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gleaves > Crockett-Gleaves Cemetery
ca 1824
Brentwood Historical Commission
Williamson County, Tennessee

gleaves > Mary Jane and her mother represent women with memories of Pioneer parents, crossing the Cumberland Gap, with axe and ox cart, making trails and clearing land until interupted by Andrew Jackson to fight in New Orleans. The peace was soon over with occupying soldiers, raiding smoke houses, pantries, and barns. The visions of agrarian homeland was gone, replaced by dead and wounded. There never was help or a type of a marshall plan. Women shouldered responsibility in years of reconstruction resulting in matriarchs that reigned in unpainted houses.

gleaves > A man of deep honesty, a gentleman with quick dry humor and universally liked, without ever a bad word. His mother placed him and others against a cellar wall that shook as big guns atop Ropers Knob roared. One mile from here stands a brick church, a school room above. Slates were used for writing, excellence in reading and spelling using a Bible and Almanac as text, forging character.

gleaves > Facing the rising sun and a mile away stands a great Indian mound of Smithsonian study built by wise Indians in a beautiful valley. Time of great depression and a few years before doctors had the treatment for rh blood problems. Heaven is her home.

gleaves > In memory of
Mary
Wife of Joseph Crockett
Born in Wythe Co. Va. Oct. 23rd, 1793 and
Died in Williamson Co Oct. 26th, 1867
Mary & Joseph Crockett were the parents of Jane Crockett Gleaves;
Mary Crockett was the daughter of Andrew and Sarah Ellilott Crockett.
Joseph Crockett was the son of John and Elizabeth Montgomery Crockett.
Both John and Andrew were the sons of John Samuel and Esther Thompson Crockett, Thus Joseph and Mary were first cousins as well as husband and wife.

gleaves > In memory of
Granville
Son of Joseph & Mary Crockett
Born in Williamson Co. May 22nd 1832
Died in Atlanta, Ga. May 11th 1863

gleaves > In memory of
Mrs. Jane Gleaves,
Daughter of Joseph & Mary Crockett,
Born Oct. 22nd, 1827
Died June 23rd, 1852
Jane was the first wife of Benjamin F. Gleaves

gleaves > Sarah Jane
dau. of Jane Crockett & Benj. F. Gleaves,
Dec. 6, 1849
July 3, 1929

gleaves > Gleaves
Andrew
1851 -1893
Mattie - His Wife
1856 - 1935
Andrew was the son of Benjamin F. & Jane Crockett Gleaves; his wife was Mattie E. Frost

Crockett-Gleaves Cemetery
ca 1824
Brentwood Historical Commission
Williamson County, Tennessee

> Crockett-Gleaves Cemetery
ca 1824
Brentwood Historical Commission
Williamson County, Tennessee

Crockett-Gleaves Cemetery
ca 1824
Brentwood Historical Commission
Williamson County, Tennessee

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