STINNETT CEMETERY
Compiled and contributed by David Donahue
[The description of the cemetery and its condition below was written in 1989 and may no longer be accurate.]
Stinnett Cemetery is the unnamed cemetery shown on the U.S.G.S. Bearden Quadrangle just above the words "Northshore Woods." To find this cemetery, turn south onto Wrights Ferry Pike from Northshore Drive. About a half-mile south of Northshore Drive, just beyond Wrights Ferry Church, there is an abandoned quarry on the right-hand or west side of the road. Just beyond the quarry is a gravel drive. The drive goes up through the woods, passing junked automobiles, an old barn, and household debris to a foundation for a house either never built or torn down. The cemetery is about a hundred yards into the woods uphill from the foundation.
This cemetery has been vandalized and destroyed. The small graveyard contained perhaps a dozen graves within an iron fence. Part of the iron fence has been removed and lies in rubble and debris near the foundation. Some fieldstone still mark graves here. Holes dug in the graveyard make it seem that someone has dug into some of the graves. No graves have readable markers. One footstone has readable initials D.S. This footstone is recent enough (1920s as a guess) to expect that a readable headstone should be present. However, none remains. This cemetery was visited March 26, 1989.