Trenton County Courthouse Lawn - Trenton, TN
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YoSam.
N 35° 58.843 W 088° 56.511
16S E 324932 N 3983553
Originally buried in a field near the Madison-Gibson County line....but the Quarterly Court felt he would be safer, and more appropriate here....
Waymark Code: WM11CDW
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2019
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County of Grave: Gibson County
Address of Grave: College St. & Huntingdon St., Trenton
Number of graves: 1
Buried now on courthouse lawn
Gravesite moved in 1975
Text of Original Tomb stone:
WILLIAM P. SEAT.
Born
Feb. 27, 1784.
Died
Aug. 16, 1853.
Married to
REBECCA CLINTON
ca 1810
Text on 1975 Marker: Chmn. of the 1st Gibson CO. Quarterly Court, held Jan. 5 & 6 1824. at the house of Luke Biggs, 4 miles Northwest of this site
Court members commissioned by Gov. Wm. Carroll and oath administered by B. G. Stewart, J.P. Madison Co.
Other members are Robert Edmonson, Robert Reed, Olley Blakemore, John D. Love, William W. Craig, Hunter Burgin, Benjamin White, Isham E. Davis, [three names unreadable].
The grave of Seat moved here from near the Madison Co. line, 1975, by the Gibson Co. Quarterly Court. Born in Virginia moved to Gibson Co. from Davidson Co., TN. about 1822.
First Co. Co. Clk. - Thomas Fite
Sheriff - John W. Needham
Register - W. W. Craig
Trustee - Robert Reed
Ranger - Wm. Blakemore