Barnes-Rowe Cemetery
2015
Located at the end of the parking lot for Abrasive Technology Manufacturing, Inc. 168 Roweland Dr., Johnson City, TN. The back of the old Barnes Elementary School building can be seen from the cemetery. The cemetery has been recently cleaned.
Death certificates show that his cemetery was also known by Watson, Sproul, and Leonard.
GPS Location: 36.21.09N 082.18.65W Elevation: 1546 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Barnes, Robert Bunch 1873 1929
Barnes, Hazel 21 Nov 1908 24 Sep 1912 Dau. of W.M. & Lucy Barnes
Humphrey, Mattie L. Stepp 27 Nov 1876 25 Sep 1904 Wife of Chas. Humphrey
Carrier, Susan Elizabeth Stepp 24 Jan 1878 30 Jun 1898 Wife of O.R. Carrier. [Dau. of Jno. W. and A.L. Stepp]
Brown, Mary Shell 20 Nov 1873 22 Dec 1946 Dau. of William and Eliza Stepp
Stepp, John William 26 Mar 1851 04 Mar 1901
Deakins, Cora V. 03 Jun 1886 07 Sep 1908 Wife of Wm. J. Deakins
Culbert, Eliza Stepp 16 Dec 1854 28 Aug 1928 Mother
Arnold, Mrs. D.M. 02 Dec 1890 24 Feb 1924 Mother
Barnes, Lieuttia Saylor 1881 1930 Mother
Leonard, Jacob J.S.M. 21 Jun 1879 20 May 1880
Haun, Mary Barnes 27 Dec 1860 31 Jul 1923
Barnes, S.B. 24 Sep 1867 15 Nov 1921 Age 54 Y 1 M 22 D
Sutphin, Felica Hull 29 Aug 1849 04 Jan 1907 Wife of Wm. C. Sutphin
Herrell, Waites 1855 1918 Two small marble slabs with a more recent funeral home marker.
Clark, Ella May 1892 1896
Clark, Wilbur T. 1895 1896
Sproles, Lydia A. Range Leonard 1840 1904
Leonard, Jacob 23 Apr 1832 15 May 1880
Gouge, Lottie
Leonard, James A. 01 Nov 1875 28 Jul 1876
Rowe, Dora Leonard
Rowe, Clyde
Rowe, Dora May
Watson, Cordie A. 1872 1916
Watson, John W. 08 Oct 1925
Watson, Gladys 17 Nov 1922 21 Nov 1922
Watson, John [Washington] 06 Sep 1866 11 Jul 1937
There appears to be at least a dozen more unmarked graves and four that are marked with rocks.
Found in 1977 but not in 2004:
Rowe, Hugh Thomas, 21 Jun 1899 – 12 Nov 1936
DEEDS –
Deed Book 90, Page 45 (1906 and 251 acres) the following was defined –
Jacob Leonard died May 14, 1880 (his marker shows that, and birth of April 23, 1832)
Jacob was married to Lydia A. (nee Range – other source), who later married later, Hugh Sproles (other source).
Jacob and Lydia had two daughters, Cordie (married John Washington Watson) and Dora B (married John E. Rowe).
Dora and John Rowe had three children, Stella May, Hugh Thomas, and Henry George, who were all minors in 1906
Jacob Leonard would have been the patriarch – plus first known burial – May 14, 1880 – little Jacob JSM died 6 days later.
The farm was partitioned to Jacob’s two daughters families in DB90-45.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 7 May 2004 by Donna Briggs, Bob Shell, Elaine Cantrell & Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Researched and updated by Gordon M. Edwards, 2015.
Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.