Bowman-Epperson Cemetery
2004
This cemetery is located off 933 East Mountain View Road in Johnson City TN, behind the office of Herman Jones, developer of adjacent Whittling Wood Subdivision. The cemetery can be easily reached from a new street, Falling Leaf Drive in the Whitteling Wood Subdivision. The lotmeasures approximately 70 ft. x 100 ft. There is a very large section of unmarked graves.
GPS Location: 36.22.27N 082.22.44W Elevation: 1573 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Bowman, John 26 Dec 1835 24 Jun 1910
Bowman, Joseph 18 Aug 1805 [illegible] Col. Epperson supplied death date of January 1896.
Bowman, Mahala 22 Apr 1811 27 Sep 1898
Bowman, Willie Lelia Ford 1891 1936 Wife of J.A. Bowman. Col. Epperson said there is no stone for her husband, Joe A. Bowman.
Christie, Jasper 18 Mar 1831 07 May 1909
Custis, Sarah Christy 1836 1937
Epperson, Albert J. 17 Aug 1855 19 Jun 1936
Epperson, Nancy K. 13 Jun 1857 06 Oct 1899
Epperson, Sanford C. 18 Oct 1878 20 May 1941 Col. Epperson's uncle named Sanford Chamberlain Epperson.
Epperson, Violet E. 09 Apr 1909 09 May 1909 Daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Sanford Epperson.
Robertson, Ida Bowman 1869 1938
Sellers, Ann A. 18 Jun 1845 31 Dec 1872 Age 28 yrs. 5 mos 18 ds Wife of H.P. Sellers
Sellers, Effie C. 06 Dec 1881 11 Jul 1883 Aged 1 year 8 mos. 5 days
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web January 2003 by Ramona K. Vickers and Col. Lewis M. Epperson. Updated by Dawn Peters and Betty Jane Hylton, members of 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.
The cemetery had not been visible until September and November 1998 when Col. Epperson, Paul Alan May and John Hall cleared and cleaned away the heavy brush. They repaired and reset broken tombstones, and they intend to return with fill dirt in May 1999 to fill in the sunken graves.
Col. Epperson said he believes this cemetery to be a Bowman family cemetery as it was on the Bowman farm long before the Colonel’s grandmother was buried there in 1899
There are at least seven sets of rough, unmarked rocks, and probably many more, where gravesites have been lost to time. Of the thirteen visible headstones, some face east and some west, facing each other. Other graves are marked with concrete cap stones.
There are initialed foot markers for the graves of Nancy K. Epperson, Violet E. Epperson. Effie G. Sellers, Annie Sellers,Willie Lelia Ford, John Bowman, Mahala Bowman. and Sarah Christy. The grave of Albert J. Epperson has a blank foot marker, and a large depression. The grave of Sanford C. Epperson has no foot marker and is slightly depressed. The tomb stones of Mahala Bowman, Joseph Bowman, Annie Sellers and Effie G. Sellers have previously been split in two.
Additional information:
From Washington County, Tennessee Marriages 1780-1870, by Goldene Burgner:
Oct 2, 1868 Jasper Christie to Catharine Krous, md. 4 October 1868 by W.C. Newell, MG
1880 Census Washington County, Tennessee
Christie, Jasper N. 48, Catharine 54, James H. 24, Sarah A. 16, Sue E. 15 (page #538)