Shelby County Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee
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Location: Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States
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Shelby County Cemetery
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Cemetery Details
This page was create to link the Old Shelby County Cemetery and the Current Shelby County Cemetery together.
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- Cemetery name: Shelby County Cemetery
- Address 8340 Ellis Road, Memphis, Tennessee, 38133
- GPS Coordinates: 35.22043,-89.78445
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History
More than 30,000 people, including victims of yellow fever epidemics, stillborn babies, and paupers were buried in the old Shelby County Cemetery on North Watkins between 1890 and 1965 and no one had a grave marker. In the mid-1960s the property was sold for use as a community center and some of the graves were moved to the current Shelby County Cemetery. The site of the old cemetery is now called Frayser Memorial Garden. It was erected at the community center in 2003. [1] The new Shelby County Cemetery is for the indigent of the area. There are many gravestones in this cemetery. FindAGrave only had 322 confirmed burials.
Sources
- ↑ https://www.cronememorials.com/30-000-unknown https://www.cronememorials.com/30-000-unknown accessed on 2 July, 2022
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