McLean Cemetery #1
Location: From Lawrenceburg, take Highway 64E to Gimlet Road. Turn left onto this road and go around a curve. Just past the curve there is a house on the left side of the road. Turn by this house, which will be the first road to your left (Beuerlein Lane). Cross the creek and follow the road between two houses and up a hill. The cemetery is on your right on a little rise in the middle of a pasture on the Niedergeses farm. It is on what was once the original Samuel McLean home place. In 1967, there were about 6 or 7 graves with stones that had no inscriptions. Some of the stones are broken, laying down, or deteriorated so badly you can not read them. At one time cows were allowed to roam through it. The listing was compiled from several sources: 1) 1936 WPA records; 2) 1955 Lawrence Co. Historical Society listing of names; 3) 1965 listing by Mrs. Lillie Belle McLean Appleton.
(Note: Since the listing in 1967, Strib McLean installed a fence around the cemetery to keep the cows out and kept the cemetery cleaned. Since Strib’s death, the cemetery is again becoming over grown with weeds, but supposedly is still cleaned once or twice a year.) Photos of this cemetery and markers can be found from a link off the Lawrence County Archives webpage in the cemeteries section titled Pictures of Lawrence County Cemeteries, then searching on McLean.
Beeler, John H., born 7 June 1819, died 8 Feb. 1852
Beeler, Elizabeth, died 6 Feb. 1812, age 55 years
Beeler, Daniel, born 1 Aug. 1776, died 13 Nov. 1843
Busby, Stephones, born 12 Feb. 1812, died 15 Mar. 1875 (Note: Name usually spelled Stephanus)
Busby, Messoniah E., born 11 Aug. 1849, died 1 Oct. 1852
Busby, Inf. son of S. & M. R., born & died 14 Dec. 1843
Davidson, Mamie Lee, born 31 Jan. 1888, died 26 Oct. 1888, daughter of L. V. & S. A.
" , Sarah A., died 22 Jan. 1912, age 65 years, 6 months, 11 days, (Sarah Amanda McLean, wife of Lee V. Davidson)
Gibson, Park, born 8 Nov. 1795, died 13 May 1877 (Note: This stone was found in Freemon Cemetery out from Leoma with the same dates and names. It is not known which cemetery he is really buried in.
Gillespie, French J., born 28 Oct. 1858, died 24 Jan. 1863 (son of Adolphus Marion Gillespie & Sarah Amanda McLean)
Guthrie, Mrs. Mae, born 25 Jan, 1851, died 22 Jan. 1924
Lindsey, Pezzard, born 18 Oct. 1843, died 31 Oct. 1848, son of E. N. & S. (concrete vault)
Lindsey, E. N., born 5 Jan. 1813, died 21 Aug. 1845
Lindsey, Tennessee F., born 3 Nov. 1838, died 14 July 1839
McLane, Robert C., born 31 May 1845, died 20 Aug. 1847, son of R. I. & M. A. N.
McLane, Robert Irvin, born 30 July 1806, A.D., died 5 Jan. 1837
McLean, F. A., born 9 Sept. 1833, died 5 Oct. 1835
McLean , Samuel, born 27 Jan. 1775, died 10 Apr. 1850, age 75 years, 2 months, 14 days
McLean, Elizabeth (Irvine), born 28 Sept. 1778, died 28 July 1846, age 67 years, 10 months, consort of Samuel (Note: Obituary in 1846 The Academist newspaper says died 31 July 1846.)
McLean, N. E., born 14 Sept. 1828, died 12 Nov. 1828
McLean, E. C. (Wasson), born 30 Apr. 1812, died 8 Sept. 1882, age 70 years, 5 months, 22 days, wife of S. D.
McLean, Gideon B., born 11 Aug. 1843, died 26 Apr. 1859
McLean, S. M., born 26 Aug. 1852, died 26 Apr. 1886, age 34 years, 4 months
Reddell, Mary A., born 25 Feb. 1840, died 2 Oct. 1907
Wasson, Thos. J., died 4 Dec. 1837 (son of W. L. & J.)
Contributed by Kathy Niedergeses Dec. 20, 2010