ROBINSON family cemetery

PRICHARD-ROBERTSON-BYERS-WHITE CEMETERY
Norene Road in Norene, south Wilson County
by C. Renee Swicegood ([email protected])

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LOCATION: The PRICHARD-ROBERTSON-BYERS-WHITE family cemetery is located on a vacant lot on Norene Road, in Norene (formerly called Henderson Crossing), south Wilson County. TN.. Turn onto Norene Road from Cainsville Road (Highway 266) and drive about 1/2 mile. You will pass a brick house almost immediately and then a white house sitting further off the road. You will start up a hill that has a blind curve and the driveway turns to the left on this curve. This was the driveway for the Benjamin Prichard homestead. The house burned in 2000 and the remains have been removed. The cemetery is located about 75 feet beyond the end of the drive. Earliest marked burial in cemetery 1869 - last burial 1906 - child buried outside of cemetery 1859. Cemetery is not fenced and was in poor repair when visited 4/8/2001. The property has recently been purchased by Barney Warren, who owes the adjacent property. He plans to repair the cemetery this summer. The cemetery was catalogued by Pritchard-Byers-Robertson-White descendants: Grand-daughters of Martha Laura Robertson White - Sammie Green (Mrs. Herb) Ward and Naomi Green Hanford of Hermitage TN, Helen Green (Mrs. Claude) Glenn of Chattanooga, TN. Great-grand-daughter C. Renee Glenn (Mrs. Henry) Swicegood of Louisville, TN

First Row (from northwest corner)

Benjamin Prichard

Born April 16, 1792

Died Aug 3, 1872

Polly A. Prichard

wife of Benjamin Prichard

Born March 10, 1796

Died Dec 5, 1869

Mary F. Prichard

Born Feb 10, 1851

Died May 16, 1878

Unmarked adult size grave

Field Stone marking adult size grave

Unmarked Child size grave

Unmarked infant grave

Field stones marking head and foot of infant or small child grave

Martha A. Arnold

wife of James B. Prichard

Born Apr 29, 1830

Died Jan 5, 1906

James B. Prichard

Born Jan 11, 1819

Died Dec 25, 1892

Second Row (beginning at northern end)

Sarah A.

wife of C. L .Robertson and daughter of M. A. & L. Byers

Born May 7,1850

Died Nov 30,1867

(Stone broken and in pieces on the ground, but readable)

S. L. Robertson

Granddaughter of M. A. & Lue Byers

Born Nov 23, 1867

Died May 30, 1882

Freddie White

Aged 9 days

Died May 9, 1894

M. F. Robertson

wife of J. H. White

Granddaughter of M. A. & Lue Byers

Born Nov 23, 1867

Died Aug 26, 1896

Unmarked adult size grave

Unmarked infant or small child size grave

Unmarked adult size grave

Row three

Single tall four-sided marker located at the foot of S. L. Robertson's grave

inscription on north side:

Lucretia Byers

Born Dec 16, 1832

(no additional date)

inscription on south side:

(Masonic symbol at top of stone)

M. A. Byers

Born Aug 8, 1824

Died May 12, 1898

Possible unmarked adult grave

In a field, maybe 132 yards southeast of cemetery, on the Warren property,
is a single grave at the base of a large lone tree:

Polly Ann Robertson
Born Mar 17, 1847

Died Aug 20, 185? (last digit reported to be a 9 by Patty Compton, Prichard descendant, who recorded cemetery in 1999)

Notes on this family:

Benjamin Prichard was born in VA per census. He married in Wilson County, TN, on July 15, 1816, to Mary Ann (Polly) Campbell, daughter of James Campbell, who was born in 1766 in KY per census records.

James Brantley Prichard, son of Benjamin and Polly, married Martha Ann Arnold, June 04, 1846 in Wilson Co. TN.

Lucretia (Lue) Prichard, daughter of Benjamin and Polly, married Moses A. Byers on April 10, 1848 in Wilson Co.

Sarah Ann Byers, daughter of Moses.& Lue Byers, married Charles L. Robertson about 1866. She died at age 17 a week after giving birth to twin daughters.

Moses and Lue Byers raised the twins.

Charles L Robertson was born about 1840 in Halifax Co VA to Anthony B. Robertson and wife, Martha Mitchell who moved to Wilson Co TN about 1845.

Sarah Laura Robertson & Martha Flaura Robertson were born on November 30, 1867. Sarah Laura died at age 14. Martha Flaura Robertson married (place and date unknown at this time) James Henry White, a professor at Fall Creek College. James was born to William Henry White and Mary Ann (Jennie) Martin in Warren Co TN in 1869. They had three children: Valeira White (Mrs. Hubert) Mayo (9/5/1892 Norene TN - 9/27/1971 Orlando, FL), Freddie White (5/1 - 5/9/1894) and Flaura White (Mrs. Joseph Samuel) Green (8/13/1896 Norene, TN - lived in Faulkner Springs, Warren Co TN - died in Chattanooga TN 1981)

COPYRIGHT NOTICE: The above cemetery listings is copyrighted by C. Renee Swicegood. The cemetery listing information contained on this page is being made available by C. Renee Swicegood solely for the use of personal genealogical research, and it may not be used nor copied for any commercial purpose without the express written consent of the author. Dated 9 April 2001.