the Cumberland Bledsoe, Van Buren, White & Overton Counties - tent tombs

the triangular shape, materials: sandstone & limestone - both stratified (like soapstone), and chert - for cairns and blocks 1. Caldwell Cemetery in Bells Cove, Grundy County comb graves 2. Pelham, Grundy County (2 cemeteries) 3. Stephenson Cemetery, Coffee County, E of Hillsboro Variant Names: Womacks Store Stephenson Institute (historical) Stephenson School (historical) 4. New Hope Baptist Church, Fairfield, Bedford County ESE of Bell Buckle, NE of War Trace 5. old town cemetery, Shelbyville, Bedford County Old Shelbyville City Cemetery, Elliot Street 6. Cemetery on Bill Russell Road, Bedford County between the towns of Wartrace and Normandy 7. Shofner Lutheran Church, Bedford County 2 cemeteries - 1 roadside, another 2000 feet behind/south of 1. comb graves between Shelbyville & Tullahoma 8. New Hope Cemetery, Cherry Corner, Decherd, Franklin County TN Cherry Cemetery 1280337 Cemetery Franklin TN 351443N 0855616W Sewanee 1040 New Hope Church of God in Christ 1318551 Church Franklin TN 351103N 0860609W Winchester 948 - 01-OCT-1989 Head Springs Cemetery, near Belfast, Marshall County TN ESE of Lewisburg, NWN of Petersburg New Hope Cemetery, between Cornersville and Ostella, Marshall County cairns Beechwood Cemetery, Cornersville, Marshall County cairns Mt. Zion Methodist Church, between Talley and Belfast, Marshall Co., TN cairns Goodlettesville, TN (north of Nashville)

articles related to comb graves & cists ... Brown, Ian W, A study of stone box graves in eastern North America, Tennessee Anthropologist (Murfreesboro, Spring 1981) VI:1, 2-26 [Native American burials, esp. in the Cumberland River region] Cantrell, Brent, Traditional grave structures on the Eastern Highland Rim, Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin (Murfreesboro, September 1981) XLVII:3, 93-103 [comb & box tombs] Ball, Donald B., Types of early grave decoration in Middle Tennessee, Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin (Murfreesboro 1997) LVIII:3, 117-127 Green, Lonsdale MacFarland, Triangular Burial Monuments, Center for Rural Life, University of the South (Sewanee TN 1999) White County Genealogical-Historical Society, The comb grave in The Past Finder (Sparta TN, July-September 2002) IX:3, 17 Finch, Richard C., Ashes to ashes: burial Upper Cumberland style, in Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, edited by Michael E. Birdwell and W. Calvin Dickinson (University Press of Kentucky 2004)