NEW RAMIE (BAPTIST CHURCH) CEMETERY, STIVERSVILLE, MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE
Photos of the Memorials (200+ photos of 165 listings)
Area
Photos of the Cemetery
The giant Beech Tree in the Cemetery
Map of the Cemetery Location
Known
Civil War Soldiers interred in New Ramie Cemetery
History of
New Ramie Cemetery
Black Section with listing and photos
Unusual
stone and tree
Assuming that the Cemetery
lies East to West, when you enter the present gate and slightly to your right
on the North side was the location of the New Ramie Baptist Church according
to Virginia Tyree.
About the middle of the
Cemetery and near the present North fence, there is somewhat a vacant space
where Virginia Tyree pointed out as the burial spot of Alexander/Ann and
David/katherine in unmarked graves. When Jay Dugger, (Tacoma, WA), and I were
down there on Friday before the 2005 Reunion, a half of a large tree had fallen
over that spot. I called attention to that at the Reunion and it has probably
been removed by this time.
Incidentally, although the
New Ramey Cemetery Association is a "loose-jointed" volunteer
entity, there is a $5,000 CD held by the Association and it continues to grow
slightly each year through volunteer donations at the Reunion. Carl Pigg, 4623
Pulaski Hwy, Culleoka, TN 3845 looks after the maintenance of the
Cemetery-voluntarily. He needs to be thanked for his care for it.
If I'm not mistaken, Donald Scott (Dugger kin), owns some of the land around the Cemetery having bought it at auction a few years ago.
I was told that there is
another Dugger Cemetery down the Valley View Road, (it could be named
Richardson). I asked James Glenn Dugger about this, (I was told that it was on
the old Glenn Dugger property), but he seemed to know nothing about it. I
heard that it is considerably grown up now. (This cemetery may now be
lost as I have made no progress in finding it, WA)
A few miles south of here
just over the Giles County line a man named Matthews bought the old Dr.
Benjamin Franklin Smith house in Waco, Tennessee (interred in the Daniel Cemetery on
Mooresville Pike) and is trying to get it on the National register. Dr. Smith
was my gggrandfather on my mother's side. He (Mr Matthews) wrote me wanting to know any
historical incidents or other interesting facts concerning the house.
Unfortunately, I know only a few facts about the house or Dr. Smith. We do
know that he came from South Carolina, but where, there are no records. The
"buck stops with Dr. Smith!" Martha LeBar wrote me from Pompano
Beach, FL, a couple of years ago saying that she was my cousin. Upon
questioning her, I learned that Dr. Smith was also her gggrandfather through
his third marriage. I had always heard that there were no children born in
this marriage but she told me that Dr. Smith was murdered during the Civil War
before she was actually born and while her mother was pregnant with her.
Seems that he was "quite a man" having been married three times and
died at age 51. Story is that he was shot by Yankee soldiers who were raiding
his henhouse at night but my mother told me that she thought he had been too
friendly with some neighbor's wives and that one of them shot him. Take your
choice! Jack Dugger
