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WPA CEMETERY LOCATION LISTINGS AND COMMENTS By Lawrence McConkey
WPA CEMETERY LOCATION LISTINGS AND COMMENTS By Lawrence McConkey
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The Allison Family Cemetery was established on the Allison farm. It is thought that the Allisons migrated from North Carolina, and settled at this place when first settlers came to this part of the Country. J. F. Allison., born Aug. 13, 1863, died Oct. 9, 1914, is buried in the City Cemetery at Madisonville. He was a son of William D. Allison and a grandson of Jessee Allison. J. F. Allison was Registrar of Deeds for Monroe County for several years. His widow, Saleatha, is still living.
The Jessee Allison Family Cemetery is located 19 miles South of Madisonville and can best be located by going to Mt. Vernon then to Jalapa then on to road leading toward Ivy, to the farm of Wm. R. Cain. The Allison family owned slaves and one of them is buried in this cemetery.
There are 18 inscriptions and 10 unmarked graves some of them being of people not related to the Allison family.
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The Beulah Southern M. E. Church Cemetery is located 5 miles N. E. of Tellico Plains. To reach the cemetery from Tellico Plains follow Big Creek Road to Sink Creek Bridge then turn left. The church and cemetery were established on three-fourths acres of land bought from John Henderson Payne and E. W. Harrison. The church was constituted 55 years ago. The first burial, that of John Henderson (Jack) Payne, was on December 19, 1903. J. W. Payne, a Civil War soldier is buried in Beulah. Southern M. E. Church Cemetery according to Frazier Styles.
The cemetery contains 24 field stones and 8 unmarked graves
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The Big Creek Baptist Church and Church Cemetery are located about 6 miles Southeast of Madisonville. They may be reached by taking the Madisonville to Belltown road for about 5 miles then turning right on to the Big Creek road. The church was constituted in 1834 on land given by Thomas Divine. He also furnished the land for the cemetery which is up on the hill from the church. The cemetery was established about the same time as the church, but the earliest inscriptions readable are dated in 1839. Later Elijah Cagle gave additional land for the cemetery and a few years ago more land for the grave-yard was secured from John Saffles. There cemetery land comprises about 10 acres and approximately 6 acres is in graves. Several soldiers are buried in Big Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. There are 231 inscriptions; several fragments of inscriptions; 114 Field Stones; 174 or more unmarked graves and 12 graves whose inscriptions have been destroyed.
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Luther M. Blackman Family Cemetery is on the farm of William D. Blackman, J. P., 10 miles North of Madisonville. It may be reached by taking the road that leads to Loudon, via Oak Grove Baptist Church and Oak Grove County School, Fowlers Cemetery and Fowlers County School. The farm is at the right.
Luther M. Blackman born in Connecticut, was a. major in the U. S. Army in the War between the States. He married Margaret Cook of Monroe County. To this union were born the following children: Mollie, who married M. H. Rausin; Callie, who married Lee Leslie, Lou Emma, who married J. S. Tipton; William D., who married Ruth McLendon; Newland, never married and Electa, never married.
After the war between the States Luther M. Blackman an was a member of the State Legislature 1865-1867; Government Pension Claim Agent; U.S. Commissioner of Pensions and Justice of the Peace. He is buried in the National Soldier Cemetery at Knoxville.
There are no unmarked graves
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Date: September 20, 1939
The Blair Cemetery, at one time known as Morrow Cemetery, is on a farm now owned by John Blair. It is part of a 210 acre tract on the Tellico River bought circa 1840 by Armstrong Morrow from John McGhee. The cemetery is about 1 ˝ miles East of
Vonore on the Ball Play Road. Vonore is approximately 9 miles N. E. of Madisonville.
When the farm was purchased in 1840 there was one unknown grave on it, this covered with a rock wall. Armstrong Morrow later allowed a community cemetery to be established on this property.
Martha W., daughter of Armstrong and Margaret Morrow, married J. T. Blair. The farm fell in possession of the Blairs and has benn owned by them or their children ever since.
J. T. Blair and Judge John J. Blair, deceased were related. The latter served as Criminal Judge of his District.
There are possibly 15 or more unmarked graves in Blair Cemetery.
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The Blair Farm Cemetery is about 4 ˝ miles East of Tellico Plains on the road leading to Belltown and Ball Play. Tellico Plains is 16 miles South of Madisonville. The cemetery was established before the Civil War and it is not known by whom. The Blair family has owned the farm for over 50 years. It is now owned by Mrs. Mary Sneed Blair. The cemetery covers a patch in the woods of about 30X50 feet. The last burials that of Nancy Lynn, was In 1900. There will not likely be any more burials in this cemetery. There are 8 graves marked with field stones and 22 unmarked graves.
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The Bullet Creek Baptist Church Cemetery was started by the Cain family in 1897 but was soon transferred to the church for a public burial ground. The church had been established for some time.
This cemetery is about 22 miles South of Madisonville. The best route is via Mt. Vernon, to Jalapa or Brown Hill, to Ivy then West toward Starr Mountain.
There are approximately 90 unmarked graves.
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J. M. Burton deeded 1/4 acre for a family cemetery. The graveyard is on the Burton farm which has been owned by the Burton family for over 100 years. It is located 8 miles North of Madisonville. To reach the farm go via Hiwassee College and keep the main straight road at Rockville. The cemetery is at the Burton Hill County School off the rain road to the left about 1/4 mile.
Robert Burton married Mildred Carpenter. Both were Virginians. To this Union were born the following children: Nancy, who married Wm. P. Kittrell; Lucy, who married Wm. Griffitt; Jane, who married Gillespie Montgomery; James Madison, who married Sarah Matthews; Henry H. who died when young; and William P., married Mallissa Rausin.
There are 19 inscriptions, and a few unmarked graves - possibly 10, most of which are of people unrelated to the Burtons.
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Date: Jan. 25, 1939
The Cathcart Family Cemetery was established on the farm of Joseph and Annie Cathcart at their request. They willed their farm to the Denton family. It is on the J. F. McCracken farm which is located about 4 1/2 miles East of Madisonville on the road leading to Hopewell Springs.
Joseph Cathcart, came from near Loudon, and married Annie Denton. He had one brother, named Allen who lived in the same section, near Loudon. Allan had one daughter who married David Brooks and one son named George. Some relatives of Joseph Cathcart, lived in Georgia.
Joseph and Annie Cathcart were not the parents of any children. There is not any record of their ages but it is thought that they were between 85 and 90 years old when they died.
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The Center Presbyterian Church and the church are located about 3 miles East Tellico Plains on the road leading to Belltown. The land for both church and cemetery, comprising about an acre and a half, was given by Charles A. Scott in 1924. The church is in one corner of the property. The remainder is to be used for cemetery purposes as needed. The graves are scattered about.
The first sermon in the Center Presbyterian Church was preached by the Rev. Sam Wolf on Feb. 17, 1924. His text was from the 10th Chapter of Hebrews, the 25th verse
First burial in the cemetery, that of Robert Harrison Stephens, took place on July 14, 1933. There are 2 graves marked by field stones and 7 unmarked graves.
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Date: August 23, 1939
Land for Chestua Baptist Church and Cemetery is said to have been given by the Rev. John Scruggs who moved to Monroe County in 1833. Chestua Baptist Church was constituted in 1825. As the opinion is strong that this land was donated by the Rev. Mr. Scruggs, it would seem that church services were held in some one's home or in a school house for several years prior to the erection of the church.
The earliest inscription in Chestua Baptist Church Cemetery is that of John J., son of John & Theresa N. Scruggs, who was born February 5, 1839 and died September 10, 1839.
Probably the most prominent person buried In Chestua is the Rev. John Scruggs, second son of Richard and Eliza McMahan Scruggs. He was born in Grayson County, Virginia, and with his parents moved to Greene County, Tennessee, near Warrensburg.
On September 7. 1824 John Scruggs married Miss Theresa Newell Carter, daughter of Francis J. and Esther Crocket Carter of Cocke County, Tennessee. The latter was a cousin of the celebrated David Crocket. Scruggs moved to Monroe County in1833 and purchased 1700 acres of land on Chestua Creek. He was a reader of Greek. A brick Church at Chestua was built before the Civil War and he furnished over one third of the entire cost of the building. Two other prominent men buried in Chestua Cemetery are John Coltharp, and John B. Wilson. Mr. Coltharp was the son of a Revolutionary Soldier and a first Deacon of the church. Mr. Wilson was a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Broyles) Wilson. His parents migrated from Washington County, Tennessee. He was a direct descendant of Benjamin Wilson who was at Watauga Settlement, and a first Esquire of the first free Government of the world. John B. Wilson married Louvenia, a daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Lowry Barr, who lived in Jefferson County, Tennessee, before settling in Monroe. The early Wilsons, Lowrys, & Broyles emigrated from Scotland, coming through Virgina to Tennessee.
There are 188 inscriptions and 300 or more unmarked graves in Chestua Baptist Cemetery. The cemetery is well fenced and has rocked drive ways. It is about 5˝ miles South of Madisonville, and about mile to the left of McCroskey.
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Date: Nov. 1928
The Citico Baptist Church Cemetery was established at the death of Eas Millsaps in 1860. It became a community cemetery. Later his son Jesse Millsaps bought the land and then the Citico Baptist Church was removed from across the Creek to near the cemetery. The majority of people buried here are either members of the Millsaps family or related to them. The graveyard is located in the steep hills, 29 riles East of Madisonville and can be reached best by going to Vonore then taking the road known as the Citico road
There are approximately 152 marked graves and possibly more unmarked ones.
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The Clemmer Cemetery was established on the farm of John Clemmer as a cemetery for relatives. It was later changed to a neighborhood cemetery. There are 50 or more unmarked graves. Lorenzo Davis, who died Nov. 20, 1827, was the first one buried here. The location is 10 miles North of Madisonville. The nearest route from Madisonville via Oak Grove Baptist Church, then to Lakeside, there cross the Vonore - Sweetwater road and go to the farm of Hugh Clemmer.
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Archibald McLemore entered and acquired 640 acres of land where the Click Cemetery is located. It is believed that the cemetery was established when he owned the farm and that he and his wife are buried here. The cemetery is called the Click Cemetery for the Click family, who later owned the farm, deeded the plot for a burial ground.
The farm, now owned by L. B. Williams, is 10 miles East of Madisonville, on the Povo Road.
There are 29 Inscriptions and approximately 40 unmarked graves.
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Date: Feb. 19, 1940
The Cochran Cemetery Is located about 1 mile West of the L. & N. Railroad Station of Kincaid and 6 miles North of Madisonville. To reach it go via Lakeside road to Oak Grove Baptist Church & Oak Grove School then turn right on to road leading to Kincaid to the farm of Will Mincey, where the cemetery is located. It is said that John B. Lillard owned the farm when the cemetery was established and that his son, William L., who died Oct. 27, 1861 , was the first one buried here. Later the Cochran family owned the cemetery and farm and it is known as Cochran (locally pronounced "Cohorn") Cemetery. Other people are buried here besides the Lillard and Cochran families. John B. Lillard was related to the Lillards of Meigs County, many of whom are buried at Upper Goodfield Baptist Cemetery, and to the Lillards of Polk County who are buried in Benton and Four Mile Cemeteries. This is a pioneer family. John & Jane Cochran of Big Springs in Blount County moved to Monroe County In 1837. Their son, R. L. married Ann Lowry or Lowery, daughter of William M. and Elizabeth Lowery or Lowry who also cane from Blount County in 1845. One of this family of Lowery's was president of Hiwassee College for many years. There are 27 inscriptions in the cemetery which is fenced and covers approximately 1 acre. The cemetery is still used ocassionally.
Graves without Inscriptions are as follows: 25 field stones, approximately 3 with inscriptions destroyed, 72 unmarked graves.
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Date: Jan. 25, 1939
The Cooke - Kefavuer Family Cemetery is on the Kefauver Dairy Farm on the edge of Madisonville. There are 9 inscriptions and no unmarked graves.
The Rev. J. P. Kefauver was born December 19, 1819 near Roanoke, Va. He was an only son of Jacob and Nancy (Vineyard) Kefauver. His father was from Maryland and was of German extraction. His mother was from Washington, D. C. and her ancestors were French. The Rev. Mr. Kefauver was a classical scholar, having had good educational advantages from his youth, first In the nearby district schools, and later at what is now Hollins Institue, where he had a five year course. In early manhood he was married to Sarah Sively, of Virginia, who brightened his life for one year and died.
At.the age of 20 he was converted and received what he felt to be a divine call to the ministry. He was ordained to this work December 11, 1857 by the Authority of the Blue Ridge Church (Baptist) near Roanoke, Va., of which he was a member - the credentials given him by the ordaining council bearing the signatures of "Thomas C. Coggin,, David Staley, Geo. W. Leftwich, Pleasant Brown". The Rev. Mr. Kefavuer came to East Tennessee in the Fall of 1861.
On December 12, 1861 he was married to Nannie R. Cooke, daughter of Dr. Robert F. & Charlotte Cooke, of Madisonville. To this union were born two sons, Robert Cooke and Paul, and two daughters Charlotte & Venia.
The Rev. Mr. Kefauver had the pastoral oversight of the First church of Chattanooga for seven years. During and following the Civil War, protecting the sheep as best he could from the dogs of war. At the close of the war, in company with Dr. J. R. Graves, he attended the General Convention of Baptists meeting in Chicago, Ill, and was invited to make a statement before that body of the condition of Baptist affairs in Tennessee and particularly in Chattanooga. Then the convention volted with one accord to furnish money with which to reseat and repair the Chattanooga Church. He served as its pastor until the death of his father-in-law, Dr. Cooke. Then it was necessary for him to take charge of a large farm and business which had been willed to his wife by Dr. Cooke.
The Rev. Mr. Kefauver was later pastor at different times, of Sweetwater, Old Sweetwater, Prospect Madisonville and other Baptist Churches. When he took charge of the Madisonville church it was considerably in debt. Instead of preaching to the church for nothing till it could pay off the debt, he instructed the church to pay on the debt what they owed him as pastor.
Dr, Robert F. Cooke was a Baptist minister, of note. He was a direct descendant of Robert Cooke, a Scotchman, a Saddle and shoemaker by trade, whose wife was Sarah Fielding from Devonshire County, England. This couple came across the waters and settled in Maryland, St. Mary's County in the year 1720. Another Robert Cooke, grandfather of Robert F., was married to Susannah Watson, in Culpepper Co., Va., on Jan. 6, 1778 and died at his home in White Co., Tenn., Nov. 12, 1841 in the 90th year of his age.
Estes Kefauver, grandson of the Rev. J. P. Kefauver, is a prominent attorney of Chattanooga. He served as State Finance and Taxation Commissioner under Governor Cooper. (Editor's note: Estes Kefauver was elected a member of Congress- in the 3rd District of Tennessee November 8, 1939, filing out the unexpired term of the late Sam D. McReynolds.
It is understood that the farm willed to Mrs. Kefauver by her father, Dr. Cooke, is always to be held by the Kefauver name as long as there are any male descendants, or unmarried female members of the family.
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Date: 1930's
The Coppenger Cemetery is about 1 mile East of Tellico Plains, just across the Tellico River and on the hill near the bridge. Tellico Plains is 16 miles South of Madisonville. The cemetery is the oldest one in this section and dates back to the time when an English Company owned the land as the Slate and Iron Company, or even before then when church Johnson owned the land. There was an Indian Village at the foot of the hill and the Indians might have established the cemetery. There was an epedemic of Cholera in the 1830's that killed nearly all the settlers in this community and they are buried here. When Wm. Weiss sold the farm to Charles Swainson about 38 years ago, he reserved in his deed the cemetery which was about 1 1/2 acres. More has been added and there are now about 2 1/2 acres in the Graveyard. It is a community cemetery but the majority buried there are members, of the Coppenger family or their relatives. This is a White people's cemetery. No Negroes ever have lived this community. There are graves of two or three Negroes below the cemetery. They were killed.
The cemetery is still in use. There are 110 inscriptions; 107 graves marked with field stones; 4 tombstones with inscriptions destroyed and approximately 125 graves without inscriptions, making a total of some 236 graves having no readable inscription.
George Washington Crofts was born in South Carolina. He married Elizabeth Boswell also of South Carolina. They later moved to Monroe County, Tennessee and bought a farm where this cemetery was established. They were the parents of twelve children to wit: George, who married Susie Stephens; Ellen, who married Neal Crofts; James, who married Nancy Jane Watson; Andrew who married Nancy Jane Atkins; Mary who married Burt Mitchell; Betty, who married John Watson; Rufus, who married Maranda Grigsby; Eddie, who married Margaret Watson; Bell, who married Low Ervin; Infant, that died; Arthur, who married Rhoda Watson and Margarette, who married Andrew Rogers.
The name formerly was spelled Crofts but now some members of the family spell it Croft.
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Date: Oct. 28, 1938
The G. W. Crofts Family Cemetery was established on the farm of George Washington Crofts about 7 miles South of Madisonville. The first burial was that of Eddie, son of George Washington and Elizabeth Crofts. To reach the graveyard take the Tellico plains route to Hoe there turn to the right on to the "Old Federal" road. The cemetery is on the farm of Mrs. Ethel Croft Harris. There are 14 inscriptions and 8 unmarked graves.
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Date: Nov. --, 1938
This cemetery was established in 1865 when two brothers, Burt and Riley Curtis, were killed. The land was owned by the Curtis family and has been used as a neighborhood burial ground. Later the farm was owned by Peter Moser who was a very prominent Monroe Countian. The plot was deeded for a cemetery, by the Moser family and some know it was the Moser Cemetery.
There are 15 Inscriptions and possibly 40 unmarked graves. The cemetery is on the farm. of Stokley Brothers 15 miles Northeast of Madisonville. To reach it from Madisonville to Vonore, there take the Ballplay Road.
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The Druid Hill Baptist Church and Cemetery are located three miles East of Tellico Plains along the road leading to the Big Creek Community.
The Druid Hill Baptist Church was constituted in 1934 with the Rev. Horace Atkins as first pastor. In order to secure the plot wanted, land for the church and cemetery was bought from two different people. Most of the church grounds was purchased from Fred C. Payne and the greater part of the cemetery was bought from Ben Johnson.
The property comprised approximately 1 1/2 acres. There are only three graves in the cemetery as yet. The first person buried in Druid Hill Baptist Church Cemetery was January 7, 1934.
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Date: Jan. 6, 1939
This is the burial ground of two families. The Wm. Duggan family and A. C. Hamby family. Wm. Duggan was a descendant of Hugh and Matilda Duggan who migrated from Sevier Co., when this part of the State was being settled. The Hamby family migrated from North Carolina soon after settlement began in Monroe County.
This cemetery is about 20 miles South of Madisonville, and can best be reached from Madisonville by going to Mt. Vernon then to Jalapa (or Brown Hill School), then to Ivy. The cemetery is on the farm of Wm. Hamby.
There are 16 inscriptions and 11 unmarked graves.
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Date: Feb. 7, 1940
This cemetery was established on. the farm of Samuel Edington. It was a neighborhood cemetery as no one buried there, with the exception of two Axley children and members of the Edington family, has a tombstone, It was known as Edington family cemetery, but the Henleys owned the farm later, the cemetery is mostly known now as Henley Family Cemetery. It is located 5 miles North of Madisonville on the Morganton to Acorn Gap road on farm of A. C. Irvin. It Is about I mile West from road and the Irvin brick home and on a hill. It comprises 1/2 acre in the woods. There are 10 inscriptions; 15 graves marked with field stones and 35 unmarked graves. The cemetery has been discontinued. It is not known just when it was established but the oldest date is that of Abijah Fowler who was a Confederate Soldier and was killed or shot from ambush May 27, 1864. He was a son-in-law of Samuel Edington. Fowler soldier information and much of the family history was secured from Abijah Fowler's daughter, Sarah Prances Fowler Lowry, who is over 80 years of age.
Samuel Edington married Fannie Browder. He was from Greene Co., Tennessee and his wife from, Lenore City, Tennessee or that section. He either entered or purchased early a tract of land at or by where cemetery is -.he later purchased land until he owned possibly twelve hundred acres in this section. He was very likely a brother of Jessee Edington of McMinn County.
Samuel and Fannie Edington were the parents of two daughters; Mary Ann and Eliza Jane.
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The Eleazer Camp Ground M. E. Church South and Cemetery are located about 1 1/2 miles Southeast of Mt. Vernon. Mt. Vernon is approximately 9 miles South of Madisonville on the road leading to Tellico Plains. The site for both church and cemetery was on the land of Col. Joseph Boyd and is said to have been selected by the Rev. Wm. G. Brownlow, "The Fighting Parson," who later became governor of Tennessee. The earliest inscription is that of Thomas M. Boyd, son of Joseph & Margaret Boyd, who died Oct. 3, 1833. His was not, however, the first interment in the cemetery. The name of the first person buried there is not known but it is known that the first burial was not much earlied than 1833. The cemetery now covers about 3 acres of land. Where the log school house once stood, is now a part of the' cemetery. Soldiers buried there are Pvt. Peter Davis, Mexican War; Capt. Joseph Marr, Confederate; Lt. Robert R. Winn, Confederate; Major Benj. P. Reagon, Confederate; Pvt. Houston Wilburn, Federal; Pvt. Robert London, Federal; Pvt. Thurber McConkey, World War, killed in France. Information regarding the above soldiers was securied from John Lee, of Mt. Vernon. Preachers buried at Eleazer Include the Rev. C. M. James, M. E. South; the Rev. Melvin Smith, M. E. South; the Rev. Louis Miller; M. E. South; the Rev. John Burger, Sr., M. E. South. Postmasters of Mt. Vernon buried here are: Grimes A. Spillman, Postmaster at time of Civil War; Wm. M. Lee; Newton S. Stizlar; Wm. M. Stizlar and James M. McConkey.
There are 345 Inscriptions, 127 field stones and approximately 170 unmarked graves in Eleazar Cemetery. Three inscriptions have been destroyed.
The Rev. Wm. G. Brownlow was pastor of the Tellico Plains Circuit, of the Methodist Church one year 1830 – 1831. The Circuit included the newly established Eleazer Camp Ground M. E. Church South. The only story told of disturbance of worship in those early days was once when Brother Brownlow was preaching. He stopped long enough to find the offender and deal with him according to the name he gained for himself and then returned to his sermon. The Rev. W. H. H. Duggan, another pioneer Methodist circuit rider, was a member of Eleazer Camp Ground Methodist Church. When the break in Methodism came in 1842, he being a union sympathizer, withdrew in to M. E. membership, the Eleazer Church changing into the Southern Methodist body. Two log buildings were originally erected on the above site, church and school. The Rev. W. W. Byott, the Rev. Thomas, the Rev. Joseph Wiggins, and the Rev. Hasten Caste were some of the pastors of the log church. The arbor was built on the log church prior to 1861. About 1865 - 1870 the log building was replaced by the frame building that burned Sunday March 26, 1933. The church and arbor were replaced as much like the old ones as possible. The Rev. Coleman Campbell was probably the pastor at that time. Sampson Holcomb was the head carpenter, assisted by Crawford Collaque, Joseph Marr, and others. The Trustees were: Dr. Louis Miller, James A. Dyer (both local preachers), G. A; Spillman, Joseph Boyd, and Richard Marshall. About five and one half acres were deeded to them by Col. Joseph Boyd, Sept. 4, 1871 but the deed has been lost. The trustees disagreed on the length of the building, and so when the sills had been laid, some men came one night and sawed off ten feet, making the ten feet shorter than originally planned. Once when the Rev. J. C. Harris was preaching to a crowded congregation be said that the foundation was laid ten feet long, but the devil cut off the sills. Eleazer became an important gathering place for camp meetings. Camp cabins were built around the church on three sides and people gathered annually for many years. It is estimated that four thousand people have been there on one camp meeting Sunday. In the early days they came in wagons drawn by oxen, cooked on one common fire and slept in the camps. The preachers camped in the church. The Rev. Uriah Payne from McMinn always came and camped in the school. Camps were owned by Col. Joseph Boyd, Joseph Marr, G. A. Spillman, Landerman Cardin, John Burger, Benj. Ellis, Wm. Richeson, James McConkey, Larkin Cardin and others. The camp meetings were both international and interracial. The colored people not only attended camp meetings, but many were members of the church. As above stated the church was established in 1830-1831 with Wm. G. Brownlow as 1st pastor and for both church and school as well as the cemetery given by Col. Joseph Boyd.
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Date: Feb. 23 & 29, 1940
The Forkners Chapel Southern Methodist Church and Cemetery are located, 7 miles North of Madisonville and 3 1/2 miles Southeast of Sweetwater In the Fork Creek Community. To reach the cemetery take the highway from Madisonville to Sweetwater and turn right at Howards Springs onto road leading to Vonore, go to the Forkner farm now owned by Joseph Frank Forkner and take the road to the left and follow for about one mile then turn right. Cemetery is along this road about 1/2 mile distance. There are 6 graves with inscriptions; 18 marked by field stones and 20 without markers. The church was established about close of Civil War on ˝ acre of land given by Thomas Forkner. At first a large shed was built but about 1870 a church building was placed on the property. Lawrence and Thomas Forkner were main contributors. Before this church was established, there was a school house on the Lawrence Forkner Sr., farm, that was used as a community church. The following preachers are buried here: The Rev. Samuel Edward Hope, the Rev. John Bradshaw. Two Confederate Soldiers are buried here: Thomas Robinson and --------- Bradshaw.
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Date: Feb. 29, 1940
The Lawrence Forkner Family Cemetery is 6 miles North of Madisonville or about 5 miles Southeast of Sweetwater. To be reached from either Sweetwater of Madisonville go on the highway between them to Howards Springs, then on to the Rockville road to the farm now owned by Joseph Frank Forkner where the cemetery consisting of about 1 acre is located. The cemetery was established on the farm of Lawrence Forkner, Sr., in 1856 as a family cemetery. There are others who are buried there but none of them has a tombstone, except Nancy A. Lowry and Wm. H. Fridley. Probably none other of the non-relatives will have tombstones. No one has been buried here for about 30 years and not likely will be. There are 15 inscriptions; 20 graves marked with field stones and about 20 unmarked graves. The unmarked graves are not all graves of the Forkner family. These graves, however, will probably never be marked and the cemetery has been listed as the Forkner Family Cemetery.
The Forkner family history is as follows: Lawrence Forkner was born in North Carolina in 1804. His wife, Jestina (Jestuana) Golden, was born in North Carolina in 1805. Eight children were born to this union; one In North Carolina the others in Tennessee. The family moved to Tennessee about 1830 or 1829 and settled on Fork Creek in Monroe County. Lawrence Forkner was probably the first to make the cradle with fingers used in cutting wheat in this part of the country. He also operated a factory and engaged in the manufacture of chewing tobacco. One of the oldest churches in this part of the county was founded on his property, adjoining the homestead, about the year 1840, where until about the year 1862. Then his sons, Thomas and Lawrence, led in erecting of a new building on the present site of the Forkners Chapel Southern Methodist Church,
Lawrence Forkner lived to be 84 years old and his wife, Jestina (Jestuana), died at the aged of 75 years. A list of their children and grand children follows: Their first child, Sarah was born In N. C. in. 1828. She married Pleas Davis. Two children were born to Sarah and Pleas Davis, William and Hugh. Sarah and Pleas moved to Texas soon after marriage. There may have, been more than the two mentioned children. Sometimes between the birth of the first (Sarah) and the second (Thomas), Lawrence and Jestuana moved from North Carolina to Monroe County, Tennessee. Thomas their second child was born in 18331 according to the family but the tombstone inscription gives July 3, 1830 as the date of his birth. He married Julia Ann McGuire. Six children were born to this union, John, Lawrence, Steve, James, Thomas, Nannie. Three are still living as follows, Lawrence in Monroe County, Tennessee, Thomas, Colorado Springs, Colo., Nannie, Chattanooga, Tennessee. John was residing in Loudon County, Tennessee at tire of his death. Steve before his death lived in Monroe County. James, lived in State of Washington at his death. Thomas the father of the above children gave the land for the Forkners Chapel Southern Methodist Church and he and his brother Lawrence were the leaders in the erection of the church. Thomas was Superintendent of the Sunday School at the above church for forty years. Joseph the third child of Lawrence & Jestuana was born in 1833. He married Minervia Haley. Four children were born to this union as follows: Susie, Lawrence, Thomas and John. Joseph was killed during the Civil War while a soldier in the Federal Army. His children were raised by his brother Thomas. Upon reaching maturity they moved to West to the Indian Territory. Notherin is known of them now but all are supposed to be dead. John the fourth child of Lawrence & Jestuana was born in 1835. He married Bettie Nichols. They had one child named Bettie. John was killed while serving in the Federal Army during the Civil War. His widow and daughter moved to Illinois. Bettie, the daughter married a man by the name of Luracen. She is now dead. Lawrence the fifth child was born Feb. 7, 1839. He married Clara Johnston in 1865 of Monroe County. They were the parents of the following five children; Joseph, Franklin, Fred, Lela, William and Grace. He, the father of above children, was a soldier in the Federal army and a Methodist Minister. He died Aug. 30, 1881 at the old home place on Fork Creek in Monroe County, Tennessee. Three of his children are still living as follows: Franklin lives at the old home place on Fork Creek. William lives at Sweetwater, Tenn., and Lela, who married Samuel. Scott, lives at Tarrytown, New York. Fred or (Ferd) died in 1933 leaving a widow, Mrs. Eva Wilkerson Forkner. Grace, who married Oscar Bolton, died in 1920. Elizabeth, the sixth child was born in 1841. She married Jeff (Thomas J.) Nicholds. They were the parents of one child, a son, Joseph, when they moved to the Indian Territory about 1880. Not much is known about them since. Nancy the seventh child was born in 1844. She married Cap Parsley. They were the parents of four children as follows: Joseph or Joe, Lawrence, Lester, and Richard. Nancy and her husband moved West to the Indian Territory about 1880. All of their children are believed to be living with the exception of Joseph. (Note: Cap Parsley referred to, who married Nancy Forkner, was known to the Forkner family only as "Capp", so Cap does not seem to be a nick name. LMcC). James the eight child was born in 1848. He married Sally Orr. They were the parents of five children as follows: Joe or Joseph, John Lessie, Lizzie, Scruggs. He was a Baptist Minister. He and his family moved west to the Indian Territory about the year 1880. All his children are believed to be living at present, with the exception of Joe. The above list of eight are all the children of Lawrence and Jestuana Forkner were parents of. They owned a good farm on Fork Creek consisting of around five or six hundred acres. The old homestead is still owned by the Forkner Family. It is now owned by Joseph Frank Forkner. It has been owned by the Forkners for over one hundred years.
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Date: Jan. 1939
The Graves Family Cemetery is located 19 miles South of Madisonville on the farm of Mrs. Myrtle Q. Gowan. To reach the cemetery from Madisonville take the Mt. Vernon road to Jalapa, there take road leading toward Ivy.
There are 5 inscriptions and no unmarked graves.
Benjamin Graves married Rachel Asher. They lived at New River, Yancy Co. N. C. Their son, Solomon, married Nancy Kinnick,; Polly married --- Braden; Betty married Mike Perkins; William married --- McGinty; Millie never married but was the mother of James, Alfred, Samuel, Harrison and a girl who married ----- Thompson. Solomon and Nancy Graves were the parents of: Granville, Eliza, Rachel, Sarah and John L. Granvile W., married Bethia C. Stephens; Eliza, married Solomon Helton; Rachel married John Wickinson; Sarah married James H. Bailey; John L. married Sarenne Tate. Granville W. and Bethia C. Graves were the parents of Catherine who married Dr. Grimshaw; Eliza & Solomon Helton were the parents of Mary, Thomas and Nancy Jenny. Mary married ----; Thomas married -------- ; Nancy Jenny never married. Rachel and John Wilkinson were the parents of Sallie, Houston, Homer, Benjamin and Neoma. Sallie married Hugh Smith; Souston married Perky Hampton; Homer married Kattie Eubanks; Benjamin married Hannah Eubanks; Neoma married Wm. Anderson. Sarah & James H. Bailey were the parents of Charles M., Walter R., Nancy O., George W., James M., Myrtle Q., and Minnie E. Charles M. married Martha Seaton; Walter R., married Nellie Bell; Nancy O., never married; George W., married Rachel Maloney; James never married; Myrtle Q., married Robert Gowan; Minnie E., married Tilden Joiner. John L. and Sarenne S. Graves never had any children.
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Date: Jan. 25, 1939
It is not known just when the Griffith Cemetery was established. Years ago there was a Methodist Church not far away called Center Methodist Church. The church also owned a plot of land for a cemetery but it was never used. Burials were made in the Griffith Cemetery.
This cemetery possibly was established before the Griffith family owned the land or soon thereafter, although they came to Monroe County early and either entered or bought a large boundry of land where this cemetery is located. The Griffith family were prominent in early days of the county. The graveyard is 5 miles East of Madisonville on the road leading to Hopewell.
There are 31 inscriptions and possibly 75 or more unmarked graves. Several Negroes are buried in this cemetery. Some of them were slaves of the Griffith family.
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The Hall Cemetery is 2 1/2 miles North of Vonore on the farm of J. D. Ramsey on the Little Tennessee river. The farm was formerly owned by Judge John Blair and before that by the Hall family. Wm. Hall entered 260 acres of land. It is not known when the cemetery was established but there was a church at this place, it seems, very soon after land in this section was entered. The church, however, has been discontinued about 75 years. There have been several markers with inscriptions but they are weather worn or gone now. There is one acre or more of this cemetery which contains 3 readable inscriptions 30 field stones, 6 inscriptions that have been destroyed and 60 or more unmarked graves.
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This cemetery was established on the Secrecy farm, but is now owned by Wm. Hamby. It is located about 20 miles South of Madisonville at Ivy. Only field rocks mark the graves and there are three or more graves without any markers at all.
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The Hawkins Cemetery was established in 1850, maybe earlier, on the Hawkins farm or possibly on land of Allen D. Gentry. Allen D. Gentry, who is buried here, entered and acquired several hundred acres of land along the Tellico River. He was a Justice of the Peace for several terms, being a Justice at the time of his death. The cemetery is on the property of Ruth Hammontree and Rebecca Hawkins, about 13 miles East of Madisonville. It may be reached by following the Povo Road to road on West side of the Tellico River and there turning down the river road. There are 18 inscriptions and possibly fifty unmarked graves.
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Date: 30-31, 1939
The family graveyard of Daniel Heiskell, a pioneer citizen of Monroe County, Tennessee, and his descendants, is located at the family homestead about a half mile East of Sweetwater where the founder of this family originally settled where he moved to Monroe County from upper East Tennessee. The present owner is Bruner Axley.
Eight marked graves are found in the graveyard, and it is possible that some of the slaves who belonged to the Heiskell family prior to the Civil War are also inferred here in the upper right hand corner.
For a history of this branch of the Heiskell family see "History of the Sweetwater Valley" by W. B. Lenoir, pages 159-175.
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Date: Feb. 1, 1939.
The Samuel Henderson Family Cemetery is on the farm of Mrs. Robert Burchfield, R. D. F. No. 4, Madisonville Tennessee. This is the old Henderson farm and is located about 3 miles East of Madisonville, just off the road leading to Hopewell Springs. There are 23 inscriptions and no unmarked graves.
The children of Mary Ann Edington and Abijah Fowler married as follows: Samuel A. never married; Mary Jane married Chas. Price. Lived at Decatur, Ala.; Sarah Francis married Joseph R. Lowry of Monroe County.
The children of Mary Ann Edington Fowler and Allen M. Henley, married as follows: Thomas Owen, born June 6, 1869 died April 7, 1938, never married; Authur R. born Jan. 14, 1871 married Virginia Smith, died Oct. 15, 1915. No children were born to above couple. Inez, born Jan. 21, 1873 married J. D. Clark. They now live at Portersvilles, California. Josie married Oscar M. Clark. They now live at Summerton, Arizonia. Maggie married Nick B. Hall. She is dead, buried in Southern M. E. Cemetery at Vonore, Tennessee. Bettie, died July 9, 1875 and the last three were born Feb. 18, 1875.
Children of Mary Jane Fowler and Charles Price were as follows: Mary Who married Pinkington, he died then she married a Mr. Moody. Danella, no record; Emma, no record, Annie, no record, Wesley, no record. Children of Sarah Frances Fowler and Joseph H. Lowry were as follows: Mary Elizabeth, born May 25, 1882, married C. W. Lancaster, lived at Richmond, Cal.; Martha Jane, born Oct. 1, 1883 married Ben Hall. Ruth born, Sept. 21, 1885 died. Samuel Anderson, born Feb. 3, 1887, married Bessie Lomax. Minnie, born July 10, 1888, married T. W. Brunner. David A., born April 21, 1890 married Maggie Nunn, and live in New Mexico. Bertha, born Oct. 17, 1891 married S. F. Betifish. Inez born Sept. 1, 1893, not married. Lives in Chicago, Ill. Margaret F., born Oct. 3, 1895 not married. Authur Henley born June 27, 1899, died July 13, 1899. Virginia. Lee, born Aug. 20, 1900, married Henry McConkey of Monroe County. Live at Lenore City, Tennessee. Children of Inez Henley and husband J. D. Clark are as follows: Ethel, died; Helen married Harry Gunning, Eugene, died at age of 2 yrs; Walter married ------------ ; Aleen married -------- ; Richard married ----------. Children of Josie Henley and husband Oscar M. Clark are as follows: Ernest never married; Clifford, married; Owen, married; Sadie, married; Morris, married; Arthur never married. Children of Maggie Henley and Nick B. Hall are as follows: Lottie married Pat Horner; James died, never married; Thomas married Elberta Steele; Barksdale, married Annie Giles; Artie Lou, died at age 2 yrs; Frances married Hick Isbell. She is dead. Allen Married Myrtus Giles; Bettie not married; Maggie, not married; Dortha, not married; Children of Eliza Jane Fowler and husband James R. Henley married as follows: Mary, married Ashley Johnson; Samuel, married Emma Anderson; Charles, married Ressa Johnson; Nell, not married; Georgia married Frank, Johnston; Frank, married Nandy Johnston., Maude, married Mack Lowery; Joseph married Cora Rogers; John, married Louella Huston and Georgia, oldest child died in infancy.
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The Henley Cemetery was established on the Henley Plantation on the Tennessee River but it is now known as the Bacon Cemetery. The farm is owned by Mrs. James L. Bacon. It has never been owned by anyone except the Henley family or their descendents. It is located about 22 miles Northeast of Madisonville. To reach the cemetery go via highway to Knoxville, after crossing Niles Ferry take the road up the Tennessee river to Bacons Ferry. There are 3 unmarked graves.
Col. David Henley of Georgetown, Mass., was a descendant of King Egbert, the first king of England, The Henley's of the early pioneer days of Knox, Blount and Monroe Counties were very outstanding. Arthur H. Henley Sr., son of Col. David Henley, married Ann Evelyn Moore. Their daughter, Ann, married John Ross Parshall. He died and she married James Lydall Bacon. The Bacons were related to General Robert E. Lee. Elizabeth M. Henley married Barcley McGhee. She died and he married her sister, Mary K. Barcley McGhee was a son of John & Betsy McGhee. John McGhee owned approximately 78,000 acres of land in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. Charles Henley married Kittie, daughter of Joshua and Aphelia Jones, of South Carolina.
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Date: Feb. 16, 1940
The Hiwassee Holiness Church and Cemetery are located about 5 miles North of Madisonville and about 1mile North of Hiwassee College. The church was established about 1918 on land given by Wm. Worthy.
The first burial that of Elisha T. Clowers, was December 26, 1937. Vester Green gave 1 acre of land for the cemetery. It is fenced and is in excellent condition and has a beautiful location. There are 6 inscriptions and no unmarked graves.
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The George S. Howard Family Cemetery is located about 18 miles Northeast of Madisonville. The best route is the Niles Ferry road. Do not cross the Tennessee river but take the Citico road to the farm of Doctor Sharp. There are 8 inscriptions and 2 unmarked graves in the cemetery.
George S. Howard married Mattie A. Donohoo. They were the parents of: Thomas C., who married Alva, daughter of John B. and Sarah McGhee. They were the parents of Alliene born in 1897 and Irene born in 1895. She married Chas. Ray. Sallie S., married J. B., son of J. B. & Martha Moser. P. L. married A. L. Hitch. Henry J., never married; Earnest G., never married and George, married ------.
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Date: Nov. 1938.
John B. Hoyle and wife, Elizabeth, owned a farm. When they died they were buried on their farm. John B. Hoyl was probably the son of Thomas Hoyl. No dates or ages are given on the markers of John B. & Elizabeth Hoyl. It is believed they were about 65 or 70 years of age and that they died about 1860. There are only the two graves here. The cemetery is located 8 miles Southeast of Athens, just below Piney Grove School and near Longs Mill. It is on the farm of Walter Long.
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Date: August 23, 1939
The Peyton Hutson Family Cemetery is located on land originally entered by Peyton Hutson, approximately one and one half miles south of Madisonville.
Peyton Hutson and wife, Temperance, migrated from Virginia to Tennessee, being amoung the first people to come to this part of Monroe County. Nothing is known of their children but there was a family of Hudson in the Rockville community early. Although the name is spelled differently, it is believed that the families are the same. Both have been prominent in Monroe County.
Apparently there is but one unmarked grave. The graves are along an old fence row, at a cedar tree and covered with vines.
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The Descendants of Joshua Jones Cemetery is located about 22 miles North of Madisonville. To reach it take the road leading to Knoxville. At Niles Ferry instead of crossing the Tennessee river, turn up the river road known as the Citico road, and go to the Jones farm near the Bacon Ferry. The farm is now owned by J. P. Nbance. There are 8 inscriptions and 3 unmarked graves.
Joshua and Aphelia Jones lived in South Carolina and never moved to Tennessee. They were the parents of Thomas C., Joshua R., Charles C., O. L., William, John, Barrett, Sarah and Kittie. Charles C. married Margaret McGhee and Joshua R. married Lavenia McGhee. Margaret and Lavenia were daughters of Barcley and Mary K. Henley McGhee. Kittie married Charles Fairfax Henley. The McGhee's and Henley's were very wealthy and prominent people of Monroe Co.
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Date: Feb. 1, 1939.
The first Kimbrough to come to this country in colonial days was John Kimbrough, of Irish descent.
The next record concerns Bradley Kimbrough Sr., who married Sarah Thompson, a daughter of a wealthy planter of South Carolina. Their third son, Duke, was born in Rowan Co., North Carolina Nov. 19, 1762.
At the age of 21 years he came to what is now Jefferson Co, Tenn. He married Mary Gentry, a daugher of Robert Gentry, who lived near Dandridge. Gentry gave them a fine farm there, where they lived for some time. Then bought a farm near Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City).
To this union was born one child, Mary Kimbrough, who married William Chilton. Duke Kimbrough's wife having died, he then remarried. His second wife was Susan Hunter, daughter of Isaac Hunter of Washington County, Tennessee. To this union was born four sons, William, Isaac, John and Elisha. Duke's second wife died and he remarried again. His third wife was Eunice Carlock daughter of Christopher Carlock of near Dandridge. To this union was 9 children, 6 sons, and 3 daughters. Bradley and Robert G. Kimbrough were two of them. Duke Kimbrough became a Baptist in spite of his inherited prejudices which were strongly Episcopolian. Joined Baptist church that later became Dandridge church but then known is "Koonts Meeting House" 3 miles Northeast of Dandridge. Was 25th name on the membership roll. In July 1793 he was a leading member of the church. Ordained Aug. fourth Saturday 1797 at same church. He was pastor at that church from July 1799 to his death Sept. 21, 1849 -- over 50 years. Practically, Rev. Duke Kimbrough was a man of only two books - Bible and Hymn book. These he kept with him and constantly used - to young ministers especially he was living concordance to the Scriptures.
Duke Kimbrough's son, Isaac, married. Mary Randolph a daughter of James Randolph of Danuridge. He was born April 26, 1788. Duke's son, Bradley, Married Martha H., a daughter of John J. Whitaker of Mulberry, Lincoln County, Aug. 31, 1837. He was born Nov. 3, 1799. In 1822 be began reading law with Jacob Peck, who was a State Supreme Court Judge. In 1824 the Supreme Court, which sat at Rogersville, gave him license to practice. He then located at Madisonville where he practiced as a leading attorney for 10 years. He was a representative of Monroe County in the State Legislature and as a member, he was appointed a member of the State Convention which remodeled the State Constitution in 1834. He refused to be a candidate for reelection the following year but chose to be a minister of the Gospel. He was ordained a minister by the Madisonville Baptist church in 1835. He later moved to Mulberry, in Lincoln County. He died on June 30, 1874. Robert G., another son of Duke Kimbrough was born July 24, 1806. Tutored some at a Methodist College at New Market. On Jan. 23, 1836 he married Lemira A., a daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Wheeler of Campbell County near Jacksboro. Moved there and in 1844 moved to Knox County. Died at his farm in Marshall County near Mars Hill. on July 22 , 1879. Dukes son , William, married Elizabeth Molder (or Mohler) of Jefferson County. They moved to Monroe County in the early 1820's on a farm. They were the parents of eight children. Isaac Barton and John Mohler were two of them. William and Elizabeth both died before 1833 leaving several of their children quite young. Isaac Barton was only 7 years of age and there was one younger than he. Isaac Barton Kimbrough a grandson of Duke, was born Feb. 10, 1826 near Madisonville on July 29, 1847 at the age of twenty one, he married Mary J. Henderson. He was also ordained a Baptist Minister in Autumn of 1852 by Shady Grove Church. In 1875 he moved to what is now Jefferson City and became financial agent of Mossy Creek College or Carson College. In 1876 Carson College in recognition of his ability and merit, conferred upon him the honorary title, Doctor of Divinity. In 1879 he moved with his family to Texas settling in Collin County. He is buried at Plano, Texas. John Mohler Kimbrough, a grandson of Duke and a son of William, was born Dec. 10, 1813. He married Mary E. Ragon. The cemetery in question is his families. The Kimbrough family has been and still is one of Monroe County's outstanding families. There were several preachers and doctors of note among the Kimbrough family. The Kimbrough family is related to several influential families. Among them are the Cooke, Peck, Kefauver, Henderson, Reagon, Cantrell and other notable families. The Kimbrough Cemetery was established about 1820 on the Coldwell family farm, either as a Colwell family or as a neighborhood cemetery. There have been many burials in this cemetery, but none have tombstones except the Kimbroughs'. That is why it is known as the Kimbrough Cemetery. There are about 100 unmarked graves. The cemetery is located 3 miles East of Madisonville, on the old Henderson farm, on the road leading to Provo.
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This is a family cemetery but some persons other than members of the family are buried here. All those whose graves have markers are related to the Lindsey's except the Franklins. There are 40 inscriptions and 91 unmarked graves. Location is about 12 miles East of Madisonville on the Povo Road at Lindsey Bridge over Tellico river on the farm of John Bright.
David M. Lindsey married Elizabeth Lucas. They were both Kentuckians but moved to Monroe County in their early life and also in the early days of the county, secured land on the Tellico River.
They were the parents of 10 children; John, Wm., Isaac, Harvey, Alexander, Pierce, Alabama, Harriet, Mary and David. John married Josie Tallent; William married ---------- Millsaps and later ------- Vaughn; Isaac, married Elisabeth Burchfield; Harvey, never married; Alexander, married Rachel Barnett; Pierce, married Jane Rains, and died in Elk City, Okla.; Alabama, never married; Harriet, married Henry Harris; Mary, married Sam Yates and David married Melvina Tate.
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Date: Nov. 18, 1938
The tombstone of R. Mills, who died Dec. 7, 1864, records the earliest date of a death, and possibly the first burial in Little Toqua Baptist Church Cemetery. This was a neighborhood cemetery many years before the church was established. It is located 18 miles Northeast of Madisonville. To reach the cemetery take the Niles Ferry road to intersection of Vonore -Ball Play road, then Ball Play road to beyond Mt. Zion section, then turn left onto road leading toward Bacons Ferry. There are 105 inscriptions and approximately 100 unmarked graves in Little Toqua Cemetery.
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Date: June 2 & 5, 1939
The James Wright Long Family Cemetery was established on the farm of James Wright Long, who had entered the land. When the County was first opened for settlement, or possibly before, several of his wife's first cousins also came to this part of McMinn County and all lived within a radius of a few miles of each other. Among them were Isham Reynolds and his sisters; Elizabeth Reynolds who married William Maples; Alice Reynolds who married David Cantrell; Anne Reynolds, who married James Chesnutt; Jane Reynolds, who married Raleigh Chesnutt. The James Wright Long Family Cemetery is owned by Misses Nan and Grace Chestnutt, Route 2, Englewood, Tennessee. It is on the Chestnutt Dairy farm 7 miles Southeast of Athens just off the road leading from Athens to Etowah.
James Wright Long was born in Rockingham County, Va., Sept. 21, 1788 and died May 24, 1862. He emigrated with his parents to Hawkins Co., Tenn., when a small boy. He served in two campaigns as a volunteer in the War of 1812. He married Nancy Reynolds Aug. 18, 1814. Nancy Reynolds was a daughter of William and --- Kestuton Reynolds. Her brothers and sisters were: George R., born Feb. 7. 1787; John born May 6, 1791; Green, born Feb. 2, 1799 died Oct. 10, 1846 and buried at Zion Hill Baptist Church Cemetery; William born May 20, 1793, died Feb. 8, 1875; Hannah, born May 20, 1793 married Samuel Long, both buried at Zion Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. Hannah died Jan. 8, 1875; Zilpha married --- Brown and James.
Tradition has it that, two brothers, Isham and William (the latter the father of Nancy) sons of the 1st Isham Reynolds, born 1725 moved from Virginia to North Carolina, then to Hawkins Co., Tennessee where they settled in Carmichael Bottoms. Isham stayed in Hawkins County but William moved to near Philadelphia, Tenn. They were the grandsons of William Reynolds 1st, born in 16--. William Reynolds, it is believed married Miss --- Kestuton White in N. C. The children of James Wright Long and Nancy Reynolds Long were as follows: Lucy A. Long; Louisa Long; the Rev. William R. Long; Dr. John A. Long; the Rev. Carroll Long; Nancy Long; the Rev. J. Rufus Long; Dr. Albert Long; Mary Harriet Long; W. C. Long. Their history is as follows: Lucy A., born June 23, 1815; Louisa, born June 27, 1817; Rev. William R., born Feb. 18, 1819. He married Elizabeth Atlee of Athens, Tenn. The Atlee's came from Pennsylvania. Dr. John, A. Long was born Nov. 29, 1820. He was married three times. 1st time to Mahala Newman, 2nd time to Alice Chesnutt, 3rd time to Ella Dunn. The Rev. Carroll Long was born Nov. 26, 1823, married Nancy Sanders Oury of Wytheville, Va., August 20, 1851. Both buried at Wesleyann Southern M. E. Church Cemetery. He was for 20 years a Presiding elder of the Knoxville and Chattanooga District of M. E. Church, South. Nancy Long born Jan. 10, 1826, married John Goodner, of Cleveland, Tennessee. Rev. J. Rufus Long, born June 19, 1828. He taught school in North Carolina, married and moved North. Dr. Albert, born April 30, 1830, married, lived and died in Cleveland, Tennessee. Mary Harriet Long born Feb. 29, 1832, married William Shugart, of near her home. W. C. born Jan. 9, 1834, died in youth. The children of these children or the grandchildren of James Wright Long, are as follows: Children of Rev. William R. Long are Sarah, who married -- Sloan of Madisonville, Tenn., Rev. Carroll Long, a missionary 8 years to Japan, married, he was born Jan. 3, 1850 and died Sept. 4. 1890; Dr. E. A. married twice, lived in Johnson City, Tenn., died in Johnson City, Tenn. in 1936. Dr. Albert, married, now dead. Eugenia, married the Rev. ------ McIntire or McIntosh. Emma, married ------ Seymour, he died, then she married John Goodner, of Cleveland, Tenn. Belle, married Rev. Arnold of the Episcopal Church. Wilbur, married. Clara, married ---- Durham of Atlanta, Ga. Atlee, Lawyer, married twice. Nannie, one party says she died in youth another says she did not. Children of Dr. John A. Long are as follows; R. Q. S. married Ellen Chesnutt, both are dead. W. C. C. was a merchant and died unmarried. Walter, living at old home place unmarried. Alice, married Edd Hall living at Rockwall, Texas. Oscar, married Eula Barnel living at Rockwall, Texas. Maude, married Dr. Eugene Phillips, lived at Rockwood, Tennessee. Bascombe, married --- Benton. Dudley, married --- McKinzie. Mary, married Chas. Newton. Mattie, married --- Standefer. Children of Rev. Carroll Long and Nancy Sanders (Oury) Long are as follows: Nancy Sanders, born May 26, 1852 - died in infancy. Senah, and Elizabeth Frances both were born Sept. 9, 1855. James Carroll, born March 27, 1858. John Alberts born Feb.17, 1860. Mary Louisa, born Nov. 23, 1862. George Rufus, born Feb. 10, 1866. Their history: Senah, married Dr. Benj. Cravey of Lowndesboro, Alabama. Elizabeth Frances, married William B. Blair of near Etowah. James Carroll, married Maggie Reynolds of near Etowah, Tenn. He was a merchant. John Albert, married, Mary E. Winter of Bristol, Va. Mary Louisa, married A. B. Breeden of Decatur, Tenn. George Rufus married Emma Reynolds of near Etowah, Tenn. Nancy Long, who married John Goodner, did not have any children. Children of Rev. J. Rufus Long are as follows: Rufus, no record; Pierce, no record; Sallie, no record, others also, no record. Children of Dr. Albert Long are as follows: no record. Children of Mary Harriet Long and husband William Shugart are as follows: Nannie Shugart, married -- Boggess of Ten Mile, Tenn. Leslie Shugart, unmarried living near Athens, Tenn. James, died and buried at Chattanooga. Will, no record. Rev. E. A. of M. E. Church South, last of Marion, Va. No record of any children of W. C. Long. He died young. Great grandchildren of James Wright Long are as follows: Children of Sarah Long Sloan are: Molly, Carroll, Theadore; Children of Dr. E. A. Long are as follows: Mary, Dr. Carroll Long of Johnson City, Tenn., Frances, Eddie; Children of Emma Long Seymour are: Atlee Seymour, died in Philipine Island during the World War. Wingfield, married Mr. M. L. Harris. Living at Cleveland.. Tenn. Children of Belle Long Arnold are: Paul, Pauline, George. Pauline married her cousin Mr. Durham, living in Atlanta, Ga., in 1936. Above great grandchildren of James Wright Long were also the grand children of Rev. William R. Long. The following are the grand children of Dr. John A. Long: Children of R. Q. S. Long. Mahala, married James Richardson, living near Etowah, Tenn., at Wesleyann. Children of Oscar Long are: Carroll, Fanny, Edith. Children of Mary Long Newton are: Maude, dead, Bessie, at Deckard, Tenn., Walter, at Chattanooga, Tenn. and Doc, dead at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mary Lee, at New York City. Children of Mattie Long Standifer are: Will; Mae, at Chattanooga; Clyde, in Florida; Herman; Joe in California and Harry in Florida. Grand children of Rev. Carroll Long: Children of Senah Long Cravey are: Elizabeth Cravey, living at Athens, Tenn.; William Benjamin, Pharmist Died in Rockwall, Texas in 1911, buried at Athens, Tenn., unmarried. Carroll Long Cravey, Pharmist also Postal Clerk at Etowah, Tenn., for about 25 years, died at Foree Hospital, Athens, Nov. 18, 1937, buried at Athens, was unmarried. Nannie Laura Cravey, married Fritz Long, living at Athens, Tenn., Sallie Penelope Cravey, married Bryan Clark, living at Athens, Tenn.; James Cravey merchant, married Alice MacKenzie of Decatur, Tenn., and parents of Alice Vandine, born Apr. 6, 1938. Children of Elizabeth Frances Long Blair are: Ben C. Blair, died 1910, buried at Weslyann M. E. Church Cemetery. Flora Blair, living at Athens, Tenn.; Albion Blair, died in youth buried at Wesleyann Cemetery; William B. Blair, Salesman and merchant, married Nina Farley of Virginia and parents of Betty Catherine. They lived at Athens, Tenn.; Carroll K. Blair, Civil Engineer, served in World War, died 1929 buried at Athens, Tenn. Children of James Carroll Long & Maggie Reynolds Long are: Carroll Long, conductor on L. & N. Railroad, married Ocie Barnett they are parents of J. C. & Katherine. They live at Etowah, Tenn.; James B. Long, married and living at Nashville, Tenn.; Charles Long, deceased buried at Etowah, Tenn.; Jewell Long, deceased, buried at Etowah, Tenn.; Dr. Clarence Long Pharmist, married and have two children. They live at Knoxville, Tenn. Children of Mary Louisa Long Breeden are: Carroll C. Breeden, merchant married Kate --- and parents of Katherine and Carroll Jr. They live at Los Angeles, Calif.; Sam Breeden, Salesman lives at Memphis, Tenn.; Edna Breeden, married --- Murphy, lives at Atlanta, Ga. Frank Breeden, Salesman, deceased; Paul Breeden, Salesman, living at Memphis, Tenn., and George. Children of George R. Long are: Dr. Robert R. Long, Pharmist married Ruby ---. They are the parents of: Robert Jr. and George. They live at Maryville, Tenn. Oury Long, married, deceased no children. Sidney Long, married twice, living in Montana; Ben C. Long, deceased; Emma Long, living at Knoxville, Tenn. Children of John Albert Long are: Kate Foster Long married Fred Stone of Athens, Term., living at Beckley, West Va.; Nancy Sanders Long, married Frank B. Bell of Bristol, Virginia. They were parents of: Mary Jean Bell and Nancy Bell. They live at Knoxville, Tenn.; John Carroll Long, died in the World War in Fance. Children of Nannie Shugart Boggess are: Willie, Frank, of Sweetwater, Tenn., and Mary Lee. As the record shows quite a few of the Long family have been doctors, preachers or some other skilled profession. They have been leaders all along.
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Lula Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery was establiched about 50 years ago and discontinued about 45 years ago. Lula M. E. Church was constituted about 1880. Land for both church and cemetery was secured from Ferring Milligan. The location is five miles down the Tellico river road, from Tellico Plains, on the bank of the river. Tellico Plains is 16 miles South of Madisonville. The cemetery is grown up with bushes and trees and there does not seem to have been but two graves.
When the town of Madisonville was laid off in 1832, the Methodist Denomination was given a grant for the plot where the church and cemetery are located. When part of the Methodist churches in 1848 seceded, then soon the Madisonville Church was organized into the Southern Methodist Church organization. There hare been four church buildings on this location. Dr. D. B. Carter whose wife is buried in this cemetery was one of the founders of Hiwassee College. A. T. Hicks was for years, Clerk of the County Court. District Judge Hicks and the Hicks buried here are descendants of the same family that came to this country in the early settlement days. Some of the members of the Hicks' family, as well as many others have been removed to other cemeteries on account of widening of streets, etc. Three southern (Confederate) soldiers were killed and buried here, but is said that their markers have been removed to make room for street widening. It is also said that (Miss) Sue Meek and possibly other members of the Meek family are buried here. Also seems that there are graves under the church, therefore it is impossible to closely estimate the number of unmarked graves, however there are possibly fifteen unmarked graves. The location is, three blocks south of the court house in Madisonville.
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Date: Oct. 28, 1938
Two brothers, John and Samuel McCroskey, who were born Virginia, entered two adjoining tracts of land in Monroe County on which they later established their family cemetery. They owned several slaves and some of them are buried in this cemetery. The McCroskeys were prominent people. Thomas and his son, Barrett McCroskey, were lawyers. All graves that have markers are graves of members of the family. There are 13 inscriptions, approximately 30 unmarked graves. The cemetery is located 7 miles North of Madisonville via Hiwassee College and Rockville section. It is between Rockville and Burton Hill School on the farm of Arthur Borden.
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The McCulloch and Hardin Cemetery was established years ago before these families owned the farm on which it is located. The McCulloch children buried here are the children of T. D. & M. L. McCulloch. W. W. Hardin is a great grandson of J. C. R. L. McCulloch & Polly Hardin. The families are related. Several members of each family are buried at Mt. Zion Baptist Cemetery. The cemetery is about 15 miles Northeast of Madisonville. It may be reached by taking the highway toward Niles Ferry and at Vonore taking the road known as the Vonore Ballplay road to Mt. Zion Baptist Church. There go left to the farm of Ben Davis. There are 5 _ inscriptions and 8 unmarked graves.
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Date: Feb. 1939.
The Hannibal McSpadden Family Cemetery is about 5 miles Northeast of Tellico Plains on the road leading down the East side of the Tellico River. Tellico Plains is 16 miles South of Athens.
The Cemetery was established by Hannibal McSpadden at the death of his wife, Nicy, on June 2, 1901. An iron fence surrounds the cemetery which covers a space of about 12 X 15 feet. Hannibal McSpadden was the son of Samuel McSpadden. Hannibal had two brothers, Teed and Tine. Hannibal and Nicy did not have any children but raised Grace Giles, a daughter of Horace and ---- Giles. She married ------ Patterson. Most of the older members of Hannibal McSpadden's family are buried at Tellico Baptist Church, farther down the Tellico River.
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The Millsaps Farm Cemetery is about 27 miles up the Little Tennessee river from Vonore on the river road leading into the Unicoi Mountains. It is over one ledge of the mountain from the river about 2 miles and on the nearest public road to the river. The cemetery was established at the time of the Civil War. Persumably the Millsaps family entered this land. It is now owned by Mrs. Mary Millsaps. The cemetery has been discontinued for over 50 years. It is in the woods and covers about 50 X 30 feet of ground. Vonore is 9 miles North of Madisonville. There are 2 inscriptions, 6 graves marked with field stones and 4 or more unmarked graves.
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The Joshua Moses Family Cemetery is located about 7 miles Southeast of Madisonville. It may be reached by taking the road leading to Tellico Plains to the road leading to Big Creek, then the road via Hicks School to the farm of Joseph Moses on Laurel Mt. The cemetery is not reserved in deed. The first person buried in this cemetery was Andrew, a son of Joshua Moses. The grave was on the Joshua Moses farm before the Civil War. The cemetery is still in use and contains 1/4 acre of land. The following do not have dates as to when they were born or died. Most of the other members of the Moses family are buried at Big Creek Baptist Church Cemetery except possibly about 20 that are buried here that don't have inscriptions. This cemetery has 6 graves with inscriptions, 11 marked with field stones and 8 unmarked graves.
Joshua Moses was possibly from S. C. He entered a tract of land in Monroe County Northeast of this place along the Tellico river and sold it and entered or bought 120 acres at this location. He married Sarah Sample. They were the parents of: John, James, Anderson, Edward, Samuel, Jessee, Nancy and Andrew. They married as follows: John married Pollie Morgan; James married Martha Dulin; Anderson married Gadd then -- Hicks and (name not known); Edward married --- Hicks; Samuel married Sussie McKinney; Jessee married Texie Walker; Nancy married Thomas Saffles; Andrew never married. James and Anderson Moses were confederate soldiers according to statement of Joseph Moses.
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Date: Feb, 51 1940
The Mt. Isabell Baptist Church Cemetery is located 6 miles East of Tellico Plains on the road leading to Rafter. Tellico Plains is 16 miles South of Madisonville. The church was constituted in 18--. William Williams gave. approximately one acre of land for space for a school house, a church house and a cemetery but later the church was moved across the road on to land secured from John Freeman. Now the cemetery covers land where the church once was located. The cemetery covers one half acre approximately. There are no Negroes buried here. Cemetery is still in use. There are 61 graves with inscriptions; 54 marked with field stones and 6 unmarked graves.
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The Mt. Zion Baptist Church was organized in or about 1840. It has been at three locations but all within a radius of less. than one mile. The cemetery was established possibly about the same date on the farm of William Gray either as a family or community cemetery, later changing to a community cemetery. The inscriptions indicate the graveyard was established at a much later date than 1840, as the oldest section of the cemetery has very few markers. It is noted that a large majority of persons buried here died when young. It is estimated that there are 400 or 500 unmarked graves. Mt. Zion Cemetery is about 15 miles Northeast of Madisonville. To reach it take highway to Knoxville but when even with Vonore, take the Vonore to Ballplay road. The cemetery is located about 1/2 mile in front and across the road from the church. There are 262 Inscriptions.
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The Mullins Cemetery is on the farm of Robert Mullins about 12 miles East of Madisonville. It may be reached by following the Povo Road to edge of farm of Russell Lindsey, then turn left.
This is a neighborhood cemetery and there are 36 graves with inscriptions approximately hundred unmarked graves.
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New Bethel Holiness Church and Cemetery are located 9 miles South of Madisonville. To reach them take Tellico Plains road to Hauns or Watkins Mill then road leading to McConkeys School; or, go 1 1/2 miles down the L. & N. Railroad from Mt. Vernon to the farm of Henry Harris. The land for both the church and cemetery were furnished by Henry Harris in 1923. The earliest inscription is dated Oct. 2. 1923. The graves cover about 1/4 acre but the cemetery comprises 1 acre. There is no fence. The church is practically abandoned but the cemetery is still used. There are 10 inscriptions; 12 graves marked by field stones & 18 unmarked graves.
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Date: Jan. 1939
The grave of Mary Ann Nicholds is located on the farm of Nancy Cable. The farm is near Mt. Pleasant School or about 7 miles up Citico Creek near where the creek road and the Little Tennessee river roads intersect, and about 35 miles Northeast Madisonville.
She and her husband entered a large tract of this mountain land. He died several years before she did. They were the parents of several children.
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In 1853 William Watson and his wife, Rebecca, gave a three acre plot of land as follows: One acre for school grounds, one acre for church grounds and one acre for a cemetery. The Notchey Creek Baptist Church was established that year. The cemetery had already been established for several years on the Watson farm.. The burial of Hughes Torbett, who died Aug. 11, 1844, is the oldest one indicated by markers, but George Crofts; was buried about the same date.
William Watson entered and acquired over 800 acres of land surrounding the cemetery. It is believed that one fourth of those buried in this cemetery were descendants of William Watson. Also a majority were relatives of each other.
The cemetery is at Notchey Creek 4 miles South of Madisonville on the Tellico Plains Pike.
There are 331 inscriptions and 300 or more unmarked graves in this cemetery. Many buried here were 70 years or older when they died and many were parents of from 8 to 19 children.
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Date: Feb. 12, 1940
The Old Sweetwater Baptist Church and Cemetery are located 2 miles South of Philadelphia or about 5 miles North of Sweetwater and on highway between the two above towns.
According to the Baptist minutes this is the oldest Baptist Church in the County having been constituted in 1820.
The oldest Inscriptions is that of Alie Cleveland who died Nov. 3, 1821.
A book, "Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers", by J. J. Barnett states the following in substance: The Rev. Cleveland moved to the Sweetwater Valley in 1821. He united with the church at Sweetwater the fourth Saturday in Jan. 1822. He gave the ground for the meeting house and cemetery of the Old Sweetwater Church and largely built the house, boarding the hands and furnishing teams and Negroes to drive them as well as to do other work in connection with the building. The house was of brick. It is supposed to be same building as is there now.
The cemetery covers about 3 acres and is on the Equitable Life Insurance Company farm, but supposedly deeded by the Rev. Eli Cleveland to the church, which is on a different plot about Ľ mile North.
The cemetery is still in use. The Southwest corner is the Negro section. Very few, if any, Negroes will in future be buried here.
As the Rev. Eli Cleveland was possibly the most prominent person buried in the Old Sweetwater Baptist Church Cemetery there is a history of the Cleveland family given following the inscriptions.
The Clevelands are a numerous and noted family, both in England and in the United States. A book has been written which gives the history of the family as far back as the year 1200, showing various spellings of the name to be Cliffland, Clyveland, Cliveland, Clieveland, Cleaveland and Cleveland.
Eli Cleveland, born in Wilkes County N. C., was a son of Capt. Robert Cleveland and a nephew of Col. Benj. Cleveland, both of Revolutionary fame. It is thought that their father settled in Orange County, Va., about the year 1700.
Eli Cleveland married Mary Ragon of Ashe Co. N. C. They were parents of four sons and four daughters. They moved to Knox Co., Tenn. in 1817 and to Sweetwater Valley in Monroe Co., in 1821. He owned a fine farm, many slaves and thirty thousand dollars on interest at his death. It is said that Cleveland,
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Date: December 1, 1939.
In 1908 one acre of land was given by Charles S. Sawinson for a church and cemetery. The church was established that year hut the first burial was that of Estell E., daughter of J. A. & L. E. Coleman, who died April 23, 1910. The church was discontinued about 1919 but the cemetery is still in use and consists of about 1/2 acre of land. The cemetery is located about four miles East of Tellico Plains near the road leading to Rafter. Tellico Plains is 16 miles South of Madisonville. The cemetery is mostly known as the Hard Shell Cemetery, very few know its real name, Piney Knob Primitive Baptist Cemetery. There are 20 inscriptions, 42 graves marked by field stones and 16 unmarked graves.
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Date: Jan. 1939
The Preswood Cemetery was started as a family burial ground on the land of Augustine Preswood June 17, 1842 at the death of Sarah, wife of Michael Widner. Sarah Widner, Polly Callam and the Preswoods were related and their graves are enclosed in a heavy iron fence. This soon became a community cemetery.
It is on the farm of Rosco Green, about 25 miles South of Madisonville and may be reached by going via Mt. Vernon, Jalapa and Brown Hill School, then to Ivy, then on road leading to Starr Mountain.
There are 66 inscriptions and 125 unmarked graves approximately in this cemetery. Many of them are very old.
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John H. Hankins gave two acres of land to the Baptist denomination to be used for church and cemetery grounds. The date was between 1840 and 1850. The church was, constituted in 1850 and named Prospect Baptist Church. About 1890 the church was removed approximately 1 mile to a new location and renamed Rocky Springs Baptist Church.
The cemetery name has been known all along as Prospect, or as some call it now, "Old" Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery.
John H. Hankins was a prominent early settler and also owned a considerable acreage of land.
William P. Mullins, buried here, was likewise a prominent man, served as Esquire etc.
The cemetery is joined by the farm lands of the Jenkins, Crowder and Miller families. It is about 4 1/2 mile East of Madisonville and. about 1 mile beyond Rocky Springs.
There are 75 or more unmarked graves.
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Reeds Springs Baptist Church was established in 1912 at Sunnyside near the Sunnyside County school. J. M. Reed, a relative of Ex-Senator J. M. Reed of Missouri, gave 2, acres of land for the church and cemetery.
The Reeds Springs Baptist Church Cemetery was established in 1912 when Henry Cook died. James Harrison died Dec. 24, 1909 and was buried at his farm but was removed to this cemetery. The graveyard is 9 miles, North of Madisonville on the road leading from Madisonville to Philadelphia, via Hiwassee College and Rockville. There are 53 inscriptions and approximately 38 unmarked graves.
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The Rocky Springs Baptist Church or McClellan Cemetery was established on the farm of Thomas McClellan Sept. 26, 1896 as a family burial ground, when his son, W. M. died. Later the farm was owned by J. B. and Sallie McClellan Isbill and relatives of the Isbill family were buried here. Later John and Callie McClellan Atkins owned the farm and relatives of the Atkins family were also buried here. In 1930 the Rocky Springs Baptist Church secured a deed for the cemetery. It is situated about 2 1/2 miles Southeast of Madisonville. It may be reached by going via Kefauver on Tellico Plains road then Rocky Springs road. There are 53 inscriptions and 3 unmarked graves.
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The Rural Vale Baptist Church Cemetery is 17 miles South of Madisonville. It may be reached by going to Mt. Vernon, thence to Jalapa, thence following the Ivy road to the Rural Vale Community. The old Rural Vale Church building was used by both the Methodist and Baptist Denominations. It was also used as a school house. The first church building was possibly erected about 1840. On January 31, 1880 the Baptist organized in a new building with C. H. Eaton as pastor and G. W. Harris as church clerk. The oldest date on a marker in this cemetery records the death of Sarah G. I mother of S. P. Hale , on Oct, 5, 1858. The cemetery possibly was established at an earlier date. There are 61 inscriptions and approximately 100 unmarked graves.
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The St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized by the Rev. Adam Miller about the year 1812. The Governor of the State granted four acres to be used for the church and a cemetery. The first church, built of logs, stood where a part of the cemetery is now located. The church building was also used for the school. In 1868-1869 a frame building size 60 feet by 46 feet took the place of the old building and was placed just outside of the cemetery. On Sunday May 7th 1869 the Rev. J. C. Barb preached the dedication serman from Ephesians 2nd chapter 20th verse,
The church was removed about one mile to Lakeside in 1920.
The church and cemetery are about 8 miles North of Madisonville and may be reached by taking road via Oak Grove County School. About 1 mile beyond, at the Ivins farm, turn right and follow road leading to Lakeside. Just 1/2 mile before reaching Lakeside turn to the right. The cemetery is on the farm of John W. Wright.
There are 103 inscriptions and between 200 and 300 unmarked graves.
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St. Paul Lutheran Church was removed in 1920 to Lakeside, a distance of about 1 mile from where it was first established 96 years before. One acre of land was purchased from Frank Lee Johnston for the church site and cemetery which are located 8 miles Northeast of Madisonville.
The Rev. Walter C. Davis dedicated the new church and the Rev. F. M. Harr was the first pastor. Henry Moser, who died in 1922, was the first one buried in the new cemetery.
There is only one unmarked grave here.
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Date: February 12, 1940
The Stephens Cemetery is located on the farm of Archie Roy 6 miles West of Madisonville on road leading to Athens via Graighead Springs & Christianburg.
The cemetery was established when George Stephens owned the farm, possibly as a Stephens family cemetery. It later became a community cemetery. The earliest inscription of a death is that of Wm. S. Jarvis who died Jan. 13, 1848 but the cemetery was undoubtedly established earlier. It covers a space fenced of about three-fourths of an acre, and is said to be full of graves. The last inscription is that of Orisia Thomas who died Sept. 10, 1877 and is also about the time the cemetery was discontinued.
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Date: June 21-23, 1939
The Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery was established soon after establishment of the Shady Grove Baptist Church near Tellico Plains in 1842. The first burial inscription is 1848. The land for both the church and the cemetery was given by James Williams. The section of the cemetery between the church and the graves of Wiley Ray family, that are in a brick house, was reserved for the Williams family and relatives. Years ago Negroes were buried in one section of the cemetery, but Negroes are not being buried there now.
There are 276 unmarked graves. Including the Negro burials, there are as many unmarked graves as there are those with inscriptions. Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery is located about one mile West of Jalapa on the road leading to Etowah. Jalapa is about 18 miles South of Madisonville.
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Sink Presbyterian Church and Cemetery are 4 miles Northeast of Tellico Plains. They may be reached by taking the road to Big Creek for 3 miles then turning left. The road is known as Sink road. Tellico Plains is 14 miles South of Madisonville.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Denomination established a church at this location, probably about 1830 and named it Sink. About 1910 it was changed from a Cumberland Presbyterian to a Presbyterian Church. The land for both the cemetery and the church was given by a Mr. Smith but the deed was lost and in 1930 the church paid Sam Patterson $300.00 for the church and cemetery land which comprises appoximately 5 acres. The cemetery occupies about 4 3/4 acres. The oldest inscription is that of Harvey M. Weldin who died Nov. 24, 1838. It is probable that the first burial was still earlier.
There is a marker at the grave of Jacob Franklin Peck placed by Alexander Doran Chapter U. S. D. 1812, Cleveland Tennessee, indicating that Peek was a soldier of the War of 1812.
Maj. Robert T. Ghormley, buried here, was a Civil War Soldier on the authority of Guss Hunt, who also says that William S. Wear, interred in Sink Cemetery, was a World War Soldier.
Dr. N. G. Carter, at the death of his second wife, Lena Sloan Carter, deeded or willed to the church 30 acres of land adjacent to Hensley Springs at Ball Play. Members of the Henderson, Carter, McSpadden, Ghormley, Peck, and other families buried here, were prominent in this section.
The cemetery is still used. The lower side has some unmarked Negro graves.
In the Sink Presbyterian Church Cemetery there are 60 field stone markers; 2 markers. unreadable; 77 inscriptions and approximately 200 unmarked graves. There is no way even to estimate the unmarked graves as most of the ground is smooth and people disagree as to the number of burials here. Some say the old part of the cemetery is full of graves and if so there are 500 or more unmarked graves, some say old part does not contain many grave.
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Date: Nov. 1938
The Sunset Cemetery was established in 1931 by the late B. F. White, Sr., as a public burial ground. It is now controlled by the B. F. White, Estate. Bodies of 3 members of the White family were removed from other cemeteries to this one. It is a beautiful location and mostly used by prominent families.
Among persons buried in Sunset Cemetery are Emerson O. Luther, a former County Representative; C. A. Kennedy, a former Justice of the Peace and County Judge; Rex Lee, a former Circuit Court Clerk; N. M. McDaniel, prominent Attorney, also County Attorney; James Axley, former County Trustee; Boyd Upton, son of former Sheriff Upton; Rankin and Jennie Tallent, children of former Sheriff Hugh Tallent; John C. Candler, son of a prominent Georgia State Official.
The cemetery is located on the East side of Madisonville. There are no unmarked graves.
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The Tallassie Quaker Church Cemetery is located 2 miles from Calderwood on a farm owned by Mrs. Sam Millsaps. The cemetery comprises approxminately 1 acre and is fenced. The earliest inscription of a death is that of A. E. Lackey, July 19, 1886.
The Quaker or Friends Denomination over fifty years ago established a church at the Tallassie location as well as several others in the mountain section of Monroe County. The land for the church and cemetery was secured from the Millsaps family, but it was to fall back to the owner of the farm if not used. The church has been discontinued for about 20 years but the cemetery is still in use.
It is presumed that Mrs. Millsaps owns the cemetery and church building as well as the farm. Calderwood, the nearest town, is 2 miles over the mountain and Little Tennessee river in Blount County or the cemetery is 9 miles South of Citico, up Citico Creek. Citico is approximately 27 miles East of Madisonville up the Little Tennessee River.
Tallassie Quaker Church Cemetery contains 45 inscriptions and 27 field stones. There are no broken tombstones and no unmarked graves.
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The oldest date of a death noted in Tellico Baptist Church Cemetery is that of Sarah A. Sloan Who died Dec. 4, 1863. The cemetery was possibly started sooner as the church was there several years prior to this date. The land was given by Zachariah Givens. The Tellico Baptist Church Cemetery is located on the Ball Play road, 9 miles East of Madisonville. There are 236 inscriptions and approximately 180 unmarked graves.
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Date: September 21-22, 1939
The Tellico Plains Baptist Church Cemetery is in Tellico Plains, a community about 14 miles South of Madisonville. The Tellico Plains Baptist Church was established in 1900 and about the same time the Tellico Iron and Slate Company, owned by the Swainson Brothers, gave the land for a cemetery. The property comprised approximately 3 acres. The earliest date of death found on an inscription is that of E. M. White, August 29, 1904.
A number of prominent persons are buried in the Tellico Plains Baptist Cemetery. Among them are Charles A. Scott, sawmill owner; L. W. Cathey, Superintendent of the Babcock Lumber Compnay; Charles S. Swainson, land operator; Dr. C. S. Jenkins, physician; John A. McConkey, druggist and merchant; James Cable and Virgil F. Wall. Mr. Scott owned a number of sawmills. He bought timber from thousands of acres of mountain land and built railroads to haul the lumber out of the mountains. He willed $25,000 for a school at Tellico Plains. It is known as the C. A. Scott Memorial High School.
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Date: Feb. 15, 1940
Toqua Presbyterian Cemetery is located 11 miles Northeast of Madisonville or 2 miles East of Vonore, via Citico road. The church is 1 mile further East on the road leading to Citico. The cemetery was established July 12, 1932 at the death of Carl Millsaps. Mrs. H. G. Hutchison gave about 2 acres for this cemetery. The 8 graves are widely scattered over the cemetery. There is 1 grave marked by a field stone and 1 unmarked grave. H. G. Hutchison gave the land and helped financially in building the church. The cemetery and church are both used.
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Unicoi Baptist Church Cemetery is 1 1/2 miles South of Tellico Plains near the church and Hunts School house.
The Hunts buried here were of prominent county families.
The Unicoi Baptist Church was established in 1873 about 2 miles South of Tellico Plains on the road leading to Ironsburg. It was removed to its present location, where 2 acres of land was bought from Willie Jones for the cemetery.
Several members of the Hunt family, prominent in Monroe County, are buried here.
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Union Hall Presbyterian Church was the first church established in this section of Monroe County. Ex-Sheriff Sloan, who is an old man, thinks it was among the first churches in the county. The cemetery is thought to have been established about the same time as the church although the inscriptions do not date back that far. The Presbyterian Denomination in early days had a large shed that they used for camp meetings. The name Union Hall seems to have derived from the fact that it was the only meeting place in that section of the county.
The graveyard is 7 miles East of Madisonville on the Ball Play road. There are 34 inscriptions and approximately 100 unmarked graves.
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Date: September 8, 1939
The Vonore Baptist Church Cemetery was established about 25 years ago. The church was constituted in 1907. Land for both the church and cemetery was given by Mrs. George W. Ray.
The earliest tombstone inscription is that of Charlotte B., daughter of H. E. and R. M. Swabe, who died April 12, 1919.
There are approximately 25 unmarked graves.
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Date: September 12, 14, 1939
Vonore Southern M. E. Church Cemetery is near the L. & N. Railroad on the Southwest side of Vonore. It seems to have been established when Wm. S. & Mahala Blair owned the farm on which the graveyard is located. The first burial, that of Isaac Upton, was on August 19, 1848. Isaac Upton had married Bettie, daughter of Wm. S. & Mahala Blair, who later owned the land. It was used as a community cemetery until about 35 years ago, when James C. Hall deeded it to the Vonore Southern Methodist Church.
Among the prominent persons buried in Vonore Southern M. E. Church Cemetery are William H. Dawson, Joseph Starritt, Monore Starritt and Brice Williams.
William H. Dawson, was a Justice of the Peace and County Representive for several years, and was very prominent in the county. He was over 100 years old when he died.
Joseph Starritt was likewise a Justice of the Peace and a member of the Tennessee State Legislative and very prominent in the county. His father, Monroe Starritt, was also prominent. Neither one has a marker at his grave.
There are approximately 125 unmarkded graves in Vonore Southern M. E. Church Cemetery.
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Date: Jan. 6, 1939
This cemetery never has had a name, nor Is it known when It was established. There are no dates on the field rock markers to indciate when any of the persons buried here were born or died. It is thought that Mary Harris was the first person buried in this cemetery. She selected the place where she wanted to be buried so probably the graveyard site was on the Harris farm.
This cemetery is in the Notchey Creek Knobs about 6 miles South of Madisonville on the farm of B. C. Watkins. It is near the Hauns old mill, now known as Watkins Mill, on the road leading toward Tellico Plains.
There are approximately nine unmarked graves in this cemetery.
Copied by: Lawrence McConkey, Englewood, Tennessee.
The Webb Family Cemetery is the burial ground of the family of Eligah (E. N.) Webb. His father is buried here but his mother is buried at Prospect cemetery. His grandfather, William I., and his grand mother are probably buried at Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery. Harrison (W. H.) Webb was high Sheriff of the County. William Webb selected the location for the Webb Cemetery on the Webb farm before his death and was the first one buried here. Later his grandson, Harrison (W.H.) owned the farm and deeded the burial plot for a graveyard. The cemetery is about four miles East of Madisonville and can best be reached by following the Ballplay road to the farm of Harvey Belcher then turning right on to the road leading to Anderson Belcher's. There are 22 inscriptions and 4 unmarked graves.
Three Webb brothers migrated to this Country from Ireland. One settled in North Carolina and one in Upper East Tennessee. Their names and exact location of settlement are unknown. The other brother settled in Monroe County, Tennessee. His name was William. He was the father of a son by the same name, William. This son married and it is believed that his wife's maiden name was Easter Matthews. William and Easter Webb were the parents of: Thomas, William, Eligah, John, Elisha, Betty, Millie, Huldia and Sallie. Eligah (E.N.) married Betty Duggan. They were the parents of Doke, Ona, Allie, Hattie and Harrison. Doke married Ella Hicks. Ona married Albert Castell. Allie married Jess Stapp. Hattie married Arthur Dewitt. Harrison married Arlee Dewitt. Elijah's first wife, Betty, died and he then married Samantha Ivens. (Their Inscriptions on the tombstone have initials E. N. & S. V. instead of names.) They were the parents of: Dee, Etta, Navada, Grant, Daisy and Lara. Dee married Gussie Tallent; Etta married Homer Dewitt; Navada married Harvey Belcher. Grant married Lillie Tallent; Daisy never married and Lora married Wesley McConkey.
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Copied by: Lawrence McConkey, Englewood, Tennessee
Date: Nov. 1938
Buried in the Wilson-Joines Cemetery are members of the family of Solomon Wilson, his descendants and their consorts; also Isaac Wilson who was the son of John Wilson; and members of the Reynolds family who were related to the Joines family and not the Wilson. Jessee Wilson gave $500 in a trust fund, the interest to be used on the up-keep of this cemetery. The location is 5 miles South of Madisonville, in front. of the Chestua Baptist Church.
There are 50 inscriptions and 2 unmarked graves.
John Wilson of Washington Co., in or about the year 1838, brought six of his sons Solomon, John, Elijah, Charles and David Lawrence, to Monroe Co., and George to McMinn Co., and bought them large farms. Solomon Wilson married Mary Glaze before leaving Washington Co. Their children's names and who they married are as follows: Hannah, married Gabriel (G.H.) Joines; Eliza, married Robert Patty; Elizabeth never married; Isaac, married -----, lived In the West; John, married --------; Charles married, went West; George, married Nealy Taylor. She died and he married Callie Cobble; Lawrence, married Matilda Denton; Jessee, married Manervia Reynolds; Richard (Dick) married Susie Reynolds. As above stated, Hannah Wilson married Gabriel (G.H.) Joines. Their children's names and who they married are as follows: Johnnie married Mary Reynolds. She died then he married Fannie Dyer; Will married Huretta McCaslin; Charles married Ellen McDonald; Hugh, married Ella Maxwell; Allice, never married; Elizabeth, (Lizzie), married Jess D. Stalcup; Tezzie, married, Will Lee; Ida, married Robert Cochran; Emma, married Ollie A. Toomey. Sherman's Army on its March through the South destroyed a large amount of timber and also took or destroyed much personal property of Solomon Wilson.
Copies by: Laurence McConkey, Englewood, Tennessee
Date: Feb. 29, 1940
The Walker or Wright Cemetery is located 7 miles North of Madisonville. There are 2 routes from Madisonville; First, by way of Hiwassee College to Rockville then on road to Christianburg; second via the Sweetwater road to Howards Springs then on road to Rockville. The cemetery is on the farm of Charles Howell. From Sweetwater it is Southeast about 5 1/2 miles and may be reached by going to Rockville or to Howard Springs and following routes as directed above.
The cemetery was established on the farm of Robert Wright for use of the community. There never was a church here. The earliest inscription is that of Polly S., daughter of D. P. & Jane Walker, who died Sept. 7, 1833. Dave Walker, who died Sept. 7, 1833. Dave Walker of Sweetwater says a part of the Walker tombstones have been destroyed and as Joseph Walker was born in 1769 it is possible some of his family were buried earlier then 1833. The cemetery is in a patch of woods and covers approximately 1 acre. It seems to be about full of graves. The Wrights, Walkers and Rowans were prominent in Monroe County. John A. Rowan, who is buried here, was a Colonel in the Confederate Army according to David Walker. The cemetery is known as Walker Cemetery, as the Walker farm with the brick Colonial home adjoins the graveyard. At the lower side of the cemetery are graves of some Negro Slaves. The cemetery has been discontinued since about 1900. There are 11 inscriptions and about 60 graves marked by field stones and 90 or more unmarked graves. This was the cemetery used before the Forkners Chapel Southern Methodist Cemetery was established.