Doe Creek cemetery is located on Doe Creek Road several miles south of Scotts Hill off of Hwy 114. It originated as a Kennedy family cemetery created just after the Civil War but later became a community church cemetery. The cemetery is very interesting. The core of the cemetery retains a nineteenth century appearance even though the cemetery is still in use. There are rows of graves marked with fieldstone headstone and footstones. In most nineteenth century cemeteries which are still in use these fieldstones have been removed to make mowing easier. There may be over 100 unmarked and fieldstone marked graves.

David Donahue recorded this cemetery was December 27 and 28, 1995 and updated it December 27, 2001. Alicia Adcox, Anita Webb, Betsy Patterson, and Blanch Buck recorded this cemetery circa 1976. Their record appears in Henderson County, Tennessee Cemetery Inscriptions (Memphis, R. H. Harris, 1976), Vol. III, pp. 685-688. This is referred to as Adcox et al. in the notes below. Margarett Alexander and Blanche Tuten recorded this cemetery on March 31, 1976. Although Doe Creek Cemetery lies in Henderson County, their record appears in Decatur County, Tennessee Cemetery Records by the Captain Nathaniel A. Wesson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Parsons, Tennessee, 1984, pp. 204-210.

I have photographed most of the headstones here and will continue to find those I have thus far missed. If you have ancestors buried here be sure and Email me so I can also record their names here. And also - very important - if you have additional information on anyone buried here - a spouse, parents, children, complete dates, marriage dates -- we'd love to have it.