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Background:Stophel Cemetery In Front of the Dam
Taken by S. Kathryn Bowling McKown


Located at the end of Linville Street, off Watauga in Kingsport. The cemetery is in a fork in the road and the road goes all the way around it.
November 18, 2003 by Betty Jane Hylton and Donna Briggs

Part of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.


Bralley, C. E. August 8, 1881 October 30, 1913 (see note)

Dickson, S. P. October 12, 1872 June 18, 1903

Rhea, Henry S. September 14, 1910 February 26, 1911 Son of J. E. & R. L. Rhea

Fain, Annie H. August 28, 1869 November 22, 1911

Moore, Elisabeth April 22, 1875 October 3, 1914 Wife of Martin M. Moore

Smallwood, Harry T. April 3, 1897 April 19, 1913

Smallwood, Theophilus June 20, 1851 October 6, 1910 See Miscellaneous Obituaries for obituary of wife Mary E. Smallwood

Taylor, Nannie J. September 29, 1872 August 9, 1903 Wife of J. W. Taylor

Childress, Perrie May 19, 1900 April 4, 1901 Son of T. W. & M. Childress [Same stone as Blanche Childress]

Childress, Blanche May 22, 1899 July 17, 1900 Dau. of T. W. & M. Childress [Same stone as Perrie Childress

Coats, Eliza Ann February 19, 1858 September 18, 1917 Wife of D. P. Coats

Bachman, Sarah Kitzmiller April 20, 1827 August 24, 1893 Wife of Samuel Bachman

Bachman, Samuel December 28, 1819 September 24, 1889 Aged 69y, 8mo, 26 days

Price, Solomon January 26, 1911 January 26, 1911 Son of J. E. & O. M. Price

Carrell, Elizabeth 1852 1911

Parker, Thomas H. No date March 29, 1916 [Stone reads: My husband is gone, but not forgotten]

Barger, Golda A. October 23, 1904 February 27, 1905 Daughter of W. W. & C. D. Barger

Parker, Flossie D. March 30, 1896 May 13, 1919

Bachman, Barbra March 7, 1840 November 15, 1862

Parker, Lena W. January 5, 1888 July 10, 1889 Daughter of J. & M. Parker

Nester, Edna Maxannie E. December 18, 1915 January 31, 1917

Nelson, Georgie M. September 10, 1896 April 29, 1899 Son of R. E. & E. Nelson

Nelson, Mildred E. July 1, 1918 August 14, 1918

Tittsworth, ---han [Nathan] April 13, 1831 September 9, 1885

Cox, Barbary [Tittsworth] May 1839 November 3, 1879 Wife of T. J. Cox

Coats, Eliza Jane December 15, 18-- ----- [Stone is broken and dates are missing.]

Fleenor, Ruby Paulean & George February 1, 1916 February 26, 1916

Parker, John W. 1812 January 31, 1908

Parker, Annie March 4, 1887 May 1, 1917

Watkins, Rufus K. October 30, 1844 March 4, 1911

Carel, Susan Abshire No date March 11, 1889 Wife of Andy Carel Age 70 years

Steadman, James J. September 22, 1910 September 22, 1910 [Buried in an unmarked grave Son of Nathan Wilmer Steadman and Mary Elizabeth Crump Steadman]


Charles E. (Eugene? Edward?) Bralley, born August 08, 1881 in Wythe County, Virginia, the oldest son of John Saunders Bralley and Louemma Williams; died October 31, 1913 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married Addie E. Harris 1907 in Scott County, Virginia. Marriage found in General Index to Marriages of Scott County, Virginia (Alphabetically by Male,) Phyllis L. Peterson, 820 West Alder Avenue, Hermiston, Oregon 97838, p. 52; Scott County Marriages, Book 3, page 70, line 24 - 1907. According to a certified copy of his death certificate in the possession of the author, Charles Bralley was a "walking boss" for the railroad construction company and was killed as a result of "injuries producing fractures with hemorrhages at the base of the brain." The accident occurred sometime before 6 p.m. on 30 October 1913, because that was when the doctor's records state he was first treated. Dr. R. H. Dunn of Stowe, Kentucky attended him from that time until 11 p.m. on 31 October 1913, when he died. Hurst Hardware Company of Williamson, West Virginia was undertaker and his remains were returned to Kingsport, Tennessee where they were interred on either 2 or 3 November 1913. He is buried in the Samuel Bachman Cemetery on Linville Street in Kingsport, a stone's throw from the Bralley home. The graveyard was on the property of Kingsport's first mayor, J. W. Dobyns, who along with his sons Ben and Flem Dobyns were lifelong friends of the Bralley’s. It is possibly for this reason that Charles Bralley was buried there. At the time of his death, the new "City Cemetery," later renamed Oak Hill Cemetery had not yet been established. His stone is one of the few left standing and legible. It is a small obelisk and reads "C. E. Bralley, 8 August 1881 - 30 October 1913 -- At Rest" The death date is actually wrong on his stone - he really died on 31 October 1913. No further information is known about him or his descendants, if any.

From: Historic Sites of Sullivan County, Muriel C. Spoden, The Kingsport Press: Kingsport, Tennessee, 1976, p. 76.

Charles E. Bralley's death record is from Kentucky Death Records, 1911-Present, Volume 56, Certificate Number 27931.

Submitted by Russ Bralley, a descendant


Additional Information

1860 Census of Sullivan County

District 11, page 126

TITSWORTH, Barbry 58; George 29; Nathan 28; Margret 24; John 23; Barbry 20; Elizabeth 16

District 12, page 57

PARKER, John 41; Mary 19; William 13; Rufus 10; Thomas 8; Joseph 6; Milly Ann 4

COATS, James S. 30; Eliza J. 35; Sarah Ann 11; Barbry E. 9; Mary C. 8; Fina 5; Daniel P. 4; Wm H. 8/12;

BOWSER, Margret 18


1870 Census of Sullivan County

15th district, page 511

TITSWORTH, Nathan 39; Roenah? 18; PEOPLES, Mary 40; TITSWORTH, Barbery 68


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