Varner Cemetery
The Varner Cemetery is located twenty one miles north of Chattanooga. Follow highway #27 to Soddy for twenty miles, taking the back Valley road northwest for one mile. The land was given by Mr. Madison Varner in 1800. There are about three hundred very old unmarked graves.
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Card, Lucy A - Wife of W H Card - Nov 5, 1863 - Feb 11, 1922
Card, Claud C - Son of J S and Mena Card - Mar 23, 1917 - Apr 25, 1917
Coleman, Thos. J - Co C - 17 Ky Cav
Coleman, Rhoda A - July 16, 1848 - Jan 22, 1929 - 'She had done what she could. ' - Mark 14 - 8.
Brown, Ben -July 7, 1929 - Age 57 yrs.
Brackett, Migel - Feb 2, 1904 - Oct 11, 1937 - 'Oh how it grieves us to loose him, but our loss will be His gain for the Lord in all his mercies just saw fit to call his name.'
Bailey, Robert L - Georgia Pvt 6th Inf - Oct 2, 1935
Colston, Emma - Dec 9, 1903 - Oct 31, 1922
Curvin, Jessie L - Feb 4, 1913 - May 8, 1933
Cranmore, son of Clifford Eugene Cranmore - Sept 17, 1931 - May 28, 1932
Davis, Julia - Nov 29, 1876 - Dec 3,1919
Denny, Burrelle - Jan 25 , 1892 - May 21, 1894
Davis, George V - Son of J W and M E Davis - July 5, 1891 - Sept 10, 1912 - 'Thy will be done.'
Davis, Edsel H - Oct 19, 1906 - Sept 12, 1932
Dean, C M - Oct 29, 1924 - Oct 29, 1924
Elder, Infant son of J M and Mattie Elder - Aug 22, 1899 - Sept 22, 1899
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Elder, W O - Sept 22, 1891 - Apr 4, 1911 - 'At rest.'
Frix, John Taylor - Oct 1, 1905 - Oct 30, 1918 - 'By the grace of God we will meet again.'
Jones, M E - Wife of D Jones - June 30, 1881 - Dec 31, 1931
Campbell, Thomas J - 1889 - 1933
Daughtrey, Flossie - Wife of W T Daughtrey - May 15, 1879 - Nov 11, 1919
Flere, Joseph - Jan 28, 1845 - Nov 24, 1918
Flere, Olivan Presnell - Wife of Joseph Flere - Aug 19, 1852 - Aug 19, 1917
Gray, James H - Apr 25, 1856 - Sept 30, 1904
Gray, William K - Jan 19, 1840 - May 17, 1927
Gray, Sarah A Varner - Wife of William K Gray - Sept 22, 1849 - Nov 29, 1928
Gothard, Larkin - Oct 18, 1827 - Dec 31, 1884
Graham, Granville W - June 6, 1908 - Dec 23, 1933
Graham, Hannibal - Nov 30, 1864 - Aug 25, 1904
Graham, Robert L - Oct 9, 1898 - June 7, 1932
Harwood, Nell Hambrick - Wife of J H Harwood - May 17, 1893 - Mar 16, 1829
Hambrick, A R - Mar 10, 1863 - Jan 3, 1925
Hambrick, Ester Duke - Wife of A R Hambrick - Sept 2, 1813 - Dec 17, 1925
Keith, Grace - July 2, 1929
Jenkins, Corp. Samuel W - Co. L - Tenn Cav
Lloyd, Evelyn - Feb 1876 - June 6, 1922
Milligan, Robert E - Aug 2, 1938 - Age 20 yrs
Lynch, Eliza - Wife of W M Lynch - Apr 28, 1873 - Apr 6, 1910
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Madison, Pryor M - 1833 - 1932
Madison, Sarah Ella League - Wife of Pryor M Madison - 1870 -1930
Norwick, Dorthy Jane - Oct 11, 1921 - July 3, 1922
Morrison, W W - June 23, 1868 - Dec 4, 1912
Morrison, Geo. W - Mar 16, 1841 - May 3, 1910
Morrison, Lucinda - Feb 27, 1844 - Feb 22, 1911
Morrison, Hester - Died 1931
Millsaps, Charles Edwin - Feb 27, 1934 - Mar 20, 1934 - 'Budded on earth to bloom in Heaven.'
McWilliams, Dovie - Wife of Will McWilliams - Oct 18, 1895 - Feb 24, 1926 - 'He hath claimed her as His own.'
Morgan, Hilton L - Nov 5, 1883 - Jan 22, 1936 - 'We loved you, yea as we loved you, but Jesus loved you more, and He has sweetly called you to yonder shining shore.'
McClure, Georgia - Daughter of Geo. and M. McClure - Dec 5, 1918 - Dec 14, 1918
Pendegraph, Dewey L - Son of Sam and Pearl Pendegraph - 1918 - 1918
Pendegraph, Ruth M - Daughter of Sam and Pearl Pendegraph - 1917 - 1919
Pendergrass, Stella - Wife of W A Pendergrass - June 5, 1883 - Aug 26, 1917 - 'Gone but not forgotten.'
Parton, F E
Mother - McKown, Alazada - Feb 7, 1881 - Oct 29, 1918 - 'At rest.'
Rader, Gladdis - Dec 16, 1895 - Dec 22, 1895
Rievley, E
Presnell, August M - 1849 - 1931
Presnell, Nancy J - 1858 - 1935
Settles, J Earnest - Mar 24, 1882 - May 30, 1928 - Lodge # 654 - BPOE - Littlefield, Ill.
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Settles, S E - Feb 3, 1905 - Oct 16, 1924
Settles, Terrill T - Son of J and G Settles - Nov 10, 1868 - Dec 14, 1868
Father - Settles, John - 1838 - Dec 22, 1876
Mother - Settles, Catherine - Aug 28, 1840 - Jan 10, 1926
Stephens, Leslie Eugene - Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Stephens - Apr 28, 1931 - May 17, 1931
Stephens, Maggie Lee - Wife of John Stephens - 1899 - 1931 - 'A tender mother, and a faithful friend.'
Smith, Jennie Ruth - Oct 24, 1931 - Oct 28, 1931
Tate, Mrs. S J - Nov 21, 1868 - Aug 31, 1937 - 'Persecuted but not forsaken; cast down but not destroyed.'
Varner, Clay B - Sept 5, 1891 - Dec 2, 1916
Varner, Rebecca Jane - Wife of W A Varner - Oct 17, 1859 - Feb 5, 1933
Varner, Rhoda - Wife of George Varner - Nov 18, 1818 - Mar 28, 1888
Varner, George - Mar 5, 1816 - June 4, 1902
Varner, Marie Loraene - Daughter of W J and L E Varner - Oct 12, 1912 - Sept 13, 1916 - 'Safe in the arms of Jesus.'
Varner, Mrs. M - Jan 9, 1838 - Jan 9, 1884
Varner, William L - Son of J M and S A Varner - Sept 13, 1879 - Apr 23, 1881
Varner, James M - June 9, 1838 - Jan 9, 1884
Varner, Sarah - Wife of James M Varner - Sept 28, 1841 - Dec 30, 1928
Varner, Amanda - Sept 11, 1872 - Feb 18, 1904 - 'Her spirit smiles from that bright shore and softly whispers, weep no more.'
Varner, Mary E - Wife of H Varner - June 24, 1837 - Feb 1, 1893
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Varner, Madison - July, 1885 - Age 86 yrs.
Walker, Lova L - Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J L Walker - Mar 11, 1925 - Aug 31, 1925
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