While working on my family tree, I noticed most of my ancestors on my
father’s side (McNeese and Kilday) were buried in the cemetery. This
aroused my curiosity of who were the early families who settled in Lost
Mountain, how did Dodd creek, Dailey Creek, and Tucker Branch get their
names? Who was the Adam
Andes that is buried in the Cemetery? Why was there 3 large obelisk
monuments in the cemetery. From this research, this site took its roots.
Buford Reynolds’s did a wonderful service to Greene County in his book ‘Cemeteries
in Greene County, Tennessee’ which
contained a listing of most of the burials in the cemetery up to
1967. Bill Goodwin did an update in 2005, and my brother Jeff and I
have done numerous surveys over the years. Joe
Kilday of Houston, Texas provided a lot of the data on the Kildays. Barbara
Southerland (Woolsey) has been a wonderful resource in providing church
records.
There are a number of unmarked graves and stones in the old section of
the cemetery whose names have long since disappeared. The
large obelisk monuments were former
Pastors of the church.
In accumulating and presenting this volume of data, there are bound to
be mistyping, misspellings, and errors. Corrections
and additions are welcomed, and will be included in updates. I
tried to note any veteran where the information was available.
Please send any additions or corrections to the following address:
William L McNeese