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From: "Jewel Casey" <>
Subject: Re: [LCT] Brady Cemetery
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:41:50 -0500
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This Brady Cemetery located three miles east of Mulberry Village on
Gattistown Branch is an almost none existent cemetery. According to the
Marsh Cemetery Book there was only 2 markers.Alex Brady
Member of Co. K 8th Tenn. Reg.
Killed at Battle of Franklin
Nov. 30, 1864
Age: (Not given)

M.A. Hill
Died Dec. 28, 1880
Age: (not given)

Hill
(No dates, fieldstone)


Also:
Brady Cemetery, located one mile WNW of Kelso and one half mile south of
Eldad Road.

Alex Brady
Feb, 2, 1777
Nov. 21, 1865
&
Ruth J. Brady
May 11, 1787
Oct. 28, 1855

* newspaper item (no marker)
John, son of A. & R. Brady
Mar. 3, 1832
Nov. 21, 1842

*newspaper article (no marker)
Infant of Oscar and Maud Marshall
Died Feb 6, 1906
Age: (not given)

T.J.M.
(footmarker)

About 20 graves with fieldstones, no inscriptions.

If you go looking for these cemeteries expect to travel through some serious
underbrush, etc. Dress for hiking!!! A lot of these old cemeteries are
inaccessible. Also, beware of snakes!!
Jewel
John

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: [LCT] Brady Cemetery


> For Lola -
>
> I may have located your Brady cemetery. On the geological map which is in
the
> Marsh book of cemetery records in Lincoln County, the Brady Cemetery is
> identified as being number 11 on the Mulberry Quadrangle US Geological
Survey
> map. I have found what I think is the location on a map program I have on
a
> CD. If I am correct, it is located just southeast of Gattistown.
>
> Leaving Fayetteville on the Lynchburg Highway (State Highway 50) you would
go
> east about a mile and a half past Mulberry to Louse Creek Road. Turn right
> and go about 1/4 mile to Gattistown Road. Turn right again and go about a
> mile to Gattistown. The cemetery appears to be just a few feet southeast
of
> Gattistown, which is on the Gattistown Branch.
>
> If my map is correct, it appears to be at 86 degrees, twenty three
minutes,
> 38 seconds longitude and 35 degrees, 12 minutes, 25 seconds latitude. So,
if
> you have a GPS, you should find it at that location, or nearby.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Mel Brewer in Texas
>


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