SALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
An Afro American Church and Cemetery
Recorded by
August
2000
This
cemetery is located next to the Salem Missionary Baptist Church, which is
located
at 202 Leslie Scruggs Rd., Gibson Co., TN.
This is the church that
was burned in Dec. 1995,
and on
which President
Clinton and Vice-President
Gore worked in Aug. 1996.
The land for the church was sold to the
trustees in April 1872, and registered
in July 1872, by N. A. Coleman and
Ann Eliza Coleman - his wife.
Later, according to the church history, more
land was purchased for the
cemetery.
Tom Caldwell - ( PFC-388 Engr-Gen
Svc Regt-WWII ) 8-17-1914 - 12-15-1953
Ada L. Lacey 10-31-1877 -
11-18-1945
William Washington Lacey 7-4-1869 - 8-27-1929
Ether
V. Lacey 1897 - 1949
Rev. J. B. Outlaw 9-19-1899 - 4-5-1996
Eva
Mae Outlaw 1902 - 1978
Chester A. Booth - ( Pvt-US Army-WWI )
3-3-1893 - 7-15-1977
Albert Booth 1-10-1853 - 2-3-1925
Garrett
Herron 1883 - 1956 Nora Herron 1886 - 1956
Bennie Thomas 10-12-1897
- 1-3-1898
Patsy Skinner 1862 - 1948 Jesse Skinner 1863 - 1937
Bettie
Randolph 1874 - 1954
Wallace Lewis 1875 - 1940
George Lewis
1873 - 1921
Clarence E. Lewis 1893 - 1926
Tommie J. Lewis
1886 - 1928
John V. Lewis 1899 - 1930
Mattie Thomas Lewis
1875 - 1939
John A. Lewis 1867 - 1941
L. B. Bursey 1850 -
1938
Isaac Sims 1854 - 1928 Jane Sims 1863 - 1930
Rittie
Exum 3-25-1882 - 11-13-1924
William Davis 8-12-1893 -
1-12-1941
Annie Davis 8-12-1898 - 2-9-1925
Homer - son of
Phelan and Mattie Davis 10-13-1800 - 10-11-1918
Haywood Burrow 1862
- 1924 Sallie Burrow 4-15-1861 -
Ann Ellis - mother of Rev. P. A.
Ellis 1827 - 1887
Margaret Blakemore 1829 - 7-1868
Emily
Blakemore 5-15-1883 - 1-16-1902
Wilson Blakemore 11-2-1871 -
9-29-1887
Susie M. Lewis 1905 - 1922
Luther Lewis 1915 -
1918
Susie Anna Lewis - Mother 1868 - 1906 Lillie D. Lewis - Sister
1891 - 1920
Annie Sims 1863 - 1896
Luther Donaldson 1879
- 1963 Rosia Donaldson 1889 -
Harry W. Johnson 11-7-1937 -
5-25-1969
Sylvester Harrell 9-18-1894 - 3-5-1971
Acie
Simpson 1891 - 1971
Lillie Mae Jones 2-3-1902 - 1-3-1987
Bessie
Bonds 1898 - 1957
Emma Gertrude Boyd 1895 - 1951
Howard
Bardwell 11-1-1910 - 8-7-1989 Beulah Bardwell 12-7-1910 - 3-5-1993
Norman
Williams - ( Pvt-US Army-WWII ) 3-11-1910 - 9-8-1981
Virginia Sims
Williams 12-28-1899 - 6-19-1988
Arthur W. Sims - ( Pvt-US Army-WWI )
11-30-1892 - 6-20-1979
Henry S. Sims 1890 - 1973 Pearl E. Sims 1892
- 1984
Enid Anitia Sims 9-7-1911 -
Rachel E. Sims
10-28-1885 - 5-19-1975
Ben F. Sims 12-11-1886 - 1-21-1969
Tee
Skinner - ( US Army-WWI ) 1894 - 1981
Martha Davis 2-24-1896 -
12-8-1985
Arneta F. Davis 2-22-1918 - 8-23-1998
Alphonso
Booth 1898 - 1975 Lizzie Booth 1900 -
Louvenia Nash 9-8-1903 -
10-11-1982
Sarah L. Donaldson James L. Donaldson 8-2-1923 -
12-24-1980
Thomas R. Booth 1919 - 1989
Theodore R. Booth
10-24-1917 - 10-6-1997
Henry Lee Dance 9-19-1937 - 1-11-2000
Robert
Lee Crawford 2-8-1939 - 7-23-1984
Allgee (Algie) Lowery 4-24-1933 -
11-26-1976
Luther Carter, Sr. 2-9-1910 - 10-31-1982
Erica
Denise Peoples 6-26-1978 - 7-29-1997
Bessie Grandberry Cleaves
11-6-1906 - 4-6-1985
Annie Mae Grandberry Brown 9-14-1902 -
8-30-1988
Margie Johnson 2-10-1914 - 8-5-1945
James Fly -
no stone
Odom Fly - no stone
3 that were unreadable
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