This project is for those who were born, lived, or died in Giles County, Tennessee. Giles County is named after William Branch Giles, a senator from Virginia who sponsored the admission of Tennessee as the 16th state into the Union. He also sponsored the building of the city and courthouse, which has burned four times. The current courthouse was built in 1909. One of Giles County's local heroe...
Giles County was established in 1806 from Montgomery, Monroe, Wythe, and Tazewell counties. The county is named for William Branch Giles who was born in Amelia County in 1762. Giles became a lawyer and from there was elected to the United States House of Representatives where he served from 1790 to 1815. He also served in the Virginia General Assembly from 1816 to 1822. In 1827, he was elected ...
Buchanan family graveyard ,Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA :
Project for those who were born, lived or died in Minor Hill, Giles County, Tennessee. Minor Hill is named for Joseph Minor, an early settler in the area. A later owner of the Minor tract donated part of it for the establishment of a school, church, and cemetery in the mid-19th century. A post office was established in 1870, and the city incorporated that same year. On November 19, 1863, duri...
Abernathy Cemetery, #2 Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave Highway 31S, left into Old Stage Road on right at foot of hill, on the west side of Hardy Road. This is the former Larkin Birdsong land, and before that the James Abernathy land. Only 3 marked graves are known here (I.M. Abernathy, Annie Abernathy, and Laura E. Abernathy). Other sources say that most likely James B. "Jimmy D...
Abernathy Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA : Find a Grave African American Cemetery. Location: highway 31N at Riversburg; turn right into African Hollow, pass A.M.E. Church Note: African-American Cemetery Note: There are two Abernathy Cemeteries in Giles County.
Aaron Brown Cemetery, Aspen Hill, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
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Elliott Cemetery, Ardmore, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Eslick Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Pillow Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: This is the cemetery of the matriarch Eliza Shelton Dean Pillow who has what is believed to be the only marked stone in this cemetery though hers is without a complete inscription. Another stone has been seen in the past, and may be present & found with a little investigation. Other family members believed to be buried here in unmarked or at l...
Everbright Cemetery, Bufords, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
English Cemetery, Campbellsville, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Estes, Berea, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Location: Go northeast on Hwy 31 Alt to the New providence Community on the left to Sumac Road on the right and turn right. Go to the 2nd house on the left (old house). The cemetery is past but behind the house about 200 yards NE out in the pasture. visited and photographed by C. Wayne Austin
Saint Elizabeth Baptist Church Cemetery, Elkton, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: This cemetery was corrected to rename it from Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery to St Elizabeth Church Cemetery Mar 8, 2011. Link to Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery: Note: African-American Cemetery
Elkton Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA :
Elkton Cumberland Church Cemetery, Prospect, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: GPS: 35.0517 degrees N X 86.8876 Degrees W instructions to that cemetery: Go east down Main Street past the City Hall & Police Dept on your right to Market Street and turn right. Go about 400 yards and when the road veers off down a hill to the left immediately pull off of the road onto the left shoulder of the road...
Elk Ridge Old Black Cemetery, Lynnville, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: African American Cemetery. Elk Ridge Cemetery is located east of Lynnville on State Road 129. The white section is located on the south side of the road and the black section is located on the north side of the road, on the bank. Note: African American Cemetery
Elk Ridge Cemetery, Lynnville, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Elkton Cemetery, Elkton, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Eagin Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Eason Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Edmundson Cemetery, Bethel, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Cemetery contents and notes compliments of the Giles County Cemetery Book published by the Giles County Historical Society. This is a very large cemetery with most graves marked with fieldstones. Location: Highway 11, left on Bethel Rd., left on Prospect Rd. on the farm formerly owned by Fred D. Edmundson.
Edwards, Blooming Grove, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Elder Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: