Cocke County, Tennessee
Stanbery Burnett Cemetery


Survey completed 4-08-2002.
Located in Newport, TN on Edwina Bridgeport Rd. Just after turning from Edwina Rd. onto this road, it is on the first hill on the right, behind a small brick house (Ford’s).

Fenced in area:

NAME DATES COMMENTS
Oscar Montooth born 1-30-1882 died 7-12-1936  
Josie Montooth born 10-4-1908 died 3-17-1924  
William Burnett born 7-6-1856, died 9-13-1935  
Emma W. Burnett born 7-29-1861, died 5-3-1943 same stone as William Burnett

Unfenced area:

Several graves marked only with stones (rocks) and some that are illegible and broken.
NAME DATES COMMENTS
John F. Stanbery born 1-22-1813, died 11-3-1894 In Cocke Co. census of 1850:
John F. 38, merchant, M, TN, (800)
Rachel, 28, F, TN
Samuel H., 11, M, TN
Mary, 20, F, TN
COX, Julia A.F., 20, F, VA
Rachel Stanbery born 1-20-1822, died 1-27-1888  
Rhoda J. born 3-29-1895, died 8-2-1895 daughter of E.J. and L.L. Lail
Rush H. Stanbery born 12-6-1889, died 5-27-says 1800 * (should it be 1900?)
Mary E. Smith died 1-29-1871 age 19 yrs.
Harriet J. Stanbery born 6-15-1849, died 1-3-1877 This is the wife of the Samuel H. who is listed above in the
1850 census as John F. and Rachel's son. Harriet Jane and
Samuel Hoskins Stanberry had a child named Dr. J.F.
(John Freeman) Stanberry, born 10-18-1873, died
11-29-1922.  Dr. Stanberry married Ethel May Wood
(born 7-20-1879, died 6-29-1958, daughter to Sarah and
Thornton Wood). Cocke Co. Death Records lists Dr. J.F.
Stanberry, 49 years old, died 1922, Cocke Co.
Mary L. Smith died 12-6-1869 age 39 years 10 mo 22 days, (Could be the daughter of John F.
and Rachel Stanbery - in 1850 Cocke Co. census, it lists Mary
in their family, 20 years old.)
T.E. Jackson died 9-4-1859 __yrs 5 mo 29 days, exemplary member of First Episcopal
Church, (part of a stone)


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