Located near the intersection of Gann Road and Idlewild-Hollyleaf Road near the Gann community in Northeastern Gibson County.
This cemetery is no longer in existence. A long time resident of this area, Mrs. Aultie Walker, told me that she knew nothing about this cemetery. It was located to the north of the home of the late Elbert and Dorothy (Mallard) Cole. Dorothy was said (in the Gibson County Cemeteries book by Emily Walker) to have looked for the cemetery, but found no trace of it. The Chicken Hill is a small ridge in this area. It is probably the exact location of the cemetery.
Buried there that we know of are Isabella
McAlister Swindell, the wife of James T. Swindell and the daughter of John R.
and Margaret (Tatterton) McAlister. Isabella died in a Pneumonia outbreak
of Mar. 1885. Her daughter, Rachel, Rachel's husband, James M. Carruth,
and Rachel and James's small son, all died around this same time too. They
are buried at Pratt Cemetery. Isabella was buried at Chicken Hill with her
father, John R. McAlister. Also, it is said that during a period of road
construction, some bodies were exhumed. We know nothing about this right
now. Patti Simmons has a deed for the land listing also a "Chicken
Hill Church."
Submitted by Adam McCartney
