This is the entrance sign at the gate to the cemetery. The road just visible behind it bisects the cemetery. It is all uphill from here.

This area is just up a bit and to the right of the entrance. It contains many difficult-to-read stones and many unmarked graves. Mary "Polly" Graves (BRANDON) MONTGOMERY (2 Aug 1837 - 23 Aug 1916) is said to be buried here in an unmarked grave. Mary was the wife of David Washington MONTGOMERY and mother of Rachel and Lizzie MONTGOMERY. Rachel married - first  - James F.M. "Jim" MAJORS and - second - Edwin H. KURTZ.

This is a view from the central road looking up toward soldier's circle.

This was shot from the top of the hill and like others will give an idea of the spectacular location of the cemetery and the panoramic scope of its views.

The road is the cemetery's bisecting road, and the GILES Family plot is to the left of it - right up at the very top.

This was shot from across the road and on a road that adjoins the main one and circles the top left portion of the cemetery.

Henry GILES (son of Judge W.M. and Cora GILES)  and Vesta PASS are buried in Section D - to the left of the main road and not too far inside the cemetery gates. W.M.'s sister Dicy's son Newton PATTERSON is buried adjacent to Henry. This is a view from the road that circles the top portion of the cemetery.

The large stone to the right is the large stone that marks the GILES Family plot (see below). Family members buried within the plot have individual markers. The people in the photograph are descendants of Cora and Will GILES - two granddaughters and a great-great granddaughter. They are looking down over the side of the mountain toward Harriman below. In the plot are W.M. GILES, his wife Cora Pickens (ELLIS) GILES, daughter May (GILES) HUNLEY, nieces  Mary Christine and Billie Lee HUNLEY, and son Hobbs GILES.

The marker is in the center of a fairly large plot. May's grave is "above" it; Hobbs and his parents' graves are "below" it.

The origin of Harriman City Judge William Morgan GILES' middle name is not yet known. Maybe the proximity of the Morgan grave(s) to his is a clue. That is Will and Cora's marker directly behind the upright Morgan stone. Clifford MORGAN's marker, seen below, is the one flush to the ground visible to the left of Will and Cora's marker.

Clifford J. Morgan, Mar. 15, 1889, Aug. 29, 1923, Gone but not forgotten.

This was taken from the hilltop near the cemetery overlook and looks down to the GILES grave sites (see the arrow). Slightly visible in the background is the vista of ridges on the other (southern?) side of the cemetery.

W.M. Giles |  Cora P. Giles
1870-1953 |   1881-1961

Hobbs Giles, Tennessee, Pvt 35 Inf, Feb 18, 1914 - Oct 10, 1943, What we keep in memory is unchanged forever.

Henry Giles, Tennessee, Pvt 895 Engineers Avn Co, World War II, April 17, 1909, Sept 10, 1965 [the year is an error - Henry died in 1964] - Section D. Henry, his wife, his cousin Newt, and his cousin's wife Marie (who was also his wife's sister) are all buried in Section D near the edge of the cemetery. Henry's sister Margaret says that Will and Cora bought the plot when Vesta died.

Vesta was Henry's wife, and his grave is to the right of hers. "Vest P. Giles, March 1, 1902, August 19, 1945. The ending "a" on her given name was not inscribed.

Newt is a first cousin and brother-in-law to Henry Giles. His grave and his wife's are to the left of Henry and Vesta's. Net's aluminum marker reads,  Newton Patterson 1905, 1966. To the right is a funeral home marker for his wife (paper in an aluminum frame): Marie Henderson (PASS) PATTERSON, sister of Vesta. 22 April 1906, 20 Oct 1949. The stone visible in front of Newt's aluminum marker doesn't appear to have ever been inscribed. I don't know whether or not he and Marie ever had permanent markers.

Marie's marker transcription reads, Marie Patterson, Born unknown, Died 1948, Age unknown, Kyker Funeral Home, Sweetwater, Madisonville, Kingston, Harriman

Marker reads, "Newton Patterson, 1905, 1965" He was the son of Elbert M. and Dicy C. (GILES) PATTERSON