Mosley P. Wells Family Cemetery
Contributed by Jean Wells
Helen Young, Wanda Barnes and Jean Wells visited this cemetery on March 21, 2003.
Directions
From downtown Greenville go West on HWY 62 and turn left onto HWY 171 (also known as Weir St., it is last left before the Muhlenberg Community Hospital). Follow HWY 171 South through Weir. Turn right on a side road near the intersection of 171 and 853. The cemetery is on the right side of the road and has a fence around it.
The cemetery is marked off in 5 or 6 sections with concrete blocks or rocks. The first section has no tombstones, but Helen Young said there supposedly had been some sand stone markers in that section.
Mosley P. Wells's tombstone is the first that you see when you get in the cemetery. Louraney's is next. Her stone has broken and the top part is lying on the ground.
Back of photo says, “Micagah Wells at cemetery where Dorinda is buried.” Photo was probably taken between 1895 (after Dorinda Keith Wells's death) and 1899 (before Micagah's death).
Transcription
- Mosley P. Wells
March 21, 1798 - August 25, 1867
Mosley was the son of Micajah and Ann Collins Wells. He married 26 April 1831 in Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky, to Luraney Susanna Wells. - Luraney S. Wells
Wife of M.P. Wells
December 21,1809 - August 27, 1896
Luraney was the daughter of Wyatt and Nancy Ganes Wells and wife of Mosley P. Wells. Luraney and Mosley were first cousins. - Ann W. Drake
Died May 17, 1913; age 77
Mary Ann (Polly Ann) born 3 October 1836; died 17 May 1913. The daughter of Mosley P. and Luraney Susannah (Wells) Wells; she married Edmund Drake 8 October 1867. - Nancy L. Wells
Daughter of M.P. and L.S. Wells
September 21, 1837 - September 4, 1851
Daughter of Mosley P. and Luraney Susanna Wells - Mosley C. Wells
Son of M.P. and L.S. Wells
March 16, 1839 - April 6, 1864
Son of Mosley P. and Luraney Susanna Wells - Dan Wells
April 13, 1885 - October 24, 1947 - Infant Wells
Infant son of Joseph J. Sr. and E.A. Wells
July 25, 1859 - August 14, 1859 - Edgar Wells
April 7, 1875 - March 1, 1876 - Infant Pruett
Infant daughter of L.E. and M.L. Pruett
Born and died November 3, 1872
Daughter of Levy E. and Margaret L. Pruett - Alney W. Wells
July 25, 1882 - August 24, 1886 - Dorinda Wells
March 8, 1842 - August 22, 1895
Sarah Dorinda Keith born in Rutherford Co., Tennessee, the daughter of William and Rebecca Summers Keith. She married 10 July 1879 to Micagah C. Wells. - Micagah Wells
May 14, 1844 - August 17, 1899
Son of Mosley P. and Luraney Susanna (Wells) Wells, he married Sarah Dorinda Keith. - Several sandstone markers
