We wish to express our gratitude to Margaret Cummings Snider and Joan Hollis Yorgason for their diligent work in compiling the Sumner County Cemetery Book ©1981, and our thanks for allowing us to post these records.
Typed by Jan J. Barnes
2004
At Hendersonville, 3 3/i0 mi. south on Sanders Ferry Road; then 4/10 mi. southeast on Boat Dock Road. Cemetery is on east side of road beside lake. According to Mr. Walter Durham, this was the site of the old Drake's Creek Meetinghouse. We found only two stones.
SANDERS, Franklin Son of James & Hannah Sanders
SANDERS, Hannah Dau of James & Hannah Sanders
In the 1930s Mrs. Alice Guthrie said that the cemetery was then on the property of Mrs. Haratio Berry. She found the following:
SANDERS, James Esq. Born in NC 31 Oct 1761(4) - Died in Sumner County 4(24) Aug 1836
JONES, Giles 17 Dec 1810 - 17 Jul 1869
WATSON, Martha Consort of Dr. Thorn Ten Watson 17 Mar 1811 - 5 Feb 1860
Mrs. Guthrie also listed the stone of Mary Sanders which we found has been moved to the Daniel Smith Cemetery - No. 5-1.
Sumner County, Tennessee Selected Cemetery's Index
Genealogist's Companion to Research in Sumner County, Tennessee