Campbell County Tennessee
Cemetery Records

"Cemeteries of Campbell County, Tennessee:
History in Stone" by Dorothy Bruce

CHADWELL CEMETERY, Duff, White Oak Community, Campbell County, Tennessee

Surveyed  June 27. 1993 by Sheila M. Collins Fuhr and H. L. Evan (Lou).
Typed, 1998 by Mildred Collins Wasser

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by Mildred Collins Wasser - mcwasser@fia.net

NAME                 BIRTH       DEATH       SPOUSE                PARENTS
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Marlow, Lydia, Sowders        6-21-1884   5-17-1956   General
Marlow, General               5-25-1874   3-11-1942   Lydia Sowders
Sowder, William               11-19-1918  3-30-1919                         William M & Emma
                                                                            Sowder
Marlow, Baby                  6-16-1922   6-21-1922                         General & Lydia
                                                                            Sowders Marlow
Sowder, Matilda, Marsee       7-31-1879   10-14-1919                        John & Mary Sowder
Sowder, Emma, J.              6-10-1882   ?           Duff
Sowder, Duff                  8-21-1881   5-8-1925    Emma J.
Sowder, John, G.              6-3-1845    10-14-1921  Mary E.
Sowder, Mary, E.              4-12-1845   12-29-1922  John G.
Evans, Ethel                  6-1-1907    5-14-1966   Dave Evans            General & Lydia
                                                                            Sowder Marlow
http://c-23.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/tn/campbell/cemeteries/chadwell.txt
Information contributed by a kind soul on the Internet.

Turley Cemetery

Sowders, Doc              10-4-1850    11-1-1936

http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncampbe/cemetery/listings/turley.html

Mt. Zion Cemetery

Sowder, Paul Duff       7-22-1922     5-12-1999

http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncampbe/cemetery/listings/mtzion.html

Claiborne County Tennessee
Cemetery Records

Deed for Sowder Cemetery

For and in consideration of the sum of one dollar and the matters herein after stated, we W.H. Sowder and wife Adaline Sowder, of Claiborne County, Tennessee hereby sell, transfer and convey to James Sowder as trustee, a certain tract or parcel of land situated and lying in the 6th civil district of Claiborne County, Tennessee, the same being the tract or plot of land on the farm which we now own about one mile north of the town of Arthur and known as the family grave yard or burrying ground and bounded as follows: Beginning on a set stone; thence west 75 feet to a stone; thence south 75 feet to a stone; thence east 75 feet to a stone; thence north 75 feet to the beginning.

To have and to hold the said premises to the said James Sowder and his heirs forever in the trust for the following purposes and no other. That is to say that I am desireous of dedicating said lot for the purpose of a burrying ground for myself and for all the members of my family and their descendants for ever, and for the purpose of lodging the legal title some where I have hereby created the said James Sowder trustee and conveyed the same to him in trust to be forever held by him and his heirs as such trustee forever for the sold purpose above set out. Also a convenient way of ingress and egress is hereby excepted and reserved over my said farm to and from said burrying ground herein dedicated, which way of ingress and egress is reserved for myself and all the member of my family and their descendants forever

In testimony whereof we hereunto subscribe our names on this 4th day of March, 1915.

Attest
J.R. Ketron
Gilbert Sowder
State of Tennessee Claiborne County

Personally appeared before me, J.R. Ketron, a notary public in and for said county, the within named bargainors, W.H. Sowder and his wife, Adaline Sowder, with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledge that they executed the within instrument for the purpose therein contained. And Adaline Sowder, wife of the said W.H. Sowder, having appeared before me privately and apart from her said husband, the said Adaline Sowder acknowledged the execution of said deed to have been done by her freely, Voluntarily and under standingly, without compulsion or constraint from her said husband and for the purposes therein expressed. Witness my hand and offical seal at office this March 4th, 1915.

Received for record May 15, 1925 at 10 o'clock a.m. recorded May 16, 1925.

Minnie L. Schultz Regr

Registered at the Claiborne Co. TN, Court House, Book Number 50, Page 126.

Sowder Cemetery
half mile north of Arthur west side of RR tracks

Note: The following list of persons buried in the Sowder Cemetery is a combination of names listed in Paul Johnson's "Cemeteries of Claiborne Co," and from Margret Evans', who inventoried this cemetery.

This is from Paul Johnson's Cemeteries of Claiborne Co. Paul reprinted this book and I think it is around $40, I have his address.

Information from Paul Johnson's "Cemeteries of Claiborne Co" provided by Lonnie Fink.
Deed for Sowder Cemetery and additional names in the Sowder Cemetery was provided by Margret Evans at evansmw@centuryinter.net.

Cemetery Book of Claiborne County, TN, (Mr. Johnson)

Information provided by Margret Evans at evansmw@centuryinter.net.