GILMER CEMETERY, SOUTHPORT, MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE, May 27, 2002

The grave site is on the farm previously owned by Misses Willie and Sammie Gilmer. Field Grave Stones were replaced with a modern granite stone sometime after 1990.

Jeremiah Gilmer was an Elder in the McCain's Cumberland Presbyterian Church and a member of the Tennessee State Legislature.

 
GILMER, Jeremiah, 2 Mar 1810 - 28 Dec 1875, "Commanding General of the Maury County Militia, War between the States". Jeremiah Gilmer's sister was Uffie/(Effie) Gilmer Stockard Coffee, the 2nd wife of Nathan Coffee another prominent citizen of early Maury County.


GILMER, Henrietta A., (Adkisson), 1815 - 4 June 1877. Henrietta's maiden name was Adkisson. She was thought to be Jeremiah's second wife. There is a marriage record for Jeremiah Gilmer to Nancy Patterson May 9, 1832. Nancy died July 16, 1842 according to researcher Joyce Grigsby.

References: Hawkins, F. L., Maury County Tennessee Cemeteries, 1989. Lightfoot, M. P. & Shackelford, E. B. They Passed This Way, 1965. Research by Joyce Grigsby and Ronnie Erwin.
Photos and most of the information were supplied to this web site by Ronnie Erwin <reeco1@earthlink.net> 10/11/2004. Updated 7/16/06