The correct spelling for the name of this cemetery is WOOLVERTON.

The Woolverton Cemetery is 3 miles northwest of Adamsville, Tennessee, just across the road from where the Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist Church once stood.

Go north from Adamsville on Highway 22 (also known as Maple Street) and go about a mile and a half north until you reach Winding Ridge road. (This road was not clearly marked last time I visited Adamsville, but it is a paved road that heads in a northwesterly direction.) Turn left onto Winding Ridge road and go one and a half miles until the road becomes a gravel road. Continue on Winding Ridge road for one more mile. Then on the left will be a small, one-lane dirt/gravel road with a small gate at the entrance. (If you see the building for the Fox Hunters Association, you have gone too far.) Take this small gravel road south exactly one mile to the Woolverton Cemetery. (If the road is muddy, you may have to walk about half of the way on foot as this road is not used very much anymore.) The Woolverton Cemetery is on the left about 20 feet from the gravel road. It only has a few stones, and most of them are fallen over.

Some of those buried here are James Woolverton (1797-1878) and his wife, Agatha (Williams) Woolverton (1802-1874). One of their sons, John Thomas Woolverton (1843-1881), and wife Elizabeth (Barran) Woolverton (1857-1913) are buried there. William Barran (1821-1898), father of Elizabeth is buried there. Also a Jesse Moore (1831-1896) and wife Ann (Woolverton) Moore, who was a niece of James Woolverton. And maybe one or two others of the Woolverton and Moore families (children who died young).

Additional information on the Woolvertons buried in this cemetery may be found in WOLVERTONS UNLIMITED, Vol. 3, No. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1995), pp. 143-144.

Submitted by: Glenn Gohr
archives_guy@hotmail.com

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