Altona Cemetery

From Elvira Lewis' transcription: "Once a pleasant little river town where people took the Patterson Ferry to Livinston County, there is nothing left of it. There was an exception made for this graveyard in the 1974 deed from Carborundum Company to the Tennessee Forging Steel Company. Part of the graves have been moved to Calvert City Cemetery."

Bebout, Enoch B.	b. May 1855 per 1900 census	death date unknown	only footstone is left; per RootsWeb WorldConnect Submittal, b. 10 May 1854, son of John Bebout and Sarah Shoemaker, d. Sep 1902, married Martha Ann McLaughlin
Hunter, Robert Frank		1892-1895	only footstone, "R.F.H.", left; married Susie McLaughlin in January 1889; Susie remarried in 1895
McLaughlin, Robert			Civil War Veteran, came from Morgan City, Louisiana to Smithland, to Marshall County; he became postmaster at Altona; per RWS, Robert Thomas McLaughlin, born 1824 in Pennsylvania, married Susannah Adeline Stansbury 11 Nov 1864
McLaughlin, Susannah	b. ca 1837	d. ca 1919	per RWS, Susannah Adeline Stansbury, b. 17 Jan 1837 Louisiana to Edwin Stansbury and Mary Collins, married Robert McLaughlin
Stokes, John Thomas	20 Aug 1912	28 Aug 1912	last burial at this cemetery; buried in metal casket made by Talmage Story, burial by Lewis Hall, undertaker for Calvert City; child of Thomas Stokes and Minnie B. Gaswater; died of septecemia; death certificate can be view at http://kyvitals.com/vis/search/view_death_rec.php?deathID=21333

Source: Elvira Lewis' Transcription