(c) Photo courtesty of Wanda Lee, Madison County, Tennessee ~ April 2000
"Gone, but not forgotten"
(c) August 2000
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone,
the name and date are chiseled out
On polished marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
it is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.

Cemetery Gate
Stones
Bemis Cemetery Logo
Madison County, Tennessee
Bemis is one of the "newer" communities of Madison County, Tennessee. It was established in the spring of 1900.  Located three miles south of Jackson, Tennessee by the owners of the Bemis Brothers Bag Company, who were interested in locating their 20,000 spindle cotton mill near the cotton fields, and railroad. The community of Bemis was located on lands formerly owned by H.E. Jackson.  The Bemis Cemetery is a part of that company owned town.
Bemis Cem 8/00
Bemis Cem Back area
W Lee Overall Bemis
(c) August 2000
James Wiley Ellis
(c) August 2000
RIP Headstone
Our blood contracts and beat a pulse
Entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
Dear Ancestor
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