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Located on the hill behind 589 Massengill Road, Blountville, Sullivan County. The cemetery is fenced and in good condition.

Transcribed on 23 Apr 2011 by Donna Briggs and Jan Clark, members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.

Map Location: Blountville Quad

GPS Location: 36° 22.764 N 082° 19.547 W Elevation: 1687 ft.

TNGenWeb Cemetery Database 2098083

Shrite Cemetery

Name

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Death

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Loudy, Mary Deck 1835 1884
Shrite, Henry [No date] 2- Apr [?] Aged 34 years, [?]
[Unknown] [No date] [No date] [Footstone bears initials: M.S.
Leonard, Ernest R. 1912 1973 [Shares marker with Pauline K. Leonard]
Leonard, Pauline K. 1914 [1995] [Shares marker with Ernest R. Leonard; death date information provided by son]
Kenny, Charmie Mae 15 Sep 1887 24 Sep 1960
Leonard, Anna Lee 22 Jan 1936 2 Oct 1992
Kenny, Betty [Unknown] [Unknown] [No marker; information from descendant]
Kenny, E. K. [Unknown] [Unknown] [No marker; information from descendant]
Leonard, Mildred [Unknown] [Unknown] [No marker; information from descendant]

According to several family trees on Ancestry.com, Henry Shrite was born 12 Oct 1764 in South Carolina and died in 1820, Sullivan County, Tennessee. He was married to Mary Ann Thomas.


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Shrite Cemetery — 1 Comment

  1. Henry Shrite in the Shrite cemetery is probably Henry Thomas Shrite born in 1807 and died in 1829. His father Henry Shrite was born in 1764 almost certainly in Pennsylvania.

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