Reed-Woods Cemetery in Smyrna, Tennessee

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Smyrna, Tennessee, USA

Coordinates: 35.94364, -86.48038
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Reed-Woods Cemetery, previously at gps 35.9510994, -86.4807968, is now, physically, a part of Silver Springs Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. In 1981-1982, the burials were moved to clear the way for a railroad spur to serve the nearby, new Nissan plant. Some of the cemetery photos are of newspaper stories surrounding that event. Land was purchased on the right-hand side of the existing Silver Springs Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, into which the 95 burials were relocated. Only five of the burials had readable headstones. Those were moved as individual graves. Names of all 58 known to have been buried at Reed-Woods are included on a large marble memorial, but no dates are given. Sadly, the names of the other 37 burials remain lost to time.

Many of the burials were believed to have dated to the 1800s. At the time of the relocation, there had been no burials for many years, and the cemetery was quite overgrown. Based upon census and other documents, it appears that this had been the cemetery for an African-American farming community established after the War Between the States. It is probable that some of those buried had been slaves in the area.