Furgerson Cemetery

Furgerson Cemetery is a Tennessee historical marker in Carroll County.

Carroll Co, TN 104, 5 miles south of Hopewell Church

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Here are buried many who established the Cedar Grove Community following the Chickasaw Purchase of 1818. The first burial was in 1834. Also buried here are veterans of the Confederacy, and several Tennessee legislators, with their ancestors. A part of the cemetery was reserved for slaves, and Negroes were also buried here following emancipation.

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Historical maps covering this location

1814 · Kentucky (Mathew Carey, 1814) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · The Southern States and Mississippi Territory (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1822 · Kentucky (Carey, 1822) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1824 · Kentucky (Finley, 1824) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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