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Rope Field Burying Ground

Also known as Freeling Family Burial Ground

Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee, USA

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  • Get directions 2476 Riverside Drive
    Jackson, Tennessee, USA
    Coordinates: 35.54660, -88.85380
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Rope Field Burying Ground is located behind Claude Glynn Henderson's home at 2476 Riverside Drive (about 3 to 4 miles from the Jackson City limits). The land is owned by Henderson and the cemetery is actually a part of his cow pasture.



Tim C. Williams owned the field when Rope Field Burying Ground was established. Grandma (Ortna Lee Jennings) didn't like it when he (Mr. Williams) took the fence and gate down and let his cows wander through the cemetery.



Daddy (Malcolm Lee Jennings) remembers seeing the wagon pass his house (he lived then in a house on top of the hill on Caldwell Road, which was then only know as the crossroads to Malesus) bringing the coffin of Julia A. Freeling (wife of John H. Freeling) to be buried in Rope Field in 1914. Her's appears to be the last burial.



Another grave close to these, and one that Daddy thinks belongs to the Freeling family, did not have an identifying headstone, but was very distinctive. It was completely covered with a rounded half cylindrical tomb, formed by using wagon wheel rims filled in with bricks and covered smooth with concrete. Part had fallen in so that one could examine how it was made. Daddy thought the Freelings might have lived in an old home site that was supposed to have been across the field.





Rope Field Burying Ground is located behind Claude Glynn Henderson's home at 2476 Riverside Drive (about 3 to 4 miles from the Jackson City limits). The land is owned by Henderson and the cemetery is actually a part of his cow pasture.



Tim C. Williams owned the field when Rope Field Burying Ground was established. Grandma (Ortna Lee Jennings) didn't like it when he (Mr. Williams) took the fence and gate down and let his cows wander through the cemetery.



Daddy (Malcolm Lee Jennings) remembers seeing the wagon pass his house (he lived then in a house on top of the hill on Caldwell Road, which was then only know as the crossroads to Malesus) bringing the coffin of Julia A. Freeling (wife of John H. Freeling) to be buried in Rope Field in 1914. Her's appears to be the last burial.



Another grave close to these, and one that Daddy thinks belongs to the Freeling family, did not have an identifying headstone, but was very distinctive. It was completely covered with a rounded half cylindrical tomb, formed by using wagon wheel rims filled in with bricks and covered smooth with concrete. Part had fallen in so that one could examine how it was made. Daddy thought the Freelings might have lived in an old home site that was supposed to have been across the field.





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  • Added: 30 Jan 2007
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