PRATT CEMETERY
Go to Idlewild which is between Bradford and Milan. Turn at the old Idlewild Stores onto Idlewild Hollyleaf Road.
Go 3.7 miles, turn right on Lyndell Hayes Rd. Go 0.6 mile to Pratt Cemetery Rd.
Turn left and go 0.1 mile. Pratt Cemetery is on the right on top of a hill.
The following is written on rock in front of cemetery:
This land of rest owned by Chickasaw Indians James Arbuckle deeded to
William C. Pratt 1849 William Williamson deeded to Harmony Primitive
Baptist Church 1897.
Flat rock also with following written on it:
In memory of:
William Brown
1897 - 1982
&
Bertie Lee (Crocker)
1902 - 1983
ARNOLD
For their generous contribution
to the perpetual care of
PRATT CEMETERY
Case made of granite with glass front containing:
Tools - Grave Digging
Early 1900 by
J. L. & Y. F. Arnold
The following are buried in Pratt's Cemetery but stones were lost years ago:
William C. Pratt
b. abt. 1798, Orange County, NC
d. 11/1876, Gibson County, TN
Sarah Moore Pratt (William's wife)
b. abt 1806, Orange County, NC
d. bef 10/20/1871, Gibson County, TN
also buried there:
George L. Pratt (son of William C. and Sarah)
b. 10/11/1827 in Orange County, NC
d. 9/3/1909, Carroll County, TN
Margaret McAllister Pratt (wife of George L.)
b. 1/6/1828, AL
d. 1890-1900, Gibson County, TN
Their granddaughter gave me this information in 1979. She said that monuments were there when she was a child
(ca.1900), but she couldn't find them in later years. We also believe that John R. McAllister and his wife
Margaret are buried there. They both died 11/1857 in Gibson County.
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1. WILLIAMSON, Billy Tharon Mar. 26, 1936 June 30, 1938
Son of W. N. & Ila M. Williamson
2. KNOTT, Charlie E. Oct. 28, 1878 Mar. 29, 1913
Minnie Baird Sept. 1, 1883 Dec. 5, 1957
3. NEILL, R. C. Oct. 7, 1917 Oct. 12, 1917
Son of Haulie and Eunice Neill
4. BAIRD, T. S.
1844 1925
Eliza Pratt (His wife) 1859 1945
5. WILLIAMSON, William 1860 1937
Francis E. 1867 1939
Lettie G. 1895 1961
6. MCCARTNEY, Infant daugh. of Oct. 23, 1918 Oct. 24, 1918
C. B. & Ollie McCartney
7. MCCARTNEY, Eligah W. Aug. 9, 1885 Feb. 22, 1955 Photo Photo 2
Florence M. May 6, 1891 Feb. 7, 1972
8. MCCARTNEY, Frances E. Nov. 4, 1892 Sept 28, 1895
Dau. Of W. J. & J. A. McCartney (Birthdate wrong, should be 1882)
9. MCCARTNEY, William J. Nov. 1, 1856 Dec. 15, 1925 Photo
Julia Ann Feb. 7, 1859 Dec. 11, 1951
10. SWINDELL, S. J. Jan. 31, 1855 Oct. 15, 1885
Wife of J. H. Swindell
11. MAYO, James F. June 28, 1917 Apr. 29, 1947
12. MAYO, Willie May Jan. 31, 1896 Mar. 29, 1942
13. ARNOLD, Harriet Apr. 3, 1858 Nov. 13, 1936
Mother
14. ARNOLD, Nevada Apr. 27, 1898 Feb. 4, 1919
15. ETHERIDGE, Aden F. 1878 1925
16. HEDGECOCK, Ethel
1883 1930
John E.
1877 1954
17. PRATT, S. C. Aged 53 years Nov. 3, 1895
J. S. Aged about 38 years Oct. 12, 1874
18. KNOTT, Martha Oct. 11, 1865 Feb. 26, 1909
Wife of J. M. Knott
19. KNOTT, J. M. Feb. 22, 1860 May 12, 1925
20. KNOTT, J. J. Aug. 5, 1833 Apr. 17, 1913
Elizabeth Aug. 15, 1836 Apr. 16, 1913
21. TEAGUE, Jessie D.
1885 1951
Elmina E.
1881 1956
22. MARTIN, Macy
1901 1937
23. CARRUTH, J. L. Jan. 3, 1880 Aug. 29, 1932
Myrtle Sept 10, 1883 Jan. 29, 1945
24. CARRUTH, Noriene Apr. 7, 1909 July 18, 1911
Daugh. of J. L. & M. L. Carruth
25. CARRUTH, Alton June 29, 1904 Dec. 26, 1904
Son of J. L. & M. L. Carruth
26. WILLIAMSON, H. M.
No dates
27. ARNOLD, Jas. L. (Buried at Harmony Cem.) 1868
Lockie
1876 1939
28. ARNOLD, Ernest Nov. 13, 1897 Dec. 22, 1921
29. BROWNING, Newman July 20, 1899 June 27, 1964
Bessie Hedgecock Mar. 14, 1901 Sept 21, 1963
30. BROWNING, E. B. June 8, 1864 Jan. 7, 1929
W. P. Jan. 21, 1859 Nov. 7, 1909
31. BROWNING, Pauline July 24, 1906 May 29, 1908
Daugh. of W. P. & E. B. Browning
32. BROWNING, Lorine Jan. 27, 1908 Feb. 8, 1909
Daugh. of W. P. & E. B. Browning
33. BROWNING, Lucy E. Aug. 25, 1889 Oct. 6, 1901
Daugh. of W. P. & E. B. Browning
34. BROWNING, Claudie L. Nov. 20, 1894 Jan. 18, 1896
Son of W. P. & E. B. Browning
35. BROWNING, Edwin D. Jan. 21, 1843 Mar. 1, 1873
Aged 30 yrs. 1 mo. 10 days
Margaret J. Dec. 19, 1843 Nov. 9, 1877
Aged 33 yrs. 10 mo. 20 days
36. ARNOLD, Nancy Amanda 1853 1937
William H.
1852 1915
Three graves with small rocks, no writing on them.
Two sandstone rocks.
37. MCALISTER, T. S. Oct. 8, 1831 June 6, 1881
Husb. of P. J.
38. MCALISTER, Paralee J. Aug. 4, 1828 Apr. 30, 1884
Wife of T. S. Aged 55 yrs. 8 mos. 26 days
39. MCALISTER, Nancy Johnson 1849 1876
James K. 1846 1921
Malinda Hilliard 1851 1932
40. MCALISTER, Huse Nov. 15, 1884 Oct. 16, 1933
Ader Blanch May 6, 1886 Feb. 5, 1935
41. KATTERMANN, Arnold William Oct. 22, 1921 Feb. 24, 1998
Ruth Sorrell June 17, 1922 Aug. 25, 1993
Married Mar. 18, 1942
42. DETIE, Granville W. June 1, 1904 Feb. 22, 1994
43. TREADWELL, Robert Dec. 17, 1927 Jan. 18, 1998
SP3 US Army
Betty June 4, 1936 Jan. 22, 1992
44. DUBLIN, William Thomas Jan. 13, 1918 Aug 3, 1997
Helen Marie Bynum Jun. 29,
1924 May 17, 1998 (from Bodkin Funeral Home)
45. WILLS, Janet Ann Oct. 24, 1949 July 3, 1996
46. DETIE, William H. Jan. 21, 1924 Oct, 12, 2006
Cox US Navy WWII
Wanda G. Aug. 24, 1920 Feb. 3, 1996
47. MARTIN, Nancy C. Sept. 4, 1839 Dec. 26, 1873
Daugh. Of J. R. & M. McAlister
& wife of J. C. Martin
Two rocks for this person, an old one with the above on it and a newer one with her husband.
48. MARTIN, J. C. Dec. 29, 1830 Apr. 4, 1916
Nancy C. Sept. 4, 1839 Dec. 26, 1873
49. SWINDELL, Drusilla Aug. 7, 1836 Oct. 14, 1905
Wife of Joshua Swindell
50. SWINDELL, Joshua Jan. 25, 1823 Apr. 2, 1891
(Masonic rock)
51. SWINDELL, Drucy E. Jan. 3, 1890 Mar. 29, 1890
52. SWINDELL, Syntha A. Dec. 7, 1863 Nov. 6, 1895
Wife of H. J. Swindell
53. SWINDELL, H. J. Jan. 23, 1859 Nov. 2, 1923
54. BRADBERRY, Lizzie M. Aug. 23, 1878 Dec. 20, 1932
Wife of E. F. Bradberry
55. HAYES, Henry L. July 25, 1925 Apr. 29, 1996
Jewell M. June 14, 1928 Dec. 31, 2006
56. SWINDELL, O. F. (Opha) Apr. 25, 1884 June 8, 1950
Cecil (his wife) May 27, 1881 June 13, 1925
57.SWINDELL, A. J. Sept 15, 1885 Oct. 6, 1918
Lela (his wife) Dec. 7, 1885 Dec. 29, 1965
58. Stone broken off - unreadable
59. MCALISTER, George W. No birthdate July 1, 1879
Husband of M. E. McAlister Aged about 28 yrs.
60. KNOTT, Arie F.
1836 Oct. 15, 1857
61. MORRIS, E. I. Jan. 28, 1901 Jan. 29, 1901
Son of M. B. & E. J. Morris
62. PARIS, Tommie
1862 1899
Lou
1869 1928
63. BELEW, Howard L. Oct. 8, 1915 Dec. 21, 1915
Son of Bud & Dona Belew
64. BELEW, Roscoe Mar. 3, 1912 Feb. 21, 1914
Son of Bud & Dona Belew
65. MORRIS, S. C. (Sally) Oct. 24, 1856 Feb. 21, 1915
Wife of C. W. Morris Aged 68 yrs. 3 mos. 27 days
66. MORRIS, C. W. (Charlie) Nov. 23, 1864 July 28, 1902
Husb. of S. C. Morris
67. MORRIS, John Henry July 6, 1880 Nov. 28, 1901
Son of S. C. & C. W. Morris
68. ARNOLD, Joel
1825 1868 Photo
Sarah Paris 1828 1900 Photo
69. CRUTCHFIELD, Ada B. 1876 1953
George 1878 1952
70. WILLIAMS, Emily R. Feb. 8, 1857 Apr. 30, 1933
Wife of William J. Williams & daugh. of Joel & Sarah Arnold
71. ARNOLD, Erbie Dec. 4, 1894 Aug. 29, 1895
Son of Y. F. & Bell Arnold
72. ARNOLD, Lafayette Apr. 12, 1901 July 20, 1902
Son of Y. F. & Bell Arnold
73. PARIS, Mary
1856 1940
Joseph E.
1860 1936
74. PARIS, Robert E. (Only one date - Aug. 23, 1935)
TN Pvt. U. S. Army
75. SMITH, Ruby
1874 1917
76. SMITH, Martha May 22, 1832 Oct. 24, 1909
Robert Apr. 27, 1852 Nov. 12, 1904
77. AUTREY, Joe Elijah Mar. 17, 1951
Kimberly Dawn Hayes Feb. 2, 1967 Oct. 8, 2001
78. MURPHY, Edith Mar. 16, 1917 Nov. 8, 1998
79. WARD, Elder Wm. Ray May 7, 1931
Ola Mae Oct. 5, 1934 Nov. 23, 2008
80. TREADWELL, Jerry Dan Apr. 17, 1945 Jan. 9, 2007
81. DETIE, Miles Wayne Sept. 15, 1947 Dec. 11, 2007 SP5 US Army Viet Nam Beloved Grandfather
82. HAYES, Raymond E. Aug. 16, 1936 Sept 24, 2007
83. RHODES, William Francis Jan. 23, 1939 July 2, 2005
84. JOHNSON, James "Jim" William May 18, 1945
son - James "Jimmy" Guy & daughter-Tonya Dawn
"The day that my wife died I gently held her in my arms. Now great
spirit hold her in yours."
PaHaya NeMehotatse
Jackie
Lynn
Feb. 14, 1947 May 19, 2003
85. HOLT, James Nelson May 29, 1939 Married Nov 14, 1958
Annie Ruth Apr 12, 1939 Jan 19, 2011 Children: James William, Debra Ann, Cynthia Gail, Wanda Sue, Terry Ray
86. HOLT, James William "Bubba"
Mar 16, 1959 Jun 22, 2009
87. MCCASLIN, Robert Larry
Feb 20, 1948 Nov 21, 2009 "Gone to be
with Sammy his true love"
Many unmarked graves throughout. The following are buried there but have no rock:
SWINDELL, James T. About 1820 1905
CARRUTH, James M. About 1837 Mar. 1885
Rachel Swindell About 1851 Mar. 1885
BAIRD, Jim
Louisa Tennessee McCartney Apr. 23, 1853 ?
***MCCARTNEY, Mary Jane "Mollie" Richards Rodgers b.???, d. Dec. 1916
From "The Ancestors and Descendants of William Andrew
McCartney" by Monda McCartney Holt, published 1997.
***Mary Jane was previously married to Francis Marion ROGERS, son of
Cantrell B. and Frances ROGERS, Francis Marion was a Baptist minister,
and a carpenter, and they had six children. They located near the
Campgrou(n)d
community where Francis Marion became a member of
Pleasant Green Masonic Lodge and was later past master of that
Lodge. There is a story told about the burial of Mary Jane. She
died during the big snow of 1917 and because of severe weather the
funeral procession was not able to reach Poplar Springs Cemetery where
her two husbands were buried and where she wished to be laid to rest.
On the way, the snow was so deep and the drifts even deeper, they had
to turn back and choose a site at Pratt's Cemetery. Men from her
family, and neighbors alike, built a huge fire to melt the snow and
thaw the frozen ground enough to dig a grave at "Pratt's". This had
become a time consuming process to wait until the snow was melted, the
ground thawed and the ashes removed before the digging of the grave
could be done. It had been a long cold, hard day and was midnight or
after when Mary Jane was finally laid to rest. Her family buried
her there with good intentions to remove her remains at a later date
and rebury them at Poplar Springs Cemetery near one of her late
husbands, as she had wished. However, the grave site had not been
marked sufficiently and was lost among other fresh unmarked graves. Her
body was never removed and it is not known exactly where she is buried at "Pratt's".
Adam McCartney sent off for the death certificate of Mary Jane Richards
Rodgers McCartney in 1917, and it said there was no Mary Jane
McCartney's death that year. Instead they had a Mollie for 1916 and it said she was
buried at Poplar Springs. I believe this to be her and place of burial was really Pratt.
Submitted by Adam McCartney
Transcribed by Patti Simmons on 4/25/98. I apologize for any errors as some of the tombstones were very hard to read.