Robert Cooke Pirtle Tombstone

Robert Cooke Pirtle Tombstone

Location:
Davidson Co., TN
When:
Spring, 2004

Description:

Pirtle Family Cemetery
Davidson County Tennessee
East of Nashville Metro Airport

Directions
South of Couchville Pike, on a hill behind a house having House Number 2355.  
On the right of House Number 2355 is a power line.  Follow the power line right 
of way up the hill for 4 power poles.  Turn west (right) into light growth and you 
will find a couple of dilapidated out-buildings.  The cemetery is behind these 
out-buildings.  There are only three graves with inscribed tombstones.  Another 
adult grave marked with field stones is located with the inscribed graves.  There 
are  two small tombstones which mark a child�s or infant�s grave, but these two 
have no dates or names.  There is evidence of several other unmarked graves at 
this location.  The inscribed headstones are all on the ground with the footstones 
still standing.

These four graves are in a line with data as follows:

S. B. Pirtle;  Apr. 14, 1860 - Feb. 19, 1931  (Samuel B. Pirtle, son of Robert C. 
Pirtle)
	Footstone;  S. B. P.

R. C. Pirtle;  Born Nov. 15, 1820 - Died Mar. 17, 1898  (Robert Cooke Pirtle)
	Footstone;  R. C. P.

Unknown Adult Grave;  Marked with field stones at head and foot

Urcley C. , wife of R. C. Pirtle;  Born April 1, 1829 - Died September 20, 1900
	Footstone;  U. C. P.  (Ursulla Caroline Earles Pirtle)

Robert Cooke Pirtle and family are found in the following census records:

1.  1850 Coffee County Tenn;  2nd District; Pages 172-26
2.  1870 White County Tenn; 5th District; No. 132-132; Page 342
3.  1880 Davidson County Tenn; 5th District; No. 44-51; Page 53B

Robert Cooke Pirtle left a will recorded in Davidson County Tenn. Will Book 34, 
Page 446, dated March 3, 1898; Probated April 5, 1898.  Robert C. Pirtle was 
married to Ursulla Caroline Earles about 1845 in White County Tenn.


Cemetery Visited By: James R. Blanks and Mark Wingate, March 18, 2004; 
Mark was the finder of this cemetery.

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Collection: James R. Blanks's Collection - Pirtle Cemetery

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