Cumberland County, TN Cemeteries - Browntown Cemetery
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Browntown Cemetery
The Browntown Cemetery is located in the southwestern section of Cumberland County.From Crossville take Highway 70 towards Sparta and turn left onto the Browntown Road. Then turn left onto Deck Road. The cemetery is located adjacent to the Browntown Church of God. It was read and transcribed by Betty Castillo and Michael Boniol on June 15, 2003.


"There are many unmarked graves in this cemetery"

(Note: many, many of the Brown family descendants of Calvin and Matilda (Nash) Brown ARE in this cemetery with them. Many, many COULD be in this cemetery with them in the unmarked graves)

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Photo: Uncle Pink and Aunt Jenny “Under The Shade Tree” sandia8456

Abt 1918 in Browntown, TN
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Excerpts from Doctor Woman of the Cumberlands:  Pink had seven brothers and seven sisters.  HIs father was one of the first settlers (Browntown) buying land at $1.00 to $1.25 per acre.
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Crossville Chronicle, Crossville, TN
November 29, 2010
Residents help spruce up Old Pleasant Hill Cemetery
By Jean Clark
Chronicle contributor
CROSSVILLE — On a lovely sunlit November day over 35 people gave up their Saturday to spruce up the old Pleasant Hill Cemetery on Browntown Road. Jack Martin, descendent of the Browns who came to Pleasant Hill from Warren County around 1910 headed up a gathering of concerned citizens for this cleaning. Boy Scout Troop 170, Pleasant Hill Mayor Al Dwenger, and Martin along with many others mowed, righted tombstones, spread dirt, and cleaned up debris. Andrew and Lloyd Jr. Black, sons of William Lloyd Black Sr., who was Uplands Administrator from 1962 through 1965, came from Smithville, TN to work in the cemetery. The Blalock family spray washed gravestones. Sharon Weible, Curator of Pioneer Hall Museum garnered helpers to make and serve a chili lunch to the hardworking participants. Jack Martin wishes to publicly express his appreciation to everyone who helped and has already set another clean-up day in the middle of May 2011.

There are no records of when the old Pleasant Hill Cemetery was first used as a burial ground but the oldest section was given to the First Congregational Church of Pleasant Hill by the Wightman family. The church, now the Pleasant Hill Community Church, UCC was happy to sign a quit-claim deed with the city of Pleasant Hill in 2007 especially since the town had been maintaining it for many years. There are several unmarked stones, which may have come from the early to mid 1800s. The headstone with the earliest date seems to be from 1860, but the date and name are so degraded that it’s hard to tell.

The earliest history of the Pleasant Hill area swirls around the Calvin Brown family who came to Pleasant Hill in 1830 and populated the area with 14 children hence the nearby community named “Browntown.” Uncle Pink immortalized by the doll maker, Polly Page was one of his sons. 

The Wightman family plot takes up about 1/4 of the cemetery dating from the graves of Amos born in Amboy, NY in 1834; wife, Helen born in Kirkoswuld, Scotland in 1838 who petitioned the American Missionary Association to start the Pleasant Hill Academy in 1884. Helen died in 1922; Amos in 1923. Surrounding them are most of their eleven children and other descendents. Other early pioneers and their families, instrumental in the growth of the Academy interred here are Mary and John Frey, W. Dallas and Mary Stanley, Lucinda Simms, and of course Father Dodge, Phebe, Emma and their loyal friend Fred Williams who accompanied them from Maine in 1884.

Hassie Brown Seegraves teacher and elementary school principal at the Academy and husband George who opened a store and tourist camp west of the Hill have their final resting place here. Alexander Boyce, treasurer of the Academy and instrumental in its renovation and his wife, Sally who was a renowned weaver are here. The wife, son and daughter of The Rev. Warren E. Wheeler who was principal of the Academy, pastor of the Congregational church, and first mayor of Pleasant Hill are buried here. 

Another chapter of Pleasant Hill history was forged in the Hospital founded by Dr. May Cravath Wharton, Nurse Alice Adshead, and Elizabeth Fletcher. Although they left no heirs, their graves are lovingly tended by townsfolk. Other doctors whose last addresses are in this hill are Dr. Robert Metcalfe and Dr. John Henry Dougherty.

Persons deceased in the 1800s who are interred in the old Pleasant Hill Cemetery include Eliza Greenlee, Dorothea Frey Sienknecht, William A. Cooley, Clayton Hickman, Alice Sheckler, Mays Hubbard, and Mary Ann Page, There are numerous pioneers born in the 1800s who died in the next century and several unmarked graves. There is a new Pleasant Hill Cemetery on the southern side of Route 70, but that is another story.
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1860 US Federal Census
Tennessee, Cumberland Co, Pomona PO

Calvin Brown Age 56
and Matilda Age 44

Children: Lepinkney (19), William (17), Martha J (13), Aaron (12), Thomas N (8), joseph (6), George (5), Lewis (3) and Lucy M (1)
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1850 US Federal Census
Tennessee, White Co, Dist 14

Calvin Brown Age 40
and Matilda Age 34

Children:
Tapley Age 20
Polly A Age 16
Lafinkey Age 14
William Age 12
Peggey Age 9
Aaron Age 6
Thomas M Age 3
Joseph A Age 0