Endangered Cemetery Report

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	McCuiston Cemetery Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee

Cemetery: McCuiston Cemetery

Other:

Sign: Yes

Street: adjacent to 201 Old Nashville Dirt Road; Shelbyville, Tennessee

City: Shelbyville

Township:

County: Bedford

State: Tennessee

Nation: USA

Zip: 37160

Status: Inactive

Size: Small

Directions: across the street from 201 Old Nashville Dirt Road in Shelbyville, TN; about 500 yards off the street on a knoll.

Type: Road-public

Location: Surburban

Terrain: Hillside

Watersource: No

Features: Trees; tombstones; underbrush

Property: Private

Access: Permission-required

Enclosure: None

Gate: None

Established: late 1700

Gravestones: 36

Oldest: 1784

Newest: 1858

Removed: Yes

Relocated: No

Repairs: Yes

Methods: Other

Restoration: Yes

Association: Unsure

Records: Unsure

Inventory: Yes

Availability: Bedford County Cemetery Book: Marsh

Landscaping: No

Paths: No

Trees: Yes4

Crypts: No

Fencing: No

Brickwork: No

Ironwork: No

Sculpture: No

Fountains: No

Roads: No

Buildings: No

Cement: Yes

Granite: Yes

Marble: Unsure

Native: Yes

Slate: No

Others: Unsure

Wood: Unsure

Materials: Unsure

Architectural: Unsure

Angels: Unsure

Draperies: Unsure

Fraternal: Unsure

Hands: Unsure

Lambs: Unsure

Monograms: Unsure

Plants: Unsure

Photos: Unsure

Religious: Unsure

Scrollwork: Unsure

Urns: Unsure

Carvings: Unsure

Condition: Cemetery destroyed

Unmarked: Yes

Broken: Yes

Toppled: Yes

Disintegrating: Yes

Buried: Yes

Weather: Unknown

Pollution: No

Vandalized: Yes

Report: No

VA: Gravestones-Overturned

VA: Gravestones-Broken

Overgrowth: Problem-Access

GroundCover: Yes

Moss:

Vines:

Drainage: Good

Problem: Apathy

Owner: Private

Use: Agricultural

Bordering: Residential

Change: Same

Reason: Housing

Visited: Occasionally

Archeology: Unknown

Habitat: Yes

Contacted: James W. Warren & Donald Stephenson who are property owner/developers; Ed Craig, City Manager of Shelbyville; Geneva Smith, Mayor of Shelbyville; Wayne Williams, Code Enforcement City of Shelbyville; Chief Swing Shelbyville Police Dept.

Surnames:

Behol, Chunn, Garwood, Jordan, McCuiston, McWhorter, Moody, O'Neal, Whitworth, Williams, Robinson

Other_Information:

Ann Moody McCuiston, Grand Aunt of President Andrew Jackson is buried here. A letter was obtained in 2001 from propery owners James W Warren & Donald Stephenson agreeing to preserve the cemetery with fencing. Nothing has been done. The property is presently being rezoned to residential.

Support:

City manager, Ed Craig citymanager@shelbyvilletn.org Geneva Smith Mayor@shelbyvilletn.org Wayne Williams codes@shelbyvilletn.org

Update:

Within two weeks of the initial posting, the was fenced, by developers, using metal post and strands of wire. Cleanup of the cemetery is being arranged.

Submitted by:
The email address found below contains an "_" as the second character. To send email to this person, you must remove the "_" from the address. Email addresses are displayed in this way so that marketers cannot intercept them for junk mail purposes.

name: BJ McCuiston, Sec. Clan Uisdean, USA, Inc

Email: b_illiejo@garlic.com

Date: January 28, 2003

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