This African-American cemetery is located in the Murfreesboro Quadrangle. S. on US 231, right on Barfield-Crescent Road, left on Barfield River Road. Next to Anchor Independent Baptist Church. GPS coordinates 35.7658 -86.4428 Photographed by: Patsy Paterson 2pats2cats@comcast.net

The cemetery as it appeared on September 24, 2009

Amanda Abernathy

Sam Alexander Dec. 2, 1957 (only date)

Willie Alexander Oct. 25, 1963 (only date)

Mary H. Mack Alford Dec. 12, 1889 – April 22, 1956

Carl Amos Barnes, Jr. June 19, 1929 – Aug. 5, 1942

Eric Armstrong May 14, 1976 – May 13, 1998

Carl Amos Barnes Oct. 22, 1908 – Feb. 3, 1979
With Esther Love Barnes

Esther Love Barnes Feb. 6, 1912 – No death date

Octavius Barnes June 27, 1975 (only date)

Floyd E. Batts 1931 – 2008

Jesse Boley Batts March 9, 1908 – June 16, 1978
Viola Mack Batts Oct. 17, 1910 – Nov. 21, 1997

Joseph Henry Batts May 5, 1948 – March 4, 1979

Tommy H. Batts, Sr. Aug. 24, 1916 – Sept. 23, 1997

Sandra M. Binford Jan. 31, 1942 – Jan. 27, 1997

John S. Bracey 1891 – 1977
Mattie D. Bracey 1894 – 1983

John W. Bracy Oct. 17, 1870 – March 9, 1958
Jannie L. Bracy March 12, 1875 – Feb. 25, 1963

Mary A. Brooks Oct. 24, 1954 – Aug. 17, 2007

Lincoln G. Butler Jan. 28, 1893 – Oct. 2, 1948
Tennessee Cpt. 158 Depot Brig. World War I

Mary J. Daniel Butler, Wife of Prof. R. T. Butler
died Sept. 28, 1924

George Carney 1940 – 2005

Georgia E. Caruthers Aug. 4, 1933 – Oct. 21, 2000

Jim Caruthers 1873 – 1963

Lucie Caruthers, Wife of Moses Caruthers
July 4, 1844 – Aug. 20, 1884

Moses Caruthers 1846 – 1904

H. Preston Cason Sept. 17, 1998 ( only date )

James Cosby March 2, 1987 (only date)

Amanda Cotner 1844 – 1924

Joe E. Crawford May 24, 1920 – March 25, 1962
Tenn. Pvt 4011 QM Truck Co Word War II

Emma Crockett May 12, 1877 – April 6, 1917
Sadie W. Crockett 1905 – 1997
Tony R. McGill 1963 – 1998

Tommy Crockett Feb. 11, 1982 (only date)

William Crockett 1911 – 1994

Markeith Leeshawn Eubanks June 12, 1996 – Aug. 2, 1996

Rev. Charles Evans Nov. 27, 1880 – Dec. 6, 1952

Walter Floyd 1875 – 1964

Caner Frazier Dec. 12, 1965 (only date)

Fred W. Frazier Aug. 18, 1922 – July 9, 1964

Charlotte Goode 1954 – 2004

Ernestine Grant Dec. 16, 1974 (only date)

Tina L. Grant Nov. 29, 1961 – July 28, 2009

Arena Henry Feb. 16, 1865 – Nov. 23, 1931

John Henry, Jr. 1893 – 1974
Carnelia Henry 1895 – 1968

John Henry July 11, 1866 – Oct. 17, 1946

Edna L. Hicks 1906 – 1997

Arch Hughes April 11, 1908 – April 25, 1972

Julia B. Hughes 1938 – 2005

Jeannette Hunt 1910 – 1967

Frank Johnson, Jr. Sept. 21, 1920 – Dec. 8, 2001

Geraldine Johnson 1930 - 1999

Harry Jordan June 19, 1925 – Jan. 16, 1999

Keara Manning July 30, 2000 (only date)

Richard W. Mays 1912 – 1976
PFC Army Air Forces World War II

Josephine McGill Nov. 16, 1932 – June 13, 2005

Arriago McMillan 1983 – 2001

Jhavian Scott Miller Sept. 8, 1998 – July 25, 2002

Keith Moore (could not read dates)

Ruth C. Mosby Feb. 22, 1926 – Oct. 14, 2005

Barbara Smotherman Nadobe Jan. 22, 1948 – Jan. 6, 2003

Tommy Nelson Dec. 18, 1904 – Nov. 29, 1972

Thomas E. Norris June 6, 1973 – June 27, 1992

Rebecca Odom July 23, 1987 (only date)

Fontella M. Barnes Ramsey Sept. 25, 1966 – May 23, 1992

Mary Lizzie Reed Feb. 6, 1920 – April 21, 1972

Ernest Rucker 1929 – 1999

Mary E. Simmons Oct. 14, 1928 – Nov. 11, 1998

Annie Mary “Pen” Smith April 24, 1934 – July 18, 2002

Dorothy Smith 1924 – 2005

Ernest Smith May 18, 1963 (only date)

Emma J. Mack Smith July 5, 1917 – Sept. 30, 1998

Emma B. Smith July 26, 1990 (only date)

Martha Jane Smith Oct. 14, 1895 – Oct. 1, 1987
Robert Lee Smith, Sr. June 1, 1893 – Sept. 27, 1974

Robert L. Smith 1950 – 2001

Andrew Smotherman Jan. 28, 1928 – Dec. 15, 1993

C. R. Smotherman June 1979 ( only date)

Lucy Ann Smotherman May 6, 1893 – Dec. 1, 1947

Rodney Smotherman 1974 – 1994

Vonga Smotherman 1954 – 1991

Eula Mai Turner Feb. 12, 18i92 – Aug. 10, 1989

Clarence Waters April 3, 1903 – Sept. 26, 1971

James M. Webb July 17, 1906 – Jan. 31, 1917

Evelyn M. Woods July 4, 1952 – Aug. 24, 2003

Robert Fare Woods May 2, 1947 – July 17, 1974

Donald Young 1970 – 2002

Susie Mae Young Nov. 12, 1909 – Feb. 11, 1983
Mentioned in Rutherford County Cemetery book but not seen are:
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James Caruthers Nov. 7, 1963
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Job Caruthers Nov. 15, 1957
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Tom Caruthers Jan. 11, 1958
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Nicie Frazier Feb. 13, 1961
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Allie Hughes Oct. 22, 1912
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Frank Joyce Feb. 27, 1963
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Fannie Miller June 22, 1948
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Laura Miller Nov. 28, 1878 – July 26, 1945
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Joe Mack Reed Dec. 8, 1887 – March 25, 1929
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Dubb Smith Jan. 23, 1854 – Feb. 3, 1938
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Musie Smith May 23, 1961
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Charlie E. Smotherman 1894 – 1953
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Scott Webb Feb. 25, 1877 – Dec. 23, 1915
Filed under: Southwest Rutherford County | Tagged: Abernathy, Alexander, Alford, Armstrong, Barnes, Batts, Binford, Bracey, Bracy, Brooks, Butler, Carney, Caruthers, Cason, Cosby, Cotner, Crawford, Crockett, Daniel, Eubanks, Evans, Floyd, Frazier, Goode, Grant, Henry, Hicks, Hughes, Hunt, Johnson, Jordan, Joyce, Love, Mack, Manning, Mays, McGill, McMillan, Miller, Moore, Mosby, Murfreesboro Quadrangle, Nadobe, Nelson, Norris, Odom, Patsy Paterson, Ramsey, Reed, Rucker, Simmons, Smith, Smotherman, Turner, Waters, Webb, Woods, WWI, WWII, Young

