Bunches Chapel Cemetery
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Bunches Chapel Cemetery

Parsons, Decatur County, Tennessee, USA

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  • Get directions 4351 Bunches Chapel Road
    Parsons, Tennessee, USA
    Coordinates: 35.67437, -88.04819
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Bunches Chapel Cemetery is a very old cemetery in the Busselltown community of Decatur County, 4.4 mi. east of Parson via Brunches Chapel Rd. The earliest death date recorded on a carved marker is 1827. Bunches Chapel is the unnamed cemetery indicated on Goodin Branch on the U.S.G.S. Jeanette quadrangle (1986). At some point in the past concrete slabs were erected to mark burials without other identifying markers. There are close to 100 of these. About 30 other graves are marked with small concrete blocks flush to the ground, with fieldstones (eight survive), or by some other method. David Donahue recorded this cemetery November 29, 1996, and checked and updated it March 28, 2002.

In a conversation with a local about the cemetery, he mentioned that slaves were also buried here. The seven southern-most concrete slabs, lowest burials on the hill and near the cemetery gate (when there was a fence) are the burial locations of slaves.
Bunches Chapel Cemetery is a very old cemetery in the Busselltown community of Decatur County, 4.4 mi. east of Parson via Brunches Chapel Rd. The earliest death date recorded on a carved marker is 1827. Bunches Chapel is the unnamed cemetery indicated on Goodin Branch on the U.S.G.S. Jeanette quadrangle (1986). At some point in the past concrete slabs were erected to mark burials without other identifying markers. There are close to 100 of these. About 30 other graves are marked with small concrete blocks flush to the ground, with fieldstones (eight survive), or by some other method. David Donahue recorded this cemetery November 29, 1996, and checked and updated it March 28, 2002.

In a conversation with a local about the cemetery, he mentioned that slaves were also buried here. The seven southern-most concrete slabs, lowest burials on the hill and near the cemetery gate (when there was a fence) are the burial locations of slaves.

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  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 1955893