on a trip to roane county, tennessee last week, i was successful in locating the burial location of daniel mc pherson (22 oct 1755 - 17 oct 1844) and in establishing that he may well have had some familial connection to the henry mcpherson living near rockwood in the first half of the nineteenth century. you can see henry | here |, for instance. (use your browser’s find function or control f to locate him on the page.)
robert bailey at the roane county heritage commission (my home away from home when i’m away from home) showed me the watts bar reservoir cemetery book - something i have somehow managed to miss until now….
the book has a grave site map of the old mcpherson cemetery on the north side of the river. out of about 72 graves, only nine are said to have been identified in 1940 when this survey was published. happily, one of them is daniel mcpherson’s and another is henry mcpherson’s. on the plot map, the two are seen at graves 44 (daniel) and 42 (henry). the graves are sort of kitty-cornered from one another. like this:
X henry mcpherson #42
X daniel mcpherson #44
the cemetery book is vague about how to get to the cemetery. robert bailey says it’s off new hope road. here’s a link to roane co, tn cemeteries on topo-maps | link |.
on that page, scroll down to mcpherson cemetery and a small topo-map will open up. i have also just learned that the cemetery is variantly called the rogers cemetery.
for a better overview of the area, use this link to a google map (the cemetery is not marked, however): | link |
McPherson Cemetery
roane county, tennessee
variant name(s) Rogers Cemetery
USGS 7.5′ x 7.5′ map: rockwood, roane county, tennessee
355001N
0844059W
and don’t forget that you can see my photo album of the other mc pherson cemetery - the one on the other side of the river. is it on the farm owned for a time by daniel’s son andrew barton “barton” mcpherson and barton’s wife parthenea hale. barton and parthenea/parthenia and many of their relatives are buried there. | link to cemetery album | their farm was located in what is now meigs county, about a mile north of the ten mile road intersection with highway 58.
for more cemetery photos, use the link to my cemetery pages on the menu in the sidebar.
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