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BOWERS CEMETERY
From Clarksville take Highway 41-A (New Providence Blvd.) 1.9 mile to Highway 79 (Dover Road). Turn left, go 7.8 miles to Lylewood Road. Turn left, go 7.2 miles to stop sign. Turn left, go .6 mile to Reed Road. Turn right, go about 1.5 mile to Bowers Cemetery Road. Turn right, go .5 mile. Cemetery is on the left in woods.
We try to keep families grouped together. If someone's last name is listed, it means they have a separate headstone. If it is not listed, they are sharing a headstone with someone else. Sometimes
children are on the same headstone as parents.
Since we do not personally know these families, if we aren't sure of a relationship we list who they are buried next to. Any help matching folks with their relatives will be greatly appreciated.
The information is exactly as it appears on the stones. If you know the person's full name, please let us know.
WDM
NADM 1830 A 66
M DD 11 1911 Aug
EBD? 24 1830 A 28
Many unmarked graves were found and a few fieldstones with letters carved.
Transcribed: October 12,2003
From Montgomery County Cemetery Records at public library Vol. 2 Page 27 copied by Ruth A. Hayes in the early 1970�s.
There are 50 or more graves in this cemetery. Some are marked with field stones and a few funeral home markers long faded. Many unmarked. One marked with a huge flat stone.
S.M.D. j_2_1_ (broken off, but Mrs. Calhoun says 1835) A. 25
(Probably Sarah McGregor 1st wife of Noah McGregor �Goodspeed�
says Noah�s 1st wife was Nellie Allen. Mrs. Frank Calhoun of Nashville,
a descendant says the name was Sarah Allen. Another list prepared
around 1900 says Sallie Allen.)
E.B.D. then a small j sideways 24 1835 and under this a big A. 28
(so E.B. died June, Jan. or July 1835 aged 28)
Probably Elinor Allen, wife of Lemuel Bowers
E.A.D. j. 20 1835 A.44
Probably Elizabeth Morris wife of Richard Allen and mother of the
above two.
According to Mrs. Calhoun, Sarah (Allen) McGregor died of cholera and left two children. From another branch of the McGregor line I learned that Noah McGregor saved his children by giving them water--when the doctor had forbidden it. It is also said that other young children died in this epidemic--possibly Elinor�s children. It seems likely that Sarah, Elinor and Elizabeth all died in the same week of the same year -- 1835
S.M.D.D. 11 1811 A.40 (this could be Morris)
Shepherd, Bill (buried there about 50 years ago; from Mr. John B. Allen)
