Colonel Taylor's Cemetery
Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
Located in northeast Madison County; about 1.1 mile north of the crossroads in the village of Spring Creek, at a point on U.S. Highway 70, turn west into a private driveway, drive past frame house and at about 0.1 mile begin to walk to a high point in a field due west about .4 mile from U.S. Highway 70 to this cemetery, terraced off from surrounding ground. In Madison County Deed Book 4, page 85, this burial location is called "Colonel Taylor's graveyard," referring to Colonel Samuel Taylor, postmaster at Forked Deer P.O., the first such office in the Spring Creek area and later Jackson's first postmaster. Colonel Taylor died of tuberculosis, November 6, 1825, in Jackson and was buried in the town's oldest cemetery and his remain were later moved to what is now Riverside Cemetery. Members of his family continued to bury at the family graveyard near Spring Creek for years.
Located in northeast Madison County; about 1.1 mile north of the crossroads in the village of Spring Creek, at a point on U.S. Highway 70, turn west into a private driveway, drive past frame house and at about 0.1 mile begin to walk to a high point in a field due west about .4 mile from U.S. Highway 70 to this cemetery, terraced off from surrounding ground. In Madison County Deed Book 4, page 85, this burial location is called "Colonel Taylor's graveyard," referring to Colonel Samuel Taylor, postmaster at Forked Deer P.O., the first such office in the Spring Creek area and later Jackson's first postmaster. Colonel Taylor died of tuberculosis, November 6, 1825, in Jackson and was buried in the town's oldest cemetery and his remain were later moved to what is now Riverside Cemetery. Members of his family continued to bury at the family graveyard near Spring Creek for years.
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Spring Creek, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
- Total memorials13
- Percent photographed0%
Spring Creek, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
- Total memorials0
- Percent photographed0%
Spring Creek, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
- Total memorials24
- Percent photographed71%
- Percent with GPS4%
Spring Creek, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
- Total memorials26
- Percent photographed46%
- Percent with GPS0%
- Added: 29 Jul 2015
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2586327
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