Anne Scurlock was one of the children of Adam Huntsman, an early politician of considerable note.)ĪUNT BECCA, Beloved Servant of J. Luke Episcopal Church in Jackson reveals that SILAS died December 14,1857. On the south slope of the cemetery are buried: The oldest tombstones marking graves of black persons in Riverside Cemetery date to the time of "bondage," i.e., slavery. A general historical sketch of Riverside Cemetery is given in the booklet, Reported Council Minutes of the City of Jackson,Tennessee, 1871-1878, pages 28-32, published by Jonathan K. Even so, a few black families had acquired lots in Riverside Cemetery and have used these for burials over the years. By the early 1880s the blacks had been largely burying their dead in Eastside Cemetery, ceased doing so in Riverside Cemetery later still they started "burying" in Mt. The best known black person buried in Riverside Cemetery is Bishop Isaac Lane, a distinguished educator and religious leader. However, only a few of them of that era and later have tombstones. Luke Episcopal Church for the antebellum period and the Jackson council minutes for the same period and for years afterwards, through the sextons' reports, reveal that several hundred black people were buried in this cemetery. One of the early donators of the land that constitutes the cemetery, Samuel Lancaster, stipulated in his conveyance to the city, in October 1850, that he reserved burial lots already sold to several individuals and maintaining a section for himself, for his family and his servants hence blacks were buried at an early date in this cemetery. Samuel Shannon, an early settler in the area, donated an acre of land for use as a cemetery for the city from his own acreage in that section where the Butler child was buried. This burial ground was called simply the "city cemetery" for many years but in the spring of 1879 it was permanently renamed Riverside Cemetery. However, it was used for only a few years and several of the remains buried there were exhumed and reburied in Riverside Cemetery and those that had not been so removed, were, several years after the Civil War. The city's oldest cemetery was located on the northeast corner of today's Airways and Johnson Street. The oldest marked grave in this cemetery, that of little Mary Jane Butler who died in September 1824 would indicate that Riverside Cemetery is the oldest burial ground in Jackson although the Old Salem Cemetery on the northeast fringe of the city is a close second as burials there date to at least 1825. Located in Jackson, Tennessee with its gate at the southeast juncture of Riverside Drive and Sycamore Street. Smith for his work to preserve and share this information about black cemeteries in Madison County and for giving permission to convert this work to web pages. TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS FROM BLACK CEMETERIES IN MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE RIVERSIDE CEMETERY, MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE (black section only)
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