of HENDERSON COUNTY Black Bottom Creek - Hwy 104 Abandoned Photos by Roger Gant see Find-A-Grave See website of Tim Childress |
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of HENDERSON COUNTY Black Bottom Creek - Hwy 104 Abandoned Photos by Roger Gant see Find-A-Grave See website of Tim Childress |
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Prospect is an abandoned cemetery in the woods east of Black Bottom Creek. To reach it drive North on 104 and turn right on Black Bottom Road. Drive across Beech Lake, and up the hill. Look for a pulloff which may be hard to spot because in 2004 tree debris was piled there. Park and follow the path, once an old road, through the woods to the cemetery. There may be several dozen unmarked and unidentified burials here. Several large trees came down in the cemetery in the May 2003 storm. One fell among the concentration of Wilson, Ballard, and Cunningham markers, though amazingly did not actually break any. The fallen tree does block access to the only marker found in 2004 which was not recorded in 1976.
David Donahue recorded Prospect Cemetery March 3, 2004. Beth White and Wilma Bolen recorded Prospect cemetery in 1976. Their record appears in Henderson County, Tennessee Cemetery Inscriptions (R. H. Harris, Memphis, Tennessee, 1976), Vol. III, p. 606. They note that there was a Methodist Church by this cemetery which served as a school house. It burned in 1925. |
| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SPOUSE | PARENTS | |||||
| BALLARD, Elizabeth H. Headstone Photo |
19 Sep 1880 | 26 Jan 1881 | W.E. & A.E. Ballard | ||||||
| BALLARD, Margie Headstone Photo |
23 Apr 1834 | 29 Oct 1911 | Zediah B. Ballard | Mother "His Wife" - Easter Star symbol | |||||
| BALLARD, W.B. Headstone Photo |
05 Nov 1860 | 27 Nov 1892 | |||||||
| BALLARD, Zediah B. Headstone Photo |
22 Apr 1830 | 20 Nov 1911 | Margie | Drury & Marcella Ballard | |||||
| CUNNINGHAM, E. A. Headstone Photo |
24 Feb 1864 | 24 Mar 1885 | Elijah Whitt & Hattie E. Cunningham | ||||||
| CUNNINGHAM, Elijah Whitt Headstone Photo |
02 Apr 1834 | 14 Sep 1884 | Hattie E. | Ransom and Sarah E. Cunningham | |||||
| CUNNINGHAM, Infant Headstone Photo |
R.B. and N.A. Cunningham | ||||||||
| CUNNINGHAM, J.A. Headstone Photo |
30 Mar 1861 | 08 Aug 1862 | Elijah Whitt & Hattie E. Cunningham | ||||||
| CUNNINGHAM, J.E. Headstone Photo |
02 Nov 1862 | 05 Sep 1865 | Elijah Whitt & Hattie E. Cunningham | ||||||
| CUNNINGHAM, Sarah W. (Rice) Headstone Photo |
13 Nov 1803 | 23 May 1862 | Ransom Cunningham | ||||||
| FESMIRE, John Wesley Headstone Photo |
08 Mar 1843 | Feb 1892 | Frances Ellen Douglas | Thomas Elijah & Malona Margaret(Dunn) Fesmire "Co H 27 Regt Tenn Inf CSA" | |||||
| PHILLIPS, Addie (Ringold) Headstone Photo |
1873 | 1905 | John Phillips | ||||||
| RINGOLD, Allen Thomas Headstone Photo |
06 Jan 1845 | 12 Sep 1924 | Liddie Frances Pirtle Samantha |
Morgan & Eliza (Azbill) Ringold | |||||
| WILSON, James Headstone Photo |
50y 2m 27d | M.J. Wilson | W.E. & A.E. Ballard| WILSON, Martha D. (Cunningham) |
Headstone Photo 05 Aug 1835 |
04 May 1862 |
Samuel N. Wilson |
Ransom & Sarah (Rice) Cunningham | |
