Bartlett Family Recollections: Contributed by:  Jo Carolyn Beebe December 11, 1997

The Bartlett Cemetery is in present day Union County...Very near to the Tippah/Union line.


    The earliest family members buried in the Bartlett Family 
Cemetery migrated to Tippah County from White County TN.  
Nathan Bartlett (1806-1841) was probably the first to be 
buried there.  His half-brother, Joseph Bartlett (1796-1876),  
who first married his cousin, Nellie Bartlett (1797-1833) is 
also buried there along with his second wife, Martha 
Thomas (1816-1866).  From her nearby home, Nathan's 
wife, Narcissa Suttle Bartlett (1809-1892), could hear the 
sounds of the Battle at Brice's Crossroads.  Perhaps she 
knew that her son, Daniel, was fighting there.  Oral family 
history tells us that as Narcissa listened to the cannon fire, 
she wandered to the cemetery.  As she walked through the 
woods, she picked up a pine knot from a fallen log, and 
when she reached the grave of Nathan, she stuck the pine 
knot into his grave.  It remained there for decades.  It has 
disappeared, but it is hoped some family member took 
it for safe-keeping.