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Davis-Bowe-McCargo Cemetery (4-1-2005)
Shelby
County, Tennessee
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Shelby County Tennessee.
Tinsley Davis Cemetery (Davis-Bowe-McCargo
Cemetery) Pictures
Shelby Co, TN
Courtesy of Jean Meaney.
4/1/05
Here I am (Jean Rawlings Meaney) standing at the entrance to the
Tinsley Davis Cemetery. David Ragland Davis took me there on
April 1 which I find very appropriate that two ancestrally-obsessed
individuals would be prowling on that date around the squishy and a
little overgrown ground, David using his umbrella to poke holes looking
for tombstones buried (picture to follow). Of course, all
the dogs in everyone's yards were barking and the people in the houses
were looking at us strangely. The backs of all yards are fences
so the Cemetery is mostly enclosed except for the entrance where I am
standing. A plum tree on the highest point was blooming.
We found two stones, one large polished granite(?) up
against a fence but no markings on the side up and way too heavy
to move. I was surprised by how modern and large they
appeared. My relatives in Memphis looked at me strangely and
cautioned me when I said I was going to this cemetery with a man I met
on the Internet. (Of course, David and I have been corresponding
for 2 1/2 years now and have written a book together, just never
physically met, but it must have sounded strange.) But then, his
wife let him go to the Cemetery with a woman he met on the Internet.
Not only that, but we went to Edmundson Cemetery after that where we
both have many Davis relatives. That was a real cemetery and a
pleasure to see but a lot smaller than I expected. Robert Bruce
Bowe's marker is there. My great grandfather Emmett Elam is
buried there with his first wife. So had a great time.
Still trying to figure out how we can do something about the Cemetery.
Thanks and blessings,
Jean
David Ragland Davis explores the field for gravestones.
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