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Robert Winston Scales was born to Henry Preston and Willie Burkeen Scales on June 22, 1926. [citation needed] The couple owned and managed the Scales & Son Funeral Home; founded by Preston Scales in 1916, the business was the first black-owned funeral home in Murfreesboro and in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
The Mount Olivet Cemetery was established by Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley and John Buddeke in 1856. [1] It was modelled after the Mount Auburn Cemetery. [1] In the 1870s, a chapel designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style by Hugh Cathcart Thompson was built as an office.
Evergreen Cemetery is a 90-acre (36 ha) cemetery located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. [1] The cemetery began as a slave cemetery until its owner Dr. James Maney (the owner of Oaklands Plantation), deeded a 20-acre (8.1 ha) portion of his land to the city of Murfreesboro in 1872 to replace the "Old City Cemetery" which is located near downtown Murfreesboro.
The father of the 10-year-old Tennessee boy who was pulled into a storm drain following dangerous weather in the area has announced that his son has “officially passed away” and will be taken ...
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Macon continued to perform until shortly before his death on March 22, 1952, at Rutherford County Hospital in Murfreesboro. He was buried at Coleman Cemetery near Murfreesboro. [20] His funeral was visited by more than five thousand people and his pallbearers were George D. Hay, Kirk McGee, Roy Acuff, and Bill Monroe. [21]
He was buried at Forest Hills Cemetery on the 13th December, 1929. Funeral services were held from the home. [3] [23] His surviving wife, Tennessee, and daughter, Emily Jameson, flourished, 1930, at Lookout Mountain, TN. While his other daughter, Franklin Lubbock Miller, flourished at Knoxville, Tennessee, 1930. [24]