Robins-Dickey Cemetery in Cordova, Tennessee

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Get directions 1167 Charles Bryan Rd
Cordova, Tennessee 38018 United States

Coordinates: 35.15821, -89.82516
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This cemetery is located adjacent to the Hills Chapel Missionary Baptist Church at 1167 Charles Bryan Rd., Cordova, TN. This Church was first located in 1885 on Church Road, about a mile East. That land was gifted by a former slave owner to an African-American, Bob Hill, for the purpose of a church. After a devastating fire, the church was relocated to it's current site.

The Robins-Dickey cemetery predated the church's relocation to its present site.

At this writing all but one stone are lying flat.

Doing an internet search for Mary Ann Robins Cobb, Shelby County TN, brought up a document that documents a visit in 1972 to this cemetery. They referred to it as the "The Old Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery."

This area is known as the Bridgewater community. The historic African-American 'Hill's Chapel Church' has a large cemetery along what is now Parkbrook Lane, about a mile away to the southwest. A smaller cemetery along Shorey Ln., in the same area, is registered to a Methodist Episcopal church in the area. These cemeteries are natural areas, which are wooded with many burials, some marked, some presently without markers.