This cemetery is on a private family farm, please ask before coming. If you do not you will be removed for trespassing.

East of Nashville, Tennessee on Interstate 40, and take the Hwy. 70 exit and turn northt. Go 3.2 miles back toward Lebanon (west) and you will see a large two-story log home on the right. Then the next street on the right is Spring Creek Road. Immediately across from Hwy. 70 from the Spring Creek Road entrance is a little farm road. You will take that road, crossing a cattle grate, proceeding 4/10 miles up the hill. The Elam Thomson Cemetery will be on your left (east) encircled by a fenced. There are cedar trees all around. A number of people are buried in the little cemetery, but what will strike the visitor more than anything is the lack of headstones. The Elams and Thomsons did not believe in headstones, so all but one grave in the cemetery has no headstone. To find the grave of E.A. Elam, go to the stone you see just below. Just behind the ELAM/THOMSON stone is the graves of Brother and Sister Elam. Two field stones mark the graves (one on each grave). Just behind the graves is a broken tree trunk. It was E.A. Elam's desire that no stones be used. Some wanted him to be buried in a big cemetery with a large monument, but his feelings were that the Bible describes man as being from dust, and to dust he returned. In his humility he did not want his remains to be enshrined, and given undeserved honor.

On December 22, 2023, a Ground Penetrating Radar was brought to the Elam Cemetery to attempt to discover the exact location of any known, or unknown, graves. We were successful with discovering the exact locations of 3 graves. Due to a misunderstanding with the Ground Penetrating Radar Technology, we were not able to discover all of the graves due to the lack of the individuals being buried in caskets. With that being said though, we are lucky to have a cemetery that already shows indistinguishable divots in the ground that indicate grave locations. If anyone has any information regarding the exact locations of the individuals buried within this cemetery please contact Jackson Bone, (Contributor ID: 51339774).