Mason Wells Cemetery
(Old Pioneer Cemetery)

This cemetery is located on Old Allen (Cecil Watlington) Place: south of Hart's Bridge, and north of Five Points, in Madison County, Tenn. This may have been part of Patrick Sauls' Madison Co., Tenn. home place. Known burials of Watlington relatives there are:    

• Twin brother of Dr. Obe F. Watlington, b. 1861, infant son of Sarah Jane and John R. Watlington   
• George Sauls, eldest son of Patrick Sauls. (According to Halbert Watlington)
• Patrick Sauls, d. Spring 1871, and wife Elizabeth Watlington. (Stone found in 1994.)
• Kiley Watlington, Son of John R. and Sarah Jane, may also have been buried here. Died young so was probably buried before 1880.  
• Sarah Jane Gravit Watlington, wife of Dr. John R., d. after 1880.
• Dr. John R. Watlington, who died about 1910, was probably buried beside his wife.
• There is increasing evidence that George and Catherine Watlington were buried here.

Many others were buried here. Some stones were erected but have been covered up in recent years. This is one of the best documented desecration of pioneer graves, often done by their own descendents.