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Bunches Chapel Cemetery

Bunches Chapel Cemetery is a very old cemetery in the Busselltown community of Decatur County. The earliest death date recorded on a carved marker is 1827. Bunches Chapel is the unnamed cemetery indicated on Goodin Branch on the U.S.G.S. Jeanette quadrangle (1986). At some point in the past concrete slabs were erected to mark burials without other identifying markers. There are close to 100 of these. About 30 other graves are marked with small concrete blacks flush to the ground, with fieldstones (eight survive), or by some other method. David Donahue recorded this cemetery November 29, 1996, and checked and updated it March 28, 2002. An earlier record of this cemetery was made by Margarett Alexander, Blanche Tuten, and Beth Jones on October 22, 1977. Their record appears in Decatur County, Tennessee Cemetery Records published by the Captain Nathaniel A. Wesson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Parsons, Tennessee, 1984, pp. 85-90. They noted "at least 94 unmarked graves."

NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
ARNOLD, Leacy Medora(Crowder) 29 Jun 1853 24 Oct 1904 Ephraim E. Arnold
(Buried at Parsons)		 James Alsup & Serena (Rains) Crowder
BATES, Addie (Teague)
Photo		 08 Feb 1896 17 Apr 1996 Roney Hall Bates Jesse & Laura (Mays) Teague
BATES, Dona< 12 Aug 1868 01 Feb 1938    
BATES, Emmie L. 22 Jan 1901 03 Aug 1983 Grover E. Bates married 27 Oct 1917
BATES, G.P. 09 Feb 1868 07 Oct 1950    
BATES, Grover E. 29 Jun 1899 01 Dec 1959 Emmie L. married 27 Oct 1917
BATES, Lizzie (Ledbetter) 19 Sep 1918 20 Nov 2002 Woodrow Bates  
BATES, Roney Hall
Photo		 01 Aug 1891 17 Feb 1969 Addie Gladys Teague  
BATES, Woodrow 04 Mar 1913 13 Jan 2000 Lizzie Ann Ledbetter married 19 Sep 1933
BELL, J.H. 1879 1949   "son" on double marker w/ M.E. Crowder
BURTON, Alatha (Johnston) 1802 1878    
BURTON, Albert Sidney 1896 1955    
BURTON, Althea C. 17 Mar 1902 13 May 1905   S.S. and Mary Burton
BURTON, Carl Thomas 13 Jul 1911 29 Sep 1911   T.E. Burton
BURTON, Charlie E. 30 Oct 1904 29 May 1964    
BURTON, Cuthbert Arnold 24 Oct 1895 26 Jan 1962 Sewel B. Born
m 17 Sep 1899
Altha Nola Ivy
m. 25 Aug 1917		 Thomas Edwin and Melisa Ara (Arnold) Burton
BURTON, Cuthbert Arnold II 19 Jul 1923 13 Feb 1997 Lucille White  
BURTON, Eleazer 1793 1854    
BURTON, Flossie 03 Nov 1893 17 Sep 1898   S.S. and M.E. Burton
BURTON, Frances 15 Sep 1877 22 Jul 1958 J.J. Burton  
BURTON, Hettie 55y 1m 21d 22 Feb 1916 W.C. Burton  
BURTON, J.J. 12 Aug 1875 01 Apr 1912 Frances  
BURTON, Jerome S. 13 Feb 1841 13 Mar 1879   Co E 27 TN Inf. Confederate Army
BURTON, Melissa "Leacy" Ara (Arnold) 04 Jul 1895 29 Sep 1942 Thomas Edwin Burton Ephraim and Mary Emma (Crowder) Arnold
BURTON, Mabel Lee 08 Sep 1916 17 Sep 1916   Sid and Lena Burton
BURTON, Mary 18 Jun 1858 Nov 1900 S.S. Burton  
BURTON, Mary S. 1891 1966 Sam Burton  
BURTON, Peter P. 1841 1863   Conf. Army Co E 27th Reg.
BURTON, S.S. 12 May 1846 06 Mar 1916 Mary  
BURTON, Sam J. 1886 1957 Mary S.  
BURTON, Sewell B. (Born) 17 Sep 1899 03 Jan 1994 Cuthbert Arnold Burton  
BURTON, Thomas P. 1843 1864   Cpl Co E 27th Inf. Confederate States
Said to have died in war camp buried in Illinois
BURTON, Thomas Edwin 27 Sep 1871 30 Jun 1966 Melissa "Leacy" Ara (Arnold) Ephraim and Mary Emma (Crowder) Burton
BURTON, W.P. 26 May 1883 07 Sep 1902    
BURTON, W.C. 12 May 1846 01 Oct 1902    
CHURCHWELL, J. Lester< 04 May 1910 27 Sep 1988 Willie May Bates  
CHURCHWELL, Willie Mae (Bates) 19 Feb 1916 15 Nov 1982 J. Lester Churchwell  
CROWDER, Donnie Inez 22 Sep 1897 21 Mar 1902   John Thomas and Mary Caroline (Lewis) Crowder
CROWDER, James Alsup 1828 1908 Serena Effie Rains
Mary E. Leeper		 Tom & Caroline Leacy (Johnston) Crowder
CROWDER, John Thomas 20 Mar 1859 26 Oct 1939 Mary Caroline Lewis James Alsup & Serena Effie (Rains) Crowder
CROWDER, M.E. 1852 1931   "Mother" on double marker w/o J.H Bell
CROWDER, Mary Caroline (Lewis) 31 Oct 1869 25 Aug 1902 John Thomas Crowder Wm. Henry & Harriet Ann (Mitchell) Lewis
CROWDER, Serena Effie (Rains) 1829 1894 James Alsup Crowder John Anthony and Martha (Shumaker) Rains
ELVINGTON, Allan
Military Photo		 10 Sep 1844 24 Oct 1910 Maybelle Lunsford John & Winney Elvington
Union Marker - East TN Cavalry
GRAY, Elva (Bates 01 Aug 1901 05 Mar 1979 Roy M. Gray  
GRAY, Roy M. Sep 1901 26 Jun 1978 Elva Bates  
GREENWAY, Marjorie (Burton)        
HARDER, Audry (Bates 1905 1948    
LEWIS, Peggy A. 01 Aug 1823 06 Aug 1827   Andrew M. & Sidney Lewis
LUNSFORD, Betty E. (Rhodes) 1830 28 Apr 1913 Marion Green Lunsford Also known as Betsy
LUNSFORD, M.D. 27 Jan 1889 18 Sep 1897    
LUNSFORD, Manuel 7m 13d 07 Apr 1900   G.W. S.E. Lunsford
LUNSFORD, Z.C. 8y 9m 2d 30 Jun 1900    
ROGERS, James Weaver 01 Jun 1896 27 Mar 1974 Nell Crowder  
ROGERS, Nell (Crowder) 27 Oct 1899 28 Aug 1978 James Weaver Rogers  
WILLIS, Ola Mae (Burton>        

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