Place:Owen-Jaquess Cemetery, Gainesboro, Jackson, Tennessee, United States

Resources

• Find A Grave: Owen-Jacquess Cemetery
• US Genweb Archives: Owen Cemetery - known burials and suspected burials

Cemetery notes and/or description

The Owen Cemetery is located on the Cummings Mill Road, Jackson County, Tennessee, about three fourths mile from the Dodson Branch Road. The cemetery is owned by the Mount Union United Methodist Church. The land was given to the church by Martin Van Buren Lewis and his wife, Susannah Farmer Lewis, on 20 September 1882, with the stipulation that no grave be put South of Eliza F. Lewis' grave. Eliza F. Lewis was the infant daughter of Mr & Mrs Lewis. Eliza F. Lewis was removed from the Owen Cemetery and was buried in the Cookeville City Cemetery, Cookeville, TN after the death of her mother. The grave site is still visable where Eliza was buried.

The cemetery is called the Owen Cemetery due to the Winburn Owen family owning the land around the cemetery from 1892 until the death of Thurman Owen in 1991. Previous owners of the farm were Nathaniel Mason, Hugh Swearingin and his sons, James, Levi, and William. William Sweringin sold the farm in 1851 to Stanley Spradling, a son-in-law of Isaac Jaquess. Spradling sold the farm to Martin Van Buren Lewis. Mr Lewis sold the farm to his nephew, Isaac Robert Jaquess. Isaac R. Jaquess then sold the farm to his brother-in-law, Columbus Peek. Peek sold the farm to Winburn Owen and it remained in the Owen family until 1991. The farm has now been subdivided.

There are approximately 125 graves in the cemetery and most are marked by field stones. In the North West corner of the cemetery, there is an eroded slate headstone with the date "born in 1776. I am assuming the the North West corner contains the earliest graves. All graves are laid in rows facing East and are in a fairly straight line.