The cemeteries listed below can be found in Tipton County or in Fayette County near Mason. I’ve included histories for the cemeteries when they’ve been uncovered. You can click on the cemetery name to see histories and burials. (Here is an interactive map if you can remember the area but not the name of the cemetery.)
*If you are interested in learning more about funerary art and acronyms, you can read this post here. Written descriptions are available along with photos of headstones from Tipton County and from other states.
Indian Creek Cemetery
Indian Creek Cemetery, in Brighton, Tennessee, sits behind the Indian Creek Church on the corner of Indian Creek Rd and Goforth Veterans Memorial Pkwy. The cemetery has approximately 1,500 graves. It is also one of the oldest in the county which is documented by the age of the headstones. The oldest headstone in ...
Interactive Cemetery Map
Interactive cemetery map of the cemeteries in Tipton County. There are several cemeteries which I could not find. They are: Griffith & Hopper Cemetery Mason, TN County Farm Cemetery Henry Marchant Cooke Family Cemetery Granberry Gravesite Memorials???? Key Farm Family Cemetery (Peete Road) Smith Family Graveyard Covington, TN Simpson Cemetery Richland Plantation Cemetery Mount Olive Cemetery Legion Hill Cemetery Drummonds, TN Wood Family Cemetery Tipton ...
Lickskillet Cemetery
Lickskillet Cemetery is located near the intersection of Joe Joyner Rd and Campground Rd. It is off in the woods on a hill, about a 20 minute walk and, according to B. Cox, is only accessible during the winter months as it is very grown up. Email from Mr. B. Cox I visited Lickskillet Cemetary this ...
Magnolia Cemetery
Magnolia Cemetery is in Mason, TN. It is on Main St. next to Cedar Hill Cemetery. The cemetery is an African-American cemetery with approximately 100 graves. The oldest grave in the cemetery is that of Austin McNeal. Austin was born on April 12, 1844, and died on April 10, 1889, at the ...
Malone Cemetery
Malone Cemetery, located at the intersection of the Canaan Grove and Pickens Store roads, is now a black cemetery, but originated as the plantation burying grounds of Maj. Stephen W. Malone. Mrs. Malone was a Smith and some of her family are buried there. Also, there are Mrs. Ann Clement and her grandson, ...
Mount Carmel Church Cemetery
Location Mount Carmel Church Cemetery is located on Mt. Carmel Rd in Tipton County, Tennessee and is associated with the Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church. This is a large, well maintained historical cemetery, across the road from a very early, (1836) historic church. There are approximately 800 graves in this cemetery. The oldest ...
Munford Cemetery
Munford Cemetery is in Covington, TN and is on US 59. It is an extremely large cemetery with almost 7,300 graves. Some of the first settlers of the county are buried in this cemetery and headstones date back to 1816. The oldest headstone in the cemetery is that of Lucile Baltzer who died at ...
NEEDS RESEARCH – Braden-Melton Cemetery
The Braden-Melton Cemetery, aka Fields Cemetery, is between Braden and Longtown on the east side of Highway 59. The Braden-Melton Cemetery is the family burial ground of Henry Melton and Joannah Brookes Melton along with their descendants. Henry was the wealthiest man in Dist. 6 of Fayette County before the Civil War. ...
Oak Hill Cemetery 1860-1880
The small historic cemetery at Oak Hill is situated to the west of the main house and farm complex and southeast of the 1979 secondary residence. It includes three marked graves: Lucy Lyne Maclin (buried 1869), James Bullock Maclin (buried 1860), and Charles Maclin (buried 1880). Lucy and James’ graves are slightly more ornate. Lucy ...
Old Randolph Cemetery
Old Randolph Cemetery is on Randolph Road in Randolph, Tipton County. It should not be confused with Randolph Cemetery which is up the road. Old Randolph Cemetery is a small cemetery with only nine known graves. The oldest known grave is that of Martha Jane Parish Winn. She was born in ...
Old Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery
Old Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery is next to the Old Trinity Episcopal Church. It contains forty-five extant headstones, with thirty of these dating prior to 1945. The most captivating marker is a life size statue, made in Italy, for the wife of Judge John Y. Peete. There are many other large family ...
Poplar Grove United Methodist Church and Cemetery
Location Poplar Grove United Methodist Church is on Quito-Drummonds Road in Drummonds, TN. The church is a typical rural church. It has two building which have been remodeled and a large parking lot. The cemetery is across the street and to the left. It is a huge cemetery with about 2,000 graves. Thus, there is history. ...
Randolph Cemetery
RANDOLPH CEMETERY | This cemetery started in the 1840’s. The name was “W. T. Chapman Cemetery”. Now it is a community cemetery. Purchased, in 1910, from the heirs of William T. Chapman for $1.00. This cemetery should not be confused with Old Randolph Cemetery. Deed R. H. Chapman et al Deed ...
Ravenscroft Cemetery
Ravenscroft Cemetery is on Boswell Road in Beaver Tennessee. It is a small cemetery with approximately 330 graves. The cemetery is beautiful and well maintained. The oldest grave in the cemetery is that of Dr Alexander Scrymsour Johnston Alston. Dr Alston is the son of Elizabeth Whitmel Johnston Alston, who is also buried in the ...
Red Bud Plantation Cemetery
There is a family cemetery at Red Bud Plantation which was near Mason, TN. Burials in the cemetery include that of Daniel R. Whitley Sarah Wooten, Daniel’s first wife some children The cemetery is located to the south of the original home place. Red Bud Cemetery Daniel R Whitley Headstone
Richland Cemetery
Richland Cemetery about two miles west of Charleston is another early burying ground of the Somervill and Claiborne families. William A. Somervill and his family settled here in the winter of 1845-1846. Also, coming with them from Virginia were is mother-in-law, Mrs. Jane Epps Fraser Claiborne, and her sons James, Fenton, and Benjamin ...
Rives Cemetery
The Rives Cemetery is located about a mile south of Belmont on a hill across from the Tucker Temple Church. This was apparently the home site of William Rives. The only markers are to William Rives, a Mrs. Campbell, and two Smith children. Others such as Rives’ mother, Mrs. Ann River Rives, ...
Robinson Cemetery
Robinson Cemetery is among the oldest in the Mason area. Ann Ray, the wife of Michael Ray, was the first buried there in 1833. A first cousin to W. B. Robinson, Ray had come with him to Tipton county the previous year. The Ray land to the west of the Robinson place ...
Saint Matthews Cemetery
Saint Matthews Cemetery is in Charlston, TN. It is on the corner of Charleston-Gift Road and Hwy 179 near Old Charleston Cemetery. This is a medium sized African-American cemetery on a large piece of land. There are about 300 graves. The oldest of which belongs to Jim Peete. Jim died on November ...
Saint Paul Chapel Missionary Baptist Church & Cemetery
Saint Paul Chapel Missionary Baptist Church & Cemetery is an early reconstruction era black settlement along the Mississippi River. The late 20th century property has an adjacent Rosenwald School building and a historic cemetery that contains at least one grave of a U.S. Colored Troops veteran. The cemetery also contains examples of folk ...