Dennis Cemetery Inscriptions

This is a copy of the original file sent to me about 1981.
I want to thank the Tennessee Archives for this information.
It is old, but you may find some information here that would not be on the index done today.
Bev Kendall [email protected]

TENNESSEE

RECORDS OF MCMINN COUNTY

MCMINN COUNTY TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
VOLUME 1

Prepared By
The Historical Records Survey
Transcription Unit
Division of Professional and Service Projects
Work Projects Administration


Mrs. John Troutwood Moore
State Librarian and Archivist, Sponsor

Madison Bratton
State Supervisor

Mrs. Penelope Johnson Allen
Supervisor State Transcription Program
Miss Thankful Everett
Supervisor District One

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Nashville, Tennessee
The Historical Records Survey
April 24, 1940

Dennis Cemetery Inscriptions
Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee

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MCMINN COUNTY

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
DENNIS FAMILY BURIAL GROUND




Two brothers, Creighton and Mark Dennis who were born in Cocke County,
later moving to Mc Minn County, entered large boundaries of land for
this cemetery. The first person buried here, was Amanda, daughter of
Crieghton Dennis. One acre has been deeded for the descendants of the
two brothers. The location is ten miles west of Athens. Follow
Athens-Decatur Road to Idlewild, turning there to Pine Hill School Road
to the farm of Joel Dennis There are fourteen unmarked graves.

"Tennessee Records of Mc Minn County Mc Minn County Tombstone
Inscriptions Volume I. Prepared by The Historical Records Survey
Transcription Unit Division of Professional and Service Projects
Nashville Tennessee April 24, 1940"

"Masonic"
Father -
J. L. Miller
July 28, 1848
Dec 21, 1925
"An honest man's the
noblest work of God."

Martha Rogers
Wife of
Joe Rogers
June 2 1842
Apr 14, 1924
Age 79 yrs. 10 mos. 12 days

A. H. Rogers

Our mother and sister
Gladys M. Rogers
Mar. 7, 1885
June 15, 1917

Velma M. Rogers
Aug 19 1914
May 18 1935

Mrs. Elizabeth Holland Thompson
Died May 22, 1935
Aged 62 yrs 5 mos. 20 days

Lillie Mae Thompson
Apr 18 1908
Aug 10 1915
"Asleep in Jesus,
blessed thought."

David L. Campbell
Jan 14, 1828
Sept 16, 1896

"Come ye blessed."
Bryant Thompson
Aug 24, 1827
Mar. 22, 1907
"Sleep dear father and
take thy rest; God called
thee home; he thought best."

"AT rest."
Guss Action Thompson
Son of
J. P. and Lizzle Thompson
May 13, 1898
Mar. 29, 1900

"At rest." Infant daughter of
J. P. and Lizzie Thompson
Aug. 16, 1900
Aug 23, 1900

Elmer Campbell
Son of
J. C. and M. E. Campbell
Oct. 19, 1895
Nov. 15, 1895

Mother -
Isabelle McAdoo
Wife of
S. McAdoo
Dec. 13, 1839
Married May 26, 1867
"Budded on earth
to bloom in Heaven."

Christopher S. Sliger
June 25 1813
May 23 1897
"Not lost blest thought,
but gone before, where we shall
meet to part no more"




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Mary A. Sliger
1824 - 1913

Appelline Sliger
1856 - 1913

"How desolate our home;
Bereft of thee."
At rest -
Frank A. Sliger
Son of
J. L. and Sarah Sliger
Apt. 30, 1896
June 5, 1917

Florence M. Sliger
Jan 3, 1874
Dec. 4, 1894
"Blessed are the dead
That die in the Lord."

Infant son of
S. H. and S. E. Sliger
June 1, 1898
June 4, 1989

Clara Dennis
Infant daughter of
Joel and Mattie J. Dennis
Aug 13, 1887
Oct. 4, 1887
Aged 1 mo. 21 days.
"Gone to be an angel."

Mattie J. Gregory Dennis
Aug. 20, 1862
Oct 17, 1887
Aged 25 yrs. 1 mo. 27 days
"Weep not; she is not dead.
but aleepeth."
Luke VIII:52

"Come ye blessed
In memory of our Father -
Creighton Dennis
Aug 12, 1815
Dec 16, 1900
Aged 85 yrs. 4 mos. 4 days
"He took thee from a world of care,
an everlasting bliss to share."

Matilda Mathews Dennis
Wife of
Grayton Dennis
Nov. 29, 1815
Sept. 19, 1888

***** First Grave in this cemetery *****

Amanda Dennis
Daughter of
Grayton and Matilda Dennis
Sept. 22, 1848
Dec. 20, 1857

William C. Dennis
Son of
Isaac and S. J. Dennis
No. 28, 1883
Feb. 20, 1890
"Gone to be an angel."

Rachel Dennis
Born in Sevier Co Tenn
Aug 30 1817
Died in McMinn Co., Tenn
Nov. 2, 1886
"Whe was a true and faithful
wife, a pure christian, and
a noble woman."

Mark Dennis
Born in Cocke County
Feb 27 1814
Died May 20 1904
Aged 90 yrs 2 mos 23 days

Mary J. ...... can not read
Wife of
B. P. Ward
1890 - 1922

"Come ye blessed"
Margaret Thompson
Aug 4 1830
Oct 20 1909
"At rest"

Daniel T Elder
1851 - 1894

His wife
Sarah E Dennis
1856 - 1922



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Robert L. Dennis
Son of
Isaac and S. J. Dennis
Dec. 5, 1887
May 30, 1889
"A place is vacant
]in our home which never
can be filled."

Daniel T. Elder
Husband of
Sarah Elder
Dec. 13, 1851
Nov 20, 1894
"I am gone like the shadow
when it declineth; I am tossed
up and down as the ocus.

(Extra marker)

Isaac Dennis
Mar. 11, 1847
July 6 1889
"Gone to be with God"

"Meet me in Heaven."
M. E. Rogers
Wife ofW. H. H. Rogers
May 6 1888
"Dead but not forgotten"

Infant son of
J. S. and Allie Petit
Born and died
Dec 12 1899
"At rest."