Hatfield Cemetery on Stinking Creek

At least three Hatfield Cemeteries are located in and around Campbell County, Tennessee. They are the burial places for many of the branches of the Hatfield family that settled that area in the early 1800s. When this area of Tennessee was settled, no large public cemeteries existed, and families established burial places at a location on their property, and family members were buried there. Campbell County, Tennessee, has over 150 cemeteries, which have been identified in Find a Grave, and a good number of which have only a few identified graves.

The Hatfield Cemetery on Stinking Creek is on land that was originally purchased by Davis Hatfield, who was born in the late 1790s in Virginia. The family moved to Campbell County, and Davis Hatfield first appears in contemporary records in the 1823 county tax list. That was about the time that he married Mary Pauley. He purchased a 5,100 acre tract (8 square miles) in the Stinking Creek area of Campbell County in 1837. The property includes area on Stinking Creed and continues over the top of Pine Mountain where I-75 is now located. Davis Hatfield and Mary Pauley had eight children. Mary (Pauley) Hatfield died about 1838, and Davis married (2) Elizabeth Walden 4 October 1838 in Campbell County.

Dallas Bogan, who wrote regular columns "Campbell County, Tennessee and Beyond" on local history and genealogy for the La Follette Press and The Volunteer Times, included a column on "the Hatfield Family of Campbell County." He made this comment about the Hatfield Cemetery at Stinking Creek: "At this time, part of the land from the Hatfield-Bryant deed, including the Hatfield Cemetery, is in the hands of George Reynolds, a second great-grandson of George Broyles. George Reynolds states that when he was a young child, his elderly aunt, who knew the Hatfield family, told him that only Hatfields and Bryants were buried in the cemetery. It is a relative possibility that Davis and Mary Pauley Hatfield are both buried there. Other possibilities of burials are Candia Bryant, Calvin Hatfield's wife. Other clan members may also be interred there."
See "History of Campbell County, Tennessee," online at https://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/index.html#H.