David Shelby- Tombstone Inscriptions

Shelby, David
Section 28.51
ID # 280157

David Shelby

(Inscription & Epitaph
Illegible below the name)

Documentation
1908 Plat: D. Shelby (died 1836)
    Section 28 SE Lot 79
1909 List: Lot owner Shelby
Smith (1908): David Shelby

Note:
Two broken column monuments stand side by side
for David Shelby (dates unknown) and for
David Williams, infant died 1836, a grandson of
Dr. John Shelby (1785-1859). This is not the
marker for David Shelby, father of Dr. John
Shelby, who died in 1822 in Sumner Co., Tennessee.

Survey 2005. Not Recorded
Revisited & Tombstone Photo 2-6-2013 below


Cemeteries on-line for Sumner County, Tennessee, listed Shelby Cemetery, 333 Trina Street, Gallatin, with five burials. Tombstone inscription for David Shelby: “David Shelby Departed this life 60 Years of Age Died September 12, 1822.”

Updated: 11-25-2016


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After 2009 Restoration

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