Boring Chapel Cemetery
16 Aug 2004
Located at 577 Boring Chapel Rd. Gray, TN. It is behind the Freewill Baptist Church on the south side of Boone Lake along Reedy Creek. Fenced and mowed.
GPS location: 36.25.14N 082.23.83W Elevation 1464 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENT
Boring, Effie V. 23 Feb 1865 30 Jul 1897
Boring, Isaac, Dr. 27 Sep 1818 03 Oct 1895 [Shares marker with Nancy A. Boring]
Boring, Nancy A. 31 Oct 1827 14 Mar 1898 [Shares marker with Dr. Isaac Boring]
Boring, Robert L 10 Jun 1869 03 Jul 1899
Daughter [No name] [No date] [No date]
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web (date) by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Additional information
1850 Census Washington County, TN
#505/528 Isaac Boren 31, Nancy 25, Peter 4, Mary J. 1.
1870 Census Washington County, TN, Dist. 11 #
#84 Boring, Isaac 51, N Nancy 45, John W. 16, Isaac N. 13, Lizzie O. 10, Effie V. 7,William D. 5, Robert 1.
1880 Census Washington County, TN
Page 548 Boring, Isaac 61, Nancy 54, John W. 25, Isaac N. 22, Lizza O. 20, Effie V. 17, William D. 14, Robert E.L. 10.
Washington County, Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872 by Goldene Burgner
Greenberry Boring March 31, 1858
Sons: Isaac, Madison, John. Wife Mary. Test: Abraham Gregg, James Hodges. Probated February Term, 1873. Signed: Greenbery Boring.
Note: Greenberry Boring is buried in the Allison-Boring-Hodges Cemetery.
From: Washington County, Tennessee Marriages 1780-1870 by Goldene Burgner, p.67:
May 24, 1844 Isaac Boring – Nancy Yokley – David Dyer of Sullivan County, md. 24 May 1844 by L. Bowers, J.P.
From Genealogy of Sanders, Alison and Collateral Families of Sullivan and Washington Counties, Tennessee, compiled & published by W.R. Sanders, p.68-69:
Nancy Ann Yoakley m. Isaac Newton Boring. Isaac Newton Boring was son of Greenberry Boring, a soldier of the War of 1812. He married Mary Ruble a daughter of Peter Ruble.
Dr. Isaac Newton Boring was a doctor of the old school. Rarely has a man so fully enjoyed the confidence of a large community as a safe and valued physician as did Doctor Boring. He served the rural people well, practicing from his home located on the North bank of the Watauga river directly across from the Old Deer Lick school building. No “call the Doctor” went unanswered, be it day or night, summer or winter. For this service his compensation was little, and often gratis.
In addition to the manifest interest he proved he had in his community well being, from the family doctor point of view, he displayed an equal interest in their spiritual well being. It was the result of his direct efforts, and largely from his own funds, that Boring’s Chapel was erected on ground he donated for that purpose.
Dr. Isaac Boring married Nancy Ann Yoakley, May 24, 1844, daughter of Peter Yoakley. David Dyer witnessed the wedding in Sullivan Co. Nancy Ann Yoakley Boring was born October 31, 1827. She died March 14, 1898.
Children of Dr. Isaac Newton and Nancy Ann Boring: (1) John Boring m. Lizzie White. (2) Mary Boring m. J.K. Shipley (a schoolteacher in the “Fork” section for a number of years. (3) Greenberry Boring removed to Stubenfield, Ohio, where he was married, lived, and died. He is buried in Stubenfield, Ohio. (4) Peter Boring m. Mary Kitzmiller Devault (a daughter of Samuel and Nancy Kitzmiller Devault.)