| Located one mile north of Afton on the
Walkertown Road. This is a very old Cemetery, neglected and
abandoned. The family living nearest the cemetery have lived
there twenty-six years, and say there has not been a
burial in this cemetery since they have resided there. Dr.
Price's HISTORY OF HOLSTON METHODISM, page 247—VOL. II, gives
the following: "Stone Dam camp Ground was established in the
fall of 1818... In the spring of l818 Mrs. Milly Thomasson
and her six children joined the Methodist Episcopal Church by
letter at the Stone Dam Meetinghouse, some half dozen miles east
of Greeneville. John Delaney, Thomas Stanfield and wife and Mary
and Rebecca Delaney constituted the entire membership till the
Tomassons joined it....Between 1818 and 1821 Stone Dam Society
increased from four persons to fifty. Among the early converts
were Nathaniel Stanfield, Joseph Johnson and Barton
Johnson.”
An article quoted by Dr. Price in his History states that in
1853 there were a thousand persons tented on the ground.
He says:
"Stone Dam Camp Ground is a place famous in the annals of
Holston Methodism.”
There are a great many unmarked graves, but inscriptions copied
bear the names of the early members referred to by Dr. Price.
Margaret K. Richardson,
Morristown, Tenn.
One Mile from Afton - Walkertown Road.
Copied by
Mrs. Margaret H. Richardson,
Alice Erwin,
Grace Ripley,
Lizzie-Lou Marshall
November 11, 1936 |
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Samuel Patton Stanfield
Died
June 2, 1881
Aged 89 Years
10 Mons, 13 Days
John M. Cozart
Born Sept. 13, 1826
Died July 15, 1892
Co. C 4th Tenn. I
Ellen, Wife of John M. Cozart
Died Oct. 22, 1884
Mary
Wife of James Cozart
Born May 18, 1797
Died Nov. 9, 1883
James Cozart
Born July 5, 1797
Died June 1, 1871
William Murdocks
Mary Consort of
Henderson Lynch
born July 16, 1820
died Feb. 5, 1857
Caleb H.
Son of
H. & M. Lynch
Born Dec. 16, 1856
Died July 5, 1857
Nathaniel Stanfield
Born March 5, 1840
Died Feb. 9, 1850
William Stanfield
Born Sept. 8, 1817
Died March 26, 1859
Thomas Thomason
Smauel Ripley
Born October 5, 1793
Died December 13, 1846
Elkana Ripley
Born May 20, 1830
Died June 23, 1892
Alexander M. Ripley
Born April 4, 1858
Died ____26, 1889
Charley A. Ellis
Born Aug. 16, 1872
Died Aug. 23, 1891
John Johnson
Born March 4, 1814
Died Feb. 27, 1895
Rachel Johnson
Born Aug. 25, 1812
Died March 8, 1819
John Fraker
Died Jany. 1871
Aged 72 Years, 11 Months & 13 Days
Elizabeth
Wife of J. Thomason
Died April 12, 1885
Aged 75 Years
Mary Thomason
Born November 20, 1833
Died May 1, 1884
Marilla Thomason
Born Nov. 6, 1849
Died Oct. 14, 1854
John Squibb
Died Dec. 4, 1883
in his 67th Year
Robert McCracken
Born May 29, 1806
Died Jan. 31, 1889
Jane, Wife of Robert McCracken
Born Sept. 7, 1814
Died Aug. 3, 1889
E.C.
Wife of D.B. Ripley
Born June 11, 1839
Died Dec. 11, 1894
J. Alexander Johnson
Born May 27, 1844
Died May 31, 1875
Nathan B. Johnson
Born Dec. 5, 1818
Died May 31, 1860
Jane
Consort of Nathan B. Johnson
Born Aug. 20, 1815
Died Aug. 2 1854
Joseph Johnson
Born January 9, 1780
Died May 13, 1855.
Ann Johnson
Died Aug.____ 1758
Aged 72 Years
Locadia V. Trevitt
Wife of J.F. Trevitt
Born July 29, 1829
Died May 2, 1858
Charles Trevitt
Born June 12, 1837
Died Feby. 1, 1854
David (?) Brown
Born Aug____ 1839
Died_____ 1841
Elizabeth Barham
Born Jan. 6, 1827
Died June 25, 1896
A.S. Collett
Born Nov. 8, 1818
Died Aug. 14, 1892
Joel Carter
Born 1816
Died 1859
Margaret
Wife of Thomas Ripley
Born June 20, 1802
Died Feb. 18____
Thomas Ripley
Born Sept. 2, 1801
Died Sept. 7, 1862
Elizabeth
Wife of W. Bryson
Born October 8, 1828
Died August 12, 1864
George Lynch
Born
March 10, 1865
Esther Ann Lynch
Born June 18, 1854
Died Feb. 28, 1921
Aged 66 Years, 8 Months
Thomas Yeakley
Co. C, 4th Tennessee Infantry |
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