cemetery cleanup McNairy County Tennessee
 
 

Cemetery Decoration Days 


If you have suggestions and/or additions contact Greg Shields 
These are the decoration days for the Cemeteries most  we collected from
the Independent Appeal Newspaper in 1999 and from other people. 
Bethel Springs Cemetery - Sun. May 23, 1999 Bethesda Presbyterian Church Sun. May 9, 1999 [Bethesda Decoration Day...Regardless of the date it is always on the second Sunday of May. ] Chapel Hill Cemetery - May 23, 1999 Clear Creek Cemetery 4th Sunday in June. Curtis Hill Cemetery - June 6, 1999 was the first Sunday Indian Creek cemetery in Chewalla -- 
--usually decoration day is the 1st Saturday of May. Liberty Cemetery - Mother’s Day Maggie Jones Cemetery - 4th Sun. of May Mars Hill Cemetery - Mother’s Day McCalip's Chapel 1st Sunday in June Moore's Schoolhouse Cemetery 1st Sunday in May Morris Chapel - May 16, 1999 Mt. Zion Baptist Church - May 23 Olive Hill Baptist Church was May 16, 1999 O'Neal’s Cemetery  --(formerly known as Center Hill Cemetery) first Sunday in May. Pebble Hill Church - Sun. May 9, 1999 Pleasant Site Baptist - May 23, 1999 Plunk Cemetery - Fourth Sunday in April Pounds Cemetery., Decoration Day May 15th. Purdy Cemetery - May 16, 1999 Rocky Knob Cemetery - Sat. May 8, 1999 Stantonville Cemetery - May 23, 1999 Sweet Lips - 2nd Sunday in May Union Grove Cemetery - Third Sun. May In 1999; May 8, was the 2nd Saturday May 9, was the 2nd Sunday May 16, was the 3rd Sunday May 23, was the 4th Sunday in May Send Donation in 2000 These addresses are current, to the best of my knowledge
Moore's Schoolhouse Cemetery to 
Wayne Higginbottom, 
Rt. l, 
Selmer, Tn. 38375. 


Plunk Cemetery can be mailed directly to the

Home Banking Company, Finger, Tn These appeared in the Independent Appeal Newspaper at various times in 1999. If interested you might be able to contact them for a definite date for the cemetery you are interested in. Curtis Hill Church of God, located off Hwy 64 West (turn at Rose Creek Fire Station), will be June 6. Bethesda Presbyterian Church's decoration day is the second Sunday in May, which is also Mother's Day. Do we know of anyone that has a list for Bethesda or how we would go about getting one started? thanks, Glenda Miller LaGasse Maggie Jones is May 23 Anyone that would like to donate, please mail to Home Banking Co., Finger, TN 38334 Pounds Cem., located in New Delight community rec'd lots of damage from fallen trees in the storm of Wed. May 5. Help is badly needed to clean it up. Decoration was May 15th. 
Donations are needed. 
Contact Daphene Inman
at 632-0149 If interested in the preserving Purdy Cem. send your donations (supplies or money) to 
Adamsville High School FFA 
c/o Purdy Cemetery Restoration Project.
P.O. Box 407 
Adamsville, TN 38310 
or call (901) 632-1960. CLEAR CREEK CEMETERY at Clear Creek Baptist Church in the Lawton Community, between Selmer and Adamsville, holds it's homecoming on the 4th Sunday in June. Have a great day! Barbara [email protected] 
 
 

 HENDRIX CEMETERY ON CLARENCE BARHAM ROAD.
 WE HAVE OUR DECORATION DAY WHEN WE HAVE OUR REUNION EVERY JUNE.
 OUR REUNION IS ON THE LAST SATURDAY IN JUNE EVERY YEAR.
 THANKS EDDY SANDERS FROM CORINTH.


Mount Vinson Decoration Day is the last Saturday of May .     Submitted by:Bill Rodgers

This is the survey taken in 1884.

Also there is a book on the western McNairy Co cemeteries by:
R. Harold Cox
5831 Rowsey School Rd
Bethel Springs, TN
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