BILLS FAMILY CEMETERY, MOORESVILLE PIKE, MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE

Evidence exist that this cemetery has be removed to the Rose Hill Cemetery though I have not as yet verified that. For now I offer very general directions: The cemetery is/was located out Mooreville Pike about three miles on the right. 
Mr Fred Hawkins offers this instruction in 1987: Go south on Mooresville Pike from Highway 50 three miles. The cemetery is on the right side of the road beside a barn on the A.T. Hill place. However, I am sure it is not the A.T. Hill place today nor do I believe the barn to be still standing.

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BILLS, Isaac, 19 Nov 1773 - 24 Aug 1821. Box tomb, War of 1812. Son of Deborah Denman and Daniel Gersham Bills, Father of Placebo M. Bills and Isaac Newton Bills; mar. to Lillias Houston Bills.

BILLS, Isaac Newton, 26 Sep 1812 - 14 Oct 1854. ( Son of Isaac Newton & Lillias Houston Bills, Box tomb.)

BILLS, Lillias Houston, 6 Nov 1773 - 26 Feb 1850. "For 27 years the consort of Isaac Bills, Esq. from whose union came Alvin W., John H., Placebo M., Sarah E., Olivia L, Isaac N., and Martha E., by whom this monument is erected as a tribute of respect to an affectionate mother."; Box tomb. (Daughter of Christopher Houston and Sarah Mitchell Houston.) [ref: Mr. Dan Woodruff a Houston descendant.]

BILLS, Placebo M., 13 Feb 1803 - 20 Apr 1828. ( Son of Isaac Newton & Lillias Houston Bills; Box tomb.)

HALE, Jane W., 24 Jan 1829 - 5 Sep 1850.

HALE, Sarah E., 9 Jan 1850.  "Infant child of Mrs. Jane W. Hale."

SMITH, Mary D., 24 Mar 1834 - 11 Sep 1856. "Consort of Dr. B.F. Smith." Box tomb.

I was unable to find this cemetery and later was advised by Bills descendent Jack Dugger who lived near here at one time that he has information that one of the last purchasers of the property removed the cemetery to Columbia to the Rose Hill Cemetery. This has not been completely verified but is probably why [Wayne Austin] was unable to find this cemetery.  See details of E-mail conversation with Jack Dugger concerning this and his Bills Ancestors. 

This was a very old cemetery with several box tombs & I just imagine in the outlining areas unmarked slave graves . I would hope complete consideration for that along with other unmarked graves would have occurred. [Wayne Austin 5 Jan 09].

This cemetery listing was listed in the various books of the past. Mr. Fred Lee Hawkins in the book Maury County Tennessee Cemeteries listed this cemetery 17 Mar 1986 on page 463. Before that it was listed in the book They Passed This way page D-144, about 1967. While some of this info came from the above books much of it came from descendents with various ancestral books having common original sources.  [Wayne Austin 4 Jan 2009]