SHIELDSTOWN CEMETERY
(Linden Avenue)

Compiled and contributed by David Donahue 

          Shieldstown Cemetery is a small cemetery on the north side of Linden Avenue west of Kellar Street in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1990, the cemetery was being kept cut by an adjacent property owner who complained that the city refuses to take care of the cemetery and that kids at the playground across the street had carried off markers to sit on. This cemetery probably was full; if so, under 25 percent of the graves remained marked in 1990. This cemetery was recorded March 21, 1990.

 

Allen, Mollie, no dates

Burnette, Martha, 8/29/1859-1/4/1885, "Wife of G. W. Burnette"

Collins, Mary M., 6/17/1881-1/1/1886?, "Daughter of H. M. & S. J. Collins" (broken, out of place)

Dockery, James, 2/24/1916-3/16/1916\Dockery, Roy, 3/31/1919-12/28/1919 [replacement]

Evans, William, 3/12/1880-11/18/1897

Frye, Allie, 2/5/1869-10/18/1918

Hilton, Walter, 7/1/____-6/25/____ (blocked by brush) [Note: These was another Hilton marker blocked by brush.]

Humphries, Ida B., 6/23/1873-8/1/1874

Jones, Ellen J., 1/3/1838-2/6/1920, "Wife of William H. Jones"

Lusby, J. M., d. 9/14/1890, "Aged 37 Years"

Lusby, Mary, d. 4/19/1893, "Aged 28 Years"

Moore, Abagail, d. 5/28/18__ [adjacent to marker for J. A. Moore] (sunken, partially covered)

Moore, J. A., 9/20/1822-6/10/1875

Musgrave, E. B., 9/16/1836-4/10/1886

Owens, Emily E. [see Sherbit, Emily E. Owens]

Retherford, Freddy, 10/24/1889-7/16/1890

Sanders, George, 9/1/1872-7/23/1904, "Son of Wm. & Susan Sanders"

Sherbit, Emily E. Owens, 12/8/1850-7/1/1888, "Wife of Jacob Sherbit"

Willis, Charley, 5/4/1878-9/19/1880\Willis, Infant, d. 5/4/1878

Willis, Curty, 2/26/1884-9/23/1887

Willis, Georgie, 6/10/1886-10/7/1887

 

Unidentifiable

Mare S., d. 5/21/1871?

W.H.J. [footstone; probably William H. Jones]

 

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