This is a remote cemetery about 300 yards off of Fish Pond Road with in a fenced area with cattle in Woodville Tn. Mailing address is Bethel Springs . Their are about 20 or 25 graves in this cemetery, all unmarked. Only one marker that reads F. P. Hodge Family in middle of Cemetery. Its about 75x 75 feet. My uncle Jerold Cox and myself (Bret Cox) placed the Marker there in about 1973 per my Grandmother Arlie Hodge. Her Father Franklin P. Hodge and his Wife Susan Isabel Holyfield are Buried there, many more Hodges perhaps others. I have been away from the area for forty years and recently moved back. In my quest to update my ancestry and clean up some cemeteries I see that the sand stone grave markers have been removed from the cemetery, also I was informed that the graves themselves have been desecrated by a previous land owner with a dozer. I don't know to what degree. Really sickening , all the more that it is my family. However, that is water under the bridge now, and the person who did this is deceased. Susan Holyfield is the daughter of John H. Holyfield ,Civil war Confederate veteran who fought long and hard for the Southern Cause of Independence and was wounded at the "Battle of Harrisburg Mississippi" July 15, 1864. More of the Holyfield story....... Jacob Holyfield was born in 1804 in Tennessee, maybe Stewart County. His father may have been Elisha Holyfield whom I found in Stewart and Madison counties and as a witness on a land deed of Jacob. Jacob married Sarah Holly of Georgia and they appear in the 1830 and 1840 district 13 censuses in Hardeman county Tennessee. Jacob moved just across the county line to Mcnairy county district 2 maybe as early as 1842 , for he is found in land records making deals with Fielding Hurst of that area which later becomes known as "The Hurst Nation". Jacob and family appear in 1850 District 2 Mcnairy County census , also in the 1860 census and Jacob and Sarah are last recorded in the 1870 census, passing before 1880. According to Franklin P. Mitchell's book "The Hurst Nation and its People" they are buried in Woodville Cemetery then Mcnairy County now Chester County. Chester County was formed after the Civil War . Jacob and Sarah had 9 children, 7 boys and 2 girls. Five sons served in the Civil War, John H. Holyfield enlisted at Corinth Mississippi in the 51/52 infantry , fought at Shiloh and the first Battle of Corinth , was captured and later paroled at Bethel Springs Tennessee, he was then in Co. C Newson's 18th Tennessee Calvary until he was wounded July 15 , 1864 at Old Town Creek at the Battle of Harrisburg Mississippi. John lived in the section that came to be called Woodville with wife Mary Ann Frank's and children, he died in 1904 and his wife was approved and drew a military window's pension starting in 1907. She had two sons Morgan P. and James C. who continued to live with her at the homestead and tend the farm. Mary died in 1919 . John ,Mary and son Elihu are buried at Hatchie Cemetery in Hardeman County Tennessee. Morgan P. lived at the Homestead with wife Leonia and daughter Exie , and brother James who never married. I was in the house in the early 1960s, after Leonia had past and tenets were living there helping my Father Shelby Cox with farm work . That old Homestead became known as the Old Patterson Place. Jimmy Patterson married Leonie in 1931 after Morgan P. died in 1929. Shelby Cox my father was born in 1928 , so all he ever knew it by was The Patterson Place. So just in my recent research did I put things together. So when I was that little boy in the old Patterson house, I had no idea it was the House of my Great great Grandparents John H. And Mary Ann Holyfield. The house was less than half a mile from were I grew up in Woodville Tennessee. Sons Calvin and William moved to Palo Pinto , Texas before 1860 , and died there with family. When the Civil War broke out William join the Confederacy as a Pvt. In Co. K, 34th Texas Calvary. He made it thru the war and when he died in 1903, his wife Nancy was approved for a pension, she die in 1931. Sommers B. Holyfield was living with his brother John H. Holyfield in 1860, according to Mcnairy County census. When the war broke out, Sommers join the Union Army as a Pvt. Co. A 6th Tennessee Calvary.We don't understand all the dynamics that divided families during the Civil War. After the war Sommers moved to White County Arkansas raised a family and died there in 1898. His wife Teletha J. Holmes Holyfield drew a pension after his death, she died in 1931. James Leonard Holyfield was a Pvt. Co. I in the 154 Senior Regiment, James died in 1871 from unknown causes. We know he died in 1871 because his wife Adeline Hightower Holyfield indicated that information on her pension application, she had moved to Texas and applied for a pension late in her life, she died about a year later in 1917. Son Fielding Holyfield was 8 years old in the 1850 census no further records found. Son Elihu Creps Holyfield was a Pvt. Co. E , Wilson's 21th Tennessee Calvary, Elihu applied for a pension. His wife Margaret died in 1913 ,he died in 1921. He lived in the Purdy Tennessee area. Daughter Lucrative Holyfield Riley Wilkins, born in District 13 Hardeman County in 1832 , had two husbands and 14 children, she died between 1900 and 1910 in Hardin County Tennessee. Daughter Frances Jane Holyfield Ballentine was born in 1837 District 13 Hardeman County Tennessee, she married William Ballentine in 1858 had four children and died in Gibson County Tennessee about 1892.