Etta Herald was Interred at Maddux Cemetery, Not McCullough

Rachel Etta Talley was born on 10 August 1876 in Tennessee (possibly Meigs County) to Mary Jane Salomon / Salmon (d. 1884) and Dudley H. Talley (1834-1933). On 16 November 1902, Etta married Samuel "Sam" Herald in Hamilton County, Tennessee. The couple had at least two children: Bertie May and Thomas.

According to Chattanooga, Tennessee city death records, Etta died of pneumonia on 27 November 1913. Burial was at Maddux Cemetery in Harrison, Hamilton County, Tennessee, although it was incorrectly listed as McCullough Cemetery in an obituary that ran in the Chattanooga Daily Times:

"Mrs. Eta Herald.

Mrs. Eta Herald, aged 37 years, died at her residence, 1125 Dodson avenue, East Chattanooga, at 2 p.m. yesterday. She is survived by her husband, Sam Herald, and two children. Funeral services will be held from the residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The body will be taken to Harrison early Saturday morning for interment in McCullough cemetery near there."

Etta was laid to rest next to her father-in-law, Thomas Herald. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served with Co. C, 5th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Harriet, the widow of Thomas, applied for a pension in 1894.

The cemetery land was previously owned by a Mr. McCaleb, so that surname might've been the one the obituary's author intended for print. Interestingly, it was C. C. McCaleb who enlisted Thomas into the Union Army at Harrison in February 1862. Maddux Cemetery is currently located on a road of the same name in Harrison Bay State Park (Harrison, TN).

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