WARREN COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES -  DURHAM-SANDERS CEMETERY
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DURHAM-SANDERS CEMETERY

Transcribed by Erick Montgomery, 606 Oberlin Road, Augusta, GA 30909.  
Submitted 8/26/2000

Located in Warren County, Tennessee on a hill overlooking the Dry Branch of 
Mountain Creek, on the west side of Bluff Springs Road, about a mile north of 
its intersection with Highland Road, and about 5 miles north of McMinnville.  
I visited this family cemetery in about 1972, and again in about 1975.  It 
was initially shown to me by Peyton Greene, who married Pauline Sanders, a 
sister of my grandmother, Nadine Sanders Simpson.  Later, I went back with 
Alva Sanders, a son of my grandmother's half-brother, Will Sanders.  James 
and Juliann (Durham) Sanders, who are buried here were grandparents to my 
grandmother, Nadine.  James and Elizabeth Durham were the parents of Juliann 
(Durham) Sanders.  The land surrounding the cemetery was originally the farm 
of James Durham, who left it to his daughter, Juliann at his death.

Although the cemetery was uncared for when I visited in the 1970s, I have 
been told that it was in the path of a tornado probably in the early 1980s, 
and subsequent clean up unfortunately destroyed the cemetery.  I have not 
gone back to inspect it myself, and I do not know if there are any tombstones 
left.

I found the following fourteen graves marked when I copied the stones in the 
1970s:

1. Albert Furm, son of Wm & Manerva Sanders, born June 21, 1880, died April 
12, 1882.
2. Flora Etter, daughter of Wm & Manerva Sanders, born June 14, 1864, died 
Mar. 1, 1866
3. James Sanders, born Dec. 25, 1814, died May 17, 1887
4. Sunken grave next to James, probably that of Juliann Durham Sanders, wife 
of James Sanders, born 12 August 1820, died 20 August 1894 according to Alva 
Sanders who had visited the graves before.
5. John M. F____ was Born September the ____ 1861 and deceased Feb. 15, 1862. 
 (Partly broken stone.  This was probably a Fuston child, son of James and 
Louisa Sanders Fuston)
6. James Durham, born Jan. 4, 1774, died Mar. 27, 1855
7. Elizabeth, wife of James Durham, died July 27, 1851
8. Rosanna A. Haynes, Born Dec. 24, 1844, Died Nov. 8, 1881
9. ___ JMRA___, ___IPH WAS___, ___N SEP ___ (Stone badly deteriorated, these 
letters were on three lines of inscription)
10. Ervin F. Sanders, Sept. 2, 1847, Sept. 28, 1847
11. Samantha Sanders, Sept. 28, 1848, Sept. 12, 1851
12. Nancy, wife of Samuel Fuston, died Feb. 11, 1863, Age 69 years.
13. Mary Sullivan, March 7, 1837, March 11, 1849 (joint stone with G. M. 
Sullivan, below)
14. G. M. Sullivan, May 8, 1820, Aug. 8, 1893 (joint stone with Mary 
Sullivan, above)