Located at 143 Mayberry Rd. Jonesborough, TN. Well maintained. The rows are very uneven. The cemetery has been divided into three sections. Section A starts at the top of the hill next to the fence. Section B started near the old cedar tree next to the church. Section C is near Mayberry Road.
GPS location: 36.14.135 082 .27.919; Elevation: 1722 ft.
Note: A GPS reading was taken in the center of each section.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web Summer 2005 by Donna Cox Briggs, Chester Willis, Jan Clark, Geraldine Greenwell 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.
Additional information
* Henley, Isaac Row 7 Grave 20
Born 6 Jan 1785
Died 4 Dec 1840/1846
Henley, George W. Row 7, Grave 21
Born 1 May 1834
Died 4 Nov 1857/1837
These were in the C. M. Bennett transcription in 1967, but not found in 2005.
** Bayless, Reuben Row 8, Grave 14
Born 17 Jun 1754
Died 7 Nov 1826
War of 1812
Bayless, Margaret Row 8, Grave 15
Born 13 Jan 1751
Died 1 Mar 1828
Bayless, Infant Row 8, Grave 19
Son of Daniel L. and Mary Bayless
Aged 7 days
These were also in the Bennett transcription in 1967, but not found in 2005.
*** Smith, Mary M. M. J. Row 16, Grave 19
Died 28 Oct 1845
Aged 1 yr. 4 mo. 12 das.
Also found in the Bennett transcription of 1967 but marker was unreadable in 2005.
**** Autrey, Steve Row 22, Grave 8
Born 19 Mar 1949
Died 10 May 2001
Cremated; no marker/wooden stake
This information is from Oral J. Constable who did a transcription of the cemetery around 2002.
***** Deakins, Jas. E. Maj. Row 24, Grave 5
Born 15 Dec 1827
Died 9 May 1908
Civil War, Army
This information from the Oral J. Constable transcription done around 2002.
+Isaac Hoss (1787–2-24-828 Washington Co); Md Hannah Bayless 4-20-1808 (9-1774–6-30-1859); Pvt, 24th US Inf, enl by Lt Stewart 5-13-1813 for 5 years, Prisoner of War at Quebec & recvd in exchange at Cumberland Head 4-28-1814, Pvt, Capt Hampton’s Co & Capt James Stewart’s Co, 2-16-1814–8-3-1815; W D; Cherokee Bapt Cem in Washington Co; Pvt mkr. Source Document: (word for word) from: Soldiers of the War of 1812 Buried in Tennessee by Mary Hardin McCown & Inez E. Burns
Information contributed by Alan Jackson, March 2014.
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