Hoover Cemetery

Photographed by Matt Burke. MattBurke1@bellsouth.net

For a map of this cemetery go to google maps and put

35.810601,-86.113479 into the search box.

Matt sent me the following in 2006:  These are pics of some of the gravestones. I took no pictures of the cemetery itself-the picture would have looked like a picture of a forrest. The stones are mostly fallen, a few are staning, but all are under and around the woods. The grave of Mortie Davenport is enclosed in an iron fence, but the fence is falling down. My mother says when she visited the cemetery in the early 90’s it was in better shape and more stones were visible. I plan to go back this spring and take more photos.

Then in 2007: If you are asking for the name of the cemetery, it has no official name. It was described to me as the Hoover family cemetery, and most of the names are Hoovers. To say that it is in disrepair would be overly kind. It is not well marked, or well taken care of. It is on land that once belonged to the Hoover family, then the Davenport family, and I do not know who the current owner is. James Nile Davenport (Woodbury, TN) knows more about it-if he is still living. He had an advanced stage of cancer when last my mother spoke of him. It is just over the fence from Newburn Hayes property, very close to his home.

 

Henry Hoover

Jun 1802

26 Nov 1879

Mary Hoover

1 Jun (or Jan) 1861

?? Nov 1858

I can’t make it out?  If you can, please post comment. This stone and the one below are the same stone.

In memory of Henry W. Hoover

Died 26 Mar 1886

This stone and the one below are the same stone.

 

This stone and the one below are the same stone.

Mortie Davenport

20 Sep 1882

06 Nov 1917