Reverend Elam Stevenson was an American Methodist preacher, who ministered during the early 19th century in southern Tennessee.
Many ministers of the gospel, including four sons, have proceeded from the lineage of Rev.
He was much opposed by his parents, who were Presbyterians (being of Scottish heritage), and they honestly thought he was being deceived by the false teachers who were to come in the last days.
This stone bears the following inscription "Erected to the memory of Reverend ELAM STEVENSON, born September 24, 1787, died March 13, 1875.
On the reverse side of the same stone appears the following inscription: "Erected to the memory of LYDIA STEVENSON, born August 16, 1787, died March 6, 1872.