Keeping their Memories Alive - Burials at the Stand Cemetery walks a reader through the historic Stand Cemetery, a cemetery located on a hill overlooking the picturesque Shady Grove Community in Duck River, Tennessee.
Janet Delk Roberts' book contains the history of the cemetery and aerial views of all sections that make up this Hickman County cemetery. In addition, she systematically identifies the graves in these sections by rows. Roberts, also, transcribes the complete information on all markers and the type and description of stones marking the graves. All veterans in the cemetery are identified, in part, by military branch and rank, if known. To assist in locating these graves in the book or in the cemetery, she includes indexes with page numbers, indexes with grave locations and separate indexes for veterans.
Roberts has strong roots in the community and the Stand Cemetery is very close to her heart. She has six generations of her family buried at the Stand. As she walks the rows of graves, the names are familiar to her. With the help of her book, she hopes the names of the ones buried at the Stand Cemetery will become familiar to the readers, too. "Keeping their Memories Alive"