Rafter Cemetery
Monroe County, TN     

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Many thanks to Lester Hamilton for surveying this cemetery and providing all data!

INTRODUCTION

This paper was fixed by Lester Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Joe and Rebecca Roberts. Information was obtained from Dave Roberts, Elmer "Buck" Kirkland, Jack Kirkland, and other family members as well as census records. The tombstones are located about one and a half miles above Mt. Isabella Church on Rafter Road on the left about 1 mile. Rafter Community is near Tellico in Monroe CO, TN.

NOTE: Lester Hamilton found about twenty unmarked field stones. They identified some with the following data.

SURNAME	BORN	DIED	COMMENTS
KIRKLAND, Jarutia	27 Dec 1906	1941	wife of Walter Kirkland & dau of Coot & Sallie (Roberts) Shaw (2 flat marble stones)
KIRKLAND, Mamie Sue	21 Jul 1925	12 June 1929	dau of Walter & Jarutia (Shaw) Kirkland
KIRKLAND, Rastas	12 Aug 1937	20 Aug 1937	son of Walter & Jarutia (Shaw) Kirkland
ROBERTS, Joe	ca 1838	-----	husband of Rebecca Roberts & son of Israel & Jane Roberts
ROBERTS, Mary Elizabeth Smith Picklesmier	b 1859	-----	wife of James Roberts, son of Joe & Rebecca Roberts
ROBERTS, Rebecca (Allen)	aged 66 yrs.	10 Mar 1913	wife of Joe Roberts, 1 inscribed stone / 1 field stone footmarker
SHAW, Coot	25 Apr 1881	27 May 1909	footmarker reads C.S.; husband of Sallie (Roberts) Shaw
SHAW, Homer (Coot)	1908	-----	son of Coot & Sallie (Roberts) Shaw
SHAW, Ottie Mae	1905	-----	dau of Coot & Sallie (Roberts) Shaw
SHAW, Sallie (Roberts)	1880	-----	wife of Coot Shaw & dau of James & Elizabeth Roberts
SHAW, -----	-----	-----	child of Coot & Sallie (Roberts) Shaw
STEPHENS, Rose	25 Apr 1902	25 Aug 1902	"At Rest" dau of T. J. (Thomas Jefferson) & Lillie Stephens; Lillie is half-sister to Coot Shaw

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