Couts Cemetery - Original
Springfield, Robertson County, Tennessee, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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As stated elsewhere, Leah and John Sr. and early Couts members selected a site for the family cemetery. It was located on a knoll or ridge in the field below the house. They found here the very essence of peaceful solitude and freedom from disturbance. It is with regret that man in his pursuit of progress saw fit to transgress and destroy the final resting place of the Couts Family. Today, my imagination wanders back to a time when John Sr., and Leah stood on this very spot and experienced today's scene of the last rays of the sun as it disappeared from the western sky and felt the cool breezes filled with summer's delightful fragrances of blooming woodland flowers. I recall as a young boy wandering throughout the cemetery and looking at the many deceased family members tombstones, and resting many times under a huge Elm tree located in the center of the cemetery. Its large, long limbs projected from the trunk forming a circumference of shade over the graves of the entombed. The graves in front of the cemetery were laid out in three straight lines with each Couts member with a tombstone located on the back side next to the bottom land were the graves of slaves, each marked with a large limestone rock and laid in three short rows. Only one Couts rock remains today, that of Albert W. Couts 1837-1857, son of Jackson. His obelisk type memorial rock stood five feet and measured twelve inches at the base and tapered to a four inch top. This stone, by estimation, weighed in the neighborhood of five hundred pounds. Because of its height and weight the foundation was unable to support the rock. In those days, men did much physical labor and were known for their strength of body. Many men were challenged to lift this rock clear of the ground. From time to time, many strong men attempted this feat, but only two are know to have succeeded, my father and an African-American man, named Roscoe Jones. In 1935, the grave makers were removed and the cemetery was once again made into an open field. In Tennessee, the law states, if a grave yard is fenced in it cannot be disturbed, but otherwise no law protects those with fences.
It is also said by James S. Armstrong:
I recall two large flat marble head stones with the name Stark, standing at the entrance of the original Couts Cemetery, but don't remember the first names. Today, I feel sure they were for Leah's parents.
As written by James S. Armstrong -
As stated elsewhere, Leah and John Sr. and early Couts members selected a site for the family cemetery. It was located on a knoll or ridge in the field below the house. They found here the very essence of peaceful solitude and freedom from disturbance. It is with regret that man in his pursuit of progress saw fit to transgress and destroy the final resting place of the Couts Family. Today, my imagination wanders back to a time when John Sr., and Leah stood on this very spot and experienced today's scene of the last rays of the sun as it disappeared from the western sky and felt the cool breezes filled with summer's delightful fragrances of blooming woodland flowers. I recall as a young boy wandering throughout the cemetery and looking at the many deceased family members tombstones, and resting many times under a huge Elm tree located in the center of the cemetery. Its large, long limbs projected from the trunk forming a circumference of shade over the graves of the entombed. The graves in front of the cemetery were laid out in three straight lines with each Couts member with a tombstone located on the back side next to the bottom land were the graves of slaves, each marked with a large limestone rock and laid in three short rows. Only one Couts rock remains today, that of Albert W. Couts 1837-1857, son of Jackson. His obelisk type memorial rock stood five feet and measured twelve inches at the base and tapered to a four inch top. This stone, by estimation, weighed in the neighborhood of five hundred pounds. Because of its height and weight the foundation was unable to support the rock. In those days, men did much physical labor and were known for their strength of body. Many men were challenged to lift this rock clear of the ground. From time to time, many strong men attempted this feat, but only two are know to have succeeded, my father and an African-American man, named Roscoe Jones. In 1935, the grave makers were removed and the cemetery was once again made into an open field. In Tennessee, the law states, if a grave yard is fenced in it cannot be disturbed, but otherwise no law protects those with fences.
It is also said by James S. Armstrong:
I recall two large flat marble head stones with the name Stark, standing at the entrance of the original Couts Cemetery, but don't remember the first names. Today, I feel sure they were for Leah's parents.
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- Added: 17 Jun 2018
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2667681
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