Old Trinity Episcopal Church Memory Marker I - Mason, TN
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N 35° 27.359 W 089° 31.118
16S E 271428 N 3926527
Memory to those buried at Richland, plantation home of W. A. Somervill, I.
Waymark Code: WMDWWZ
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 03/04/2012
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Mason, Tipton County, Tennessee
Markers are in the cemetery of Old Trinity Church, built in 1845, is one of the few remaining antebellum structures in Tipton County and the fifth-oldest church still in use in the Diocese of West Tennessee.
National Register of Historic Places: Trinity Episcopal Church, Old (added 1997 - - #97000039)
Also known as Trinity Episcopal Church; Trinity-in-the-Field Episcopal Church.
Charleston Rd., 4 mi. NE of Mason, Tipton County, Tennessee
Dedicated to the Memory of those buried nearby at Richland, the plantation home of William Alexander Somervill, I
1845 - 1866
Josephine Amelia, Daughter, age 3
Jane Eppes Fraser Claiborne 1782 - 1868
Her four sons:
Devereaux Augustine, daughter Helen R. age 3
Charles Fenton
Austin Fraser
Benjamin Watkins Leigh
Fannie Somervill Green
Willis Lewis Green
John Richard Green
Katy Volkes, infant daughter of Joe Brehon Somervell and Eliza Jones
And Others
Website for the Church;
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NRHP TN Tipton;
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