Tyson Cemetery

The story

J. P. Newton (1821-56), a settler from Tennessee, is the earliest known burial in this cemetery.

Charles Hammons (1854-64) has the second oldest stone. He was a grandson of another Tennessean, Charles Lee Sullivan (1810-68), a leader in this community. This burial ground, bought 1869 by Mr. and Mrs.

G. W. Hammons, Sullivan's son-in-law and daughter, later was donated to the public by James R.

Tyson (1829-99), father of Sullivan's daughter-in-law, Angeline Tyson Sullivan. There are 44 Sullivan graves in 1976. An active cemetery association maintains this burial ground (1976)