Swain Cemetery
Very little is known about the origin or
nature of the Swain Cemetery. Found at the cemetery are 7
gravestones marking burials which occurred from 1877 until 1954.
In addition, several graves are identified by small metal
markers which at one time contained paper inserts with the name
of the individual buried. The metal markers, which are of the
type utilized from the mid-twentieth century to present, along
with early twentieth century dates on a majority of the
gravestones suggest considerable use of the cemetery during the
first half of this century. Grave depressions indicate the
locations of dozens of unmarked graves bringing the estimate of
burials present in the cemetery to 100. It is believed that the
cemetery has not been utilized within the past 35 to 40 years.
The site is located on a remote forested ridge top on land
locally known as the McKennie Place. Today there is no road
access to the site, however it is likely that at some point in
the past the cemetery had vehicular access. Designated state
historic site number 40FY342 by the Tennessee Division of
Archaeology, the cemetery can be found at U.T.M. coordinate
E294980 N3888152 which is on the USGS Grand Junction, TN 7.5
minute quadrangle map.