Hufstedler Cemetery
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Hufstedler Cemetery

Perry County, Tennessee, USA

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    Coordinates: 35.56030, -87.81720
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This is the Hufstedler Cemetery, also known as Rock Wall Cemetery and Pinckney's Tomb. It is located on Hurricane Creek and the bluff of the Buffalo River, near Linden, Tennessee. The cemetery is surrounded by a 4 or 5 foot rock wall. A roof reaches from wall to wall. There is a door at one end. The roof is tin. There is only one marker inside the wall and under the roof - the tombstone of Josephine Whitwell. Others are said to be buried there. The plot looks as though it may contain space for 10 or 12 people. When Bill Grimm visited the cemetery in 1972, his grandmother Kyle Largent Hufstedler told him that when Louisa Jane Hufstedler died in 1923, the spaces were full and she had to be buried as though standing.

This information comes from a visit to the cemetery in 1972 by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney D. Kirby and Bill Grimm as recorded in the publication "River Counties, July 1977. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. While it is on private property, Pinckney's Tomb is open to the public, and there are signs directing traffic from Linden. Please be respectful of the site.


This is the Hufstedler Cemetery, also known as Rock Wall Cemetery and Pinckney's Tomb. It is located on Hurricane Creek and the bluff of the Buffalo River, near Linden, Tennessee. The cemetery is surrounded by a 4 or 5 foot rock wall. A roof reaches from wall to wall. There is a door at one end. The roof is tin. There is only one marker inside the wall and under the roof - the tombstone of Josephine Whitwell. Others are said to be buried there. The plot looks as though it may contain space for 10 or 12 people. When Bill Grimm visited the cemetery in 1972, his grandmother Kyle Largent Hufstedler told him that when Louisa Jane Hufstedler died in 1923, the spaces were full and she had to be buried as though standing.

This information comes from a visit to the cemetery in 1972 by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney D. Kirby and Bill Grimm as recorded in the publication "River Counties, July 1977. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. While it is on private property, Pinckney's Tomb is open to the public, and there are signs directing traffic from Linden. Please be respectful of the site.


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  • Added: 1 Jan 2000
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 13744