The following was added by FAG member A.G.P.
Located on the northwest corner of State Highway 423 and Macedonia Road in Macedonia. The cemetery-has become part of a yard. The one tombstone here has been placed in a barn on this place Conversation, the present writer with Kenneth Harder (born 1940), McKenzie, Tenn., March 6, 2002; the latter's family owned and once lived on the old Bledsoe homeplace; his grandfather, Harvey P. Harder, purchased it. Mr. Harder said that when his grandfather purchased the place the information was passed on to him, as it had been to previous owners over the generations, that Bledsoe's black cook was buried among the white Bledsoes; other slaves were buried in a long row further away, behind the barn.
PERHAPS Rachel was that black cook but that is speculation only! Dorothy Putnam (Gates) Bledsoe remarried, to Joel R. Smith, January 12, 1841. She and the latter husband sold her one-fourth interest in the Bledsoe estate slaves to John K. Clark in December 1848. (Carroll County Deed Book G, page 278) At age 52, Dorothy Bledsoe Smith was living with her husband and family, ostensibly on the Bledsoe farm in civil district nine in 1850 (Census, page 172). Joel R. Smith is buried beside his first wife in Oak Hill Cemetery in Huntingdon. In February 1852, Dorothy P. and Joel R. Smith sold her dower in the estates of her former husbands, [Rev] John C. Smith (35 acres) and Haywood Bledsoe (135 acres) to Robert Smith, on the latter of which she then lived. (Carroll County Deed Book H, page 466) On December 6, 1852, a few days before his demise, Joel R. Smith resigned his position as a justice of the peace. (IBID., County Court Minute Book 1850-1856, page 217) She was appointed guardian of their son, Nathan Smith. She lived until 1867.
In John T. Bledsoe's THE BLEDSOE FAMILY (1973), page 131, the birthplace, Wake Co., N.C., is given for Haywood Bledsoe; his parents, Jacob Bledsoe (1762-1834) and Ruth Bledsoe (1763-1829). The father was a veteran of the American Revolution having served in the North Carolina Line; in his pension application, S 3012, he stated his birth was in Wake Co., N.C., August 28, 1762, the son of Jacob Bledsoe; he moved to Maury Co., Tenn. in 1819 and in 1823 to Carroll Co., Tenn. In the Bledsoe cemetery (among the remnants thereof) is a portion of a box vault, indicating the presence of at least one other marked grave. Perhaps it was that of JACOB BLEDSOE (1762-1834) and/or his wife, RUTH
Note...contributer A.G.P. added this:Family description of grave in notes from my gt-grandmother (his granddaughter Martha Bledsoe Cates who visited grave) is as follows:
Buried near McKenzie, Tennessee, in garden of his home near Shiloh Church. Home on "old road" between Huntingdon & old Macedonia.
Located on the northwest corner of State Highway 423 and Macedonia Road in Macedonia. The cemetery-has become part of a yard. The one tombstone here has been placed in a barn on this place Conversation, the present writer with Kenneth Harder (born 1940), McKenzie, Tenn., March 6, 2002; the latter's family owned and once lived on the old Bledsoe homeplace; his grandfather, Harvey P. Harder, purchased it. Mr. Harder said that when his grandfather purchased the place the information was passed on to him, as it had been to previous owners over the generations, that Bledsoe's black cook was buried among the white Bledsoes; other slaves were buried in a long row further away, behind the barn.
PERHAPS Rachel was that black cook but that is speculation only! Dorothy Putnam (Gates) Bledsoe remarried, to Joel R. Smith, January 12, 1841. She and the latter husband sold her one-fourth interest in the Bledsoe estate slaves to John K. Clark in December 1848. (Carroll County Deed Book G, page 278) At age 52, Dorothy Bledsoe Smith was living with her husband and family, ostensibly on the Bledsoe farm in civil district nine in 1850 (Census, page 172). Joel R. Smith is buried beside his first wife in Oak Hill Cemetery in Huntingdon. In February 1852, Dorothy P. and Joel R. Smith sold her dower in the estates of her former husbands, [Rev] John C. Smith (35 acres) and Haywood Bledsoe (135 acres) to Robert Smith, on the latter of which she then lived. (Carroll County Deed Book H, page 466) On December 6, 1852, a few days before his demise, Joel R. Smith resigned his position as a justice of the peace. (IBID., County Court Minute Book 1850-1856, page 217) She was appointed guardian of their son, Nathan Smith. She lived until 1867.
In John T. Bledsoe's THE BLEDSOE FAMILY (1973), page 131, the birthplace, Wake Co., N.C., is given for Haywood Bledsoe; his parents, Jacob Bledsoe (1762-1834) and Ruth Bledsoe (1763-1829). The father was a veteran of the American Revolution having served in the North Carolina Line; in his pension application, S 3012, he stated his birth was in Wake Co., N.C., August 28, 1762, the son of Jacob Bledsoe; he moved to Maury Co., Tenn. in 1819 and in 1823 to Carroll Co., Tenn. In the Bledsoe cemetery (among the remnants thereof) is a portion of a box vault, indicating the presence of at least one other marked grave. Perhaps it was that of JACOB BLEDSOE (1762-1834) and/or his wife, RUTH
Note...contributer A.G.P. added this:Family description of grave in notes from my gt-grandmother (his granddaughter Martha Bledsoe Cates who visited grave) is as follows:
Buried near McKenzie, Tennessee, in garden of his home near Shiloh Church. Home on "old road" between Huntingdon & old Macedonia.
The following was added by FAG member A.G.P.
Located on the northwest corner of State Highway 423 and Macedonia Road in Macedonia. The cemetery-has become part of a yard. The one tombstone here has been placed in a barn on this place Conversation, the present writer with Kenneth Harder (born 1940), McKenzie, Tenn., March 6, 2002; the latter's family owned and once lived on the old Bledsoe homeplace; his grandfather, Harvey P. Harder, purchased it. Mr. Harder said that when his grandfather purchased the place the information was passed on to him, as it had been to previous owners over the generations, that Bledsoe's black cook was buried among the white Bledsoes; other slaves were buried in a long row further away, behind the barn.
PERHAPS Rachel was that black cook but that is speculation only! Dorothy Putnam (Gates) Bledsoe remarried, to Joel R. Smith, January 12, 1841. She and the latter husband sold her one-fourth interest in the Bledsoe estate slaves to John K. Clark in December 1848. (Carroll County Deed Book G, page 278) At age 52, Dorothy Bledsoe Smith was living with her husband and family, ostensibly on the Bledsoe farm in civil district nine in 1850 (Census, page 172). Joel R. Smith is buried beside his first wife in Oak Hill Cemetery in Huntingdon. In February 1852, Dorothy P. and Joel R. Smith sold her dower in the estates of her former husbands, [Rev] John C. Smith (35 acres) and Haywood Bledsoe (135 acres) to Robert Smith, on the latter of which she then lived. (Carroll County Deed Book H, page 466) On December 6, 1852, a few days before his demise, Joel R. Smith resigned his position as a justice of the peace. (IBID., County Court Minute Book 1850-1856, page 217) She was appointed guardian of their son, Nathan Smith. She lived until 1867.
In John T. Bledsoe's THE BLEDSOE FAMILY (1973), page 131, the birthplace, Wake Co., N.C., is given for Haywood Bledsoe; his parents, Jacob Bledsoe (1762-1834) and Ruth Bledsoe (1763-1829). The father was a veteran of the American Revolution having served in the North Carolina Line; in his pension application, S 3012, he stated his birth was in Wake Co., N.C., August 28, 1762, the son of Jacob Bledsoe; he moved to Maury Co., Tenn. in 1819 and in 1823 to Carroll Co., Tenn. In the Bledsoe cemetery (among the remnants thereof) is a portion of a box vault, indicating the presence of at least one other marked grave. Perhaps it was that of JACOB BLEDSOE (1762-1834) and/or his wife, RUTH
Note...contributer A.G.P. added this:Family description of grave in notes from my gt-grandmother (his granddaughter Martha Bledsoe Cates who visited grave) is as follows:
Buried near McKenzie, Tennessee, in garden of his home near Shiloh Church. Home on "old road" between Huntingdon & old Macedonia.
Located on the northwest corner of State Highway 423 and Macedonia Road in Macedonia. The cemetery-has become part of a yard. The one tombstone here has been placed in a barn on this place Conversation, the present writer with Kenneth Harder (born 1940), McKenzie, Tenn., March 6, 2002; the latter's family owned and once lived on the old Bledsoe homeplace; his grandfather, Harvey P. Harder, purchased it. Mr. Harder said that when his grandfather purchased the place the information was passed on to him, as it had been to previous owners over the generations, that Bledsoe's black cook was buried among the white Bledsoes; other slaves were buried in a long row further away, behind the barn.
PERHAPS Rachel was that black cook but that is speculation only! Dorothy Putnam (Gates) Bledsoe remarried, to Joel R. Smith, January 12, 1841. She and the latter husband sold her one-fourth interest in the Bledsoe estate slaves to John K. Clark in December 1848. (Carroll County Deed Book G, page 278) At age 52, Dorothy Bledsoe Smith was living with her husband and family, ostensibly on the Bledsoe farm in civil district nine in 1850 (Census, page 172). Joel R. Smith is buried beside his first wife in Oak Hill Cemetery in Huntingdon. In February 1852, Dorothy P. and Joel R. Smith sold her dower in the estates of her former husbands, [Rev] John C. Smith (35 acres) and Haywood Bledsoe (135 acres) to Robert Smith, on the latter of which she then lived. (Carroll County Deed Book H, page 466) On December 6, 1852, a few days before his demise, Joel R. Smith resigned his position as a justice of the peace. (IBID., County Court Minute Book 1850-1856, page 217) She was appointed guardian of their son, Nathan Smith. She lived until 1867.
In John T. Bledsoe's THE BLEDSOE FAMILY (1973), page 131, the birthplace, Wake Co., N.C., is given for Haywood Bledsoe; his parents, Jacob Bledsoe (1762-1834) and Ruth Bledsoe (1763-1829). The father was a veteran of the American Revolution having served in the North Carolina Line; in his pension application, S 3012, he stated his birth was in Wake Co., N.C., August 28, 1762, the son of Jacob Bledsoe; he moved to Maury Co., Tenn. in 1819 and in 1823 to Carroll Co., Tenn. In the Bledsoe cemetery (among the remnants thereof) is a portion of a box vault, indicating the presence of at least one other marked grave. Perhaps it was that of JACOB BLEDSOE (1762-1834) and/or his wife, RUTH
Note...contributer A.G.P. added this:Family description of grave in notes from my gt-grandmother (his granddaughter Martha Bledsoe Cates who visited grave) is as follows:
Buried near McKenzie, Tennessee, in garden of his home near Shiloh Church. Home on "old road" between Huntingdon & old Macedonia.
