Virgil A. Butler - Pounds & Idlewild Cemetery - Idlewild, TN
N 36° 01.709 W 088° 48.113
16S E 337650 N 3988609
Virgil A. Butler is buried in the Pounds & Idlewild Cemetery in Idlewild, Tn.
Waymark Code: WMM406
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 07/17/2014
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Virgil A. Butler is buried in the Pounds & Idlewild Cemetery in Idlewild, Tn.
Born
September 17, 1894
Died
November 5, 1919
At rest.
A popular local saying about Idlewild is that it's "Where the men are idle and the women are wild."
Idlewild is an unincorporated community in Gibson County, Tennessee, United States.
The community began to form in the 1870s. Initially it used the names Thedford and Sprawling, for early settlers with the surnames Thetford and Sprawling. The origin of the Idlewild name is not known. In 1887 Goodspeed's History of Tennessee described Idlewild as a "station on the Illinois Central Railroad south of Bradford," further saying "it was established in 1873, but it has never attained much importance."
Idlewild is the site of a post office, assigned zip code 38346. In 2011 the U.S. Postal Service listed it as one of almost 32,000 post offices being studied as candidates for being replaced by an arrangement to provide retail postal services through another local retail business.
Was the inscription legible?: Yes
Location of Marker/Monument: Cemetery
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