Location: About a 100 yards behind Eddie Dale Balentine's house in a grove
of trees. Eddie Dale Balentine lives at: 908 Old Dyersburg Road, Dyer,
TN 38330. 908 Old
Dyersburg Road is West of Yorkville,
TN near
Currie community
in Gibson County.
There is no road to it. I had to walk thru the fields to get to
it and
read these markers.
Those buried there:
1. Davis Balentine
b. ?, ?, 1826 d. 8-11-1865
{He is great grand
father of Eddie Dale Balentine}
2. Mary A. Balentine
b. ?,?, 1828 d. 9-10-1876
{she's great
grandmother of Eddie Dale Balentine}
3. M. A. Balentine b. ? d. ?
{unreadable dates}
4. Martha Balentine b. August ?, 1849? d. 1-7-1860
5. Martha? C. Balentine
b. 12-28-1852 d. 1-4-1890
6 & 7.......... Found 2 other unreadable
stones and
Eddie says
there are others buried in
the ruble and one set of twins that died
at birth.
Eddie
says there is only one person that is not a Balentine that is buried there, a
young girl who died as her parents were temporarily
passing thru.
They had no money and the cemetery plot was donated.