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From: "Rick Gray" <>
Subject: Re: [TNMARSHA] Lost Cemetery and abandoned cemetery?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:13:35 -0500
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Betty, My gggg aunt Hannah Kennedy married first to Thomas Ross, then to
Francis Herron, and then to Thomas Patterson. She only had one child, Thomas
Ross, by her first husband. Her 3rd husband, Thomas Patterson, had been
married to a Hannah Adams first and they had children together.

I am not sure where Thomas Patterson is buried but I assume in Bedford
County. Hannah either moved to Marshall County to be close to her son,
Thomas, after her husband's death, or county lines just changed. I do know
that in the listings I have found that there is no grave listed for Thomas
Patterson in the Old Mars Hill Cemetery.

All the people I have mentioned lived in the Garrard County, Kentucky area.
Sometime around 1810 Thomas Patterson and his 2nd wife, Hannah, moved to
Bedford County, Tennessee.

Hannah had 4 brothers living in the area. They had moved to Tennessee
somewhere around 1807. Her brother, John Kennedy, (my direct ancestor), was
on the first petition in 1807 to form Maury County. The other 3 brothers
were Francis Herron Kennedy, James Kennedy Jr., and Thomas C. Kennedy. These
3 brothers living in the Marshall and Giles County areas. James Jr.'s family
were early leaders in Marshall County. One of his son-in-laws was the first
sheriff and one was one of the first commissioners.

Hope this rambling helps.

Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doyle Landers" <>
To: "Rick Gray" <>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [TNMARSHA] Lost Cemetery and abandoned cemetery?


> Rick I noticed a Patterson in your post. I am trying to reseach the
> Pattersons from Bedford Co. Wonder if we have any connection
> Betty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Gray" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [TNMARSHA] Lost Cemetery and abandoned cemetery?
>
>
> > Wayne, That is the Old Mars Hill or Old Marrs Hill Meeting House
Cemetery.
> > My 4th great-aunt Hannah Kennedy Ross Herron Patterson is buried there.
> > There are a few other relatives buried there too, but I do not remember
> > all
> > the names right now.
> >
> > My wife, mother, son and I visited there last year, and thought we were
> > going to carted off to jail. I know that the law says we can't but we
were
> > very close to getting arrested for trespassing. My son and I got in
there
> > and had just found my gggg aunts stone before the owner of the property
> > made
> > a stink and made us leave.
> >
> > I have intended to go back to see if I could find all the graves and see
> > what other relatives might be there. I would love to see the photos you
> > took. Mine are not very good since we were so rushed that day. I know
that
> > Hannah had some grandchildren and a daughter-in-law I think buried
there,
> > but I did not find them.
> >
> > Hope you will make a list and post the photos somewhere.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:04 PM
> > Subject: [TNMARSHA] Lost Cemetery and abandoned cemetery?
> >
> >
> >> Does anyone know about this cemetery?
> >>
> >> I recently photographed an old cemetery behind Mars Hill Church off of
> >> Hwy
> >> 129 in Marshall County. First I exited onto Hwy 129 from Interstate 65
> >> and
> >> went west toward Lynville for about 1/4 fourth mile and turned north on
a
> > rural
> >> road at Mars Hill Church of Christ. The Mars Hill Church Cemetery is
> >> immediately on the left. I went on past the Mars Hill Church cemetery
> > about 1/2 mile
> >> further. There the road bent sharp to the left but in the bend on the
> > north
> >> (right) side of the road was a grove of trees and there right adjacent
to
> > the
> >> road I found a very old cemetery that had many stones that were fallen
> >> and
> >> trampled by cattle among a few that were still standing.
> >> I saw names like Brown, Esselman, Warden, Black and many others. I
> >> photographed the stones and could make a listing if so desired.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know the name of this cemetery? It might be called it the
> > "Old
> >> Mars Hill Cemetery". It is near there. There was also a large old
> > decaying
> >> house nearby that obviously was a part of this history at one time. I
> > could tell
> >> it was very old by the architecture and it was not even painted
meaning
> > it
> >> had not been lived in since about the 1940s. All of this was very
> >> remote.
> >>
> >> I found the cemetery by using a Delorme GPS cemetery locator which can
> >> indicate the location as a lost cemetery.
> >>
> >> Wayne Austin
> >> Madison, Alabama
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> Visit the Marshall County Genealogy Website at
> >> http://www.tngenweb.org/marshall/index.html
> >>
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
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