Hunt (Henson) Cemetery Grave Removals
This cemetery was located behind Smith Wholesale, Rocky Top Rd., Johnson City, TN. It was just barely over the Washington/Carter Counties line and was in Carter County. We are including it on the Washington County page because maps show it in Washington County.
From Cemeteries of Carter County Tennessee by Orville Fields, p. 136:
The following is contributed form the files of Mrs. Mary Hardin McCown.
The Henson Hunt Cemetery is near the Washington-Carter County line in Carter County. It is near the old stone house of Henson Hunt owned by the late Professor E.E. Hawkins and family, route 6, Johnson City, Tennessee.
CRAWFORD, NANCY HUNT (consort of W.C. Crawford) d. 5/15/1851
HUNT, HENSEN b. 5/15/1780; d. 12/50/1853
HUNT, MARY M. (wife of Hensen Hunt) b. 1-01-1783; d. 11-13-1876
Note: Will Book No. 2, p.5 Carter County: Will of Hensen Hunt List of Sale of Estate 2-25-1854 – land on Brush Creek in Washington County where Mary Tucker now lives… 10A Wife – Mary M. Hunt; daughter, Cinthy Ann Hensley; son, Easley Hunt $10; daughter, Caroline Jones, $10; sons John Hunt and Hiter (Thomas H.) Hunt and William J. Hunt, $1 each; children of Elizabeth Pugh and Nancy Ann Crawford.
Signed – Hensen Hunt
Ex. Son Warrinton Hunt
John Wright
Edmund Williams, Sr.
From the Washington County Deed Book No. 18, p. 334: 7-11-1827 – The heirs of Thomas Hunt to Mary Crouch, Thomas Crouch and John Crouch. Heirs named: Hensen Hunt of Carter County; John Bayless and wife Elizabeth Bayless, Madison County, Alabama; Thomas Hunt, Jr., of Monroe County, Tennessee; Nancy McClure; William Crouch and wife Senia Crouch; Peter Hunt all of Washington County, Tennessee. Proved at October Sessions, 1827, Washington County, Tennessee.
From Washington County Marriages: Thomas Hunt, Jr., m. 1811 Martena Bayless (daughter of Samuel Bayless and Mary Nodding Bayles) Washington County.
From Carter County Deed Book B, p. 385 – 9-02-1812 – Thomas Hunt to Hensen Hunt for $1500; 295 A in Washington County and Carter County. Thomas Hunt of Washington County to Hensen Hunt of Carter County, land on Br of Sinking Creek Beginning on Samuel Hunt’s line… formerly John Norwoods… with Abraham Tipton’s line…
Signed – Thomas Hunt
Witnesses: Isaac Bacon, Thomas Hunt and Joseph Bean
Reg. June 16, 1813, Godfrey Carriger, Reg. Carter County.
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, V.I p.129, used with permission from Lorriane Bennett Rae:
Located back of the Henson Hunt stone house in a pasture; near the radio station on the old Johnson City to Elizabethton Highway. Coped by Belle Lyle Tilden, Feb 18, 1958.
Nancy CRAWFORD, consort of W.C. Crawford, D May, 1851, aged 32 years
Henson HUNT, May 15, 1780 – Dec 5, 1853 (son of Thomas Hunt; m. Mary Magdalene Pope, June 27, 1807)
Mary M., wife of Henson HUNT, Jan 18, 1783 – Oct 13, 1876.
Following information from Dawn Peters:
HENSON HUNT 1780-1853 and MARY POPE 1783 1876 DESCENDANTS
Thomas Hiter Hunt 1816-1863 and 1st wife,Mary Devault, married 1837
Thomas Hiter Hunt and 2nd wife, Rachel Devault
John R. Hunt born 1808 and wife Margurite Holt, married 1830
William J. Hunt and wife, Mary Henley, married 1823
Warrington Hunt born 1809 and wife Marie C.Devault, married 1835
Elizabeth Hunt and husband, David Pugh, married 1835
Esley Hunt and Wife Louisa _____
Carolint Hunt and 1st husband, Alfred Martin, married 1827
Carolint Hunt and 2nd husband, Richard M. Jones, married 1840
Mary Hunt and 1st husband Francis R. Martin, married 1828
Mary Hunt and 2nd husband, D. H. Tucker, married 1838
Cynthia Ann Hunt and husband, Luther Henley, married 1848
Nancy Hunt, died 1851 and husband, W.C. Crawford
2001, no readable markers remain.
Census abstract of the Crawford family Washington County 1850 Census, 408-428:
Crawford, William C. age 33, Born VA, Carpenter
Crawford, Nancy A. age 27, born TN
James H. Crawford, age 10
William E. Crawford, age 8
Cynthia A. Crawford, age 6
Adalaide Crawford, age 5
Pedler Crawford, age 2, female
Mary C. Crawford, age 4 months
1860 Carter County, TN census, Ct. 117
W.C. Crawford, age 44, (m)
Adalaid Crawford, age 15
Perdilla Crawford, age 12 ( This is the one listed as Pedler in 1850)
Mary Crawford, age 10
Rufus Bayles, age 23
The notice included in this note appeared in both the Elizabethton Star and Johnson City Press.
NOTICE
In The Chancery Court For Carter County At Elizabethton, Tennessee
Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Petitioner,
VS
John Doe and Jane Doe
All Relatives By Consanguinity
To Persons Buried On Subject Property
Defendants,
Notice Of Publication, Non-Resident Notice,
Notice To Unknown and Unidentified “Interested Persons”
As Defined BY T.C.A. section 46-4-102
In this Cause, it appearing from the Petition, which is sworn to, that the
Defendants include “Interested Persons” as defined by T.C.A. Section
46-4-102 as persons who are relatives by consanguinity to one or more of
the deceased persons whose remains are buried in the hereinafter described
property, the identities of which are unknown to the Petitioner, but and
attachment having issued and levied upon the hereinafter described
property, it is ORDERED by me that publication be made for four (4)
successive weeks, as required by law, in the Johnson City Press, a
newspaper published in Washington County, Tennessee, and the Elizabethton
Star, a newspaper published in Elizabethton, Tennessee, notifying all
no-resident Defendants, as well as any unknown or unidentified persons who
is a relative by consanguinity to one or more of the deceased persons whose
remains are buried upon the hereinafter described property to file an
answer with the Petitioner’s attorney, Thomas C. McKee whose address is
P.O. Box 1160, 103 E. Main Street, Johnson City, Tennessee 37605-1160
within thirty days (30) from the last date of publication or a judgement by
default may be entered and the cause set for hearing ex parte as to John
Doe and Jane Doe and any unidentified or unknown heir of any Defendant or
person which is a relative by consanguinity to any person buried on the
described property.
The cemetery in question is small and contains no markings to establish the
period or time during which internments took place there, but the same
probably occurred in the 1800’s or early 1900’s possibly during the
ownership of the property by J. Preston Johnson. It is part of a 2.067 acre
tract owned by Charles R. Smith, Jr. situated in the 5th Civil District of
Carter County, Tennessee, located to the north of the Smith Wholesale
Company, Inc, facility and to the east of U.S,. Hwy. 23/Interstate 181 and
which is more particularly described as follows:
Being at and iron pin in the Subject Property , said POINT OF BEGINNING
being north 67 degrees 33 minutes east 286.99 feet from and iron pin in the
easterly sideline of a 50 ft. right-of-way corner to the Subject Property
and Smith Wholesale Company, Inc. Thence with the line of Smith Wholesale
Company, Inc, north 45 degrees 62 minutes east 25.35 feet to and iron pin
in the Subject Property; thence north 52 degrees 38 minutes west 66.80 feet
to and iron pin; thence south 19 degrees 54 minutes west 30.80 feet to and
iron pin; thence south 58 degrees 53 minutes east 55.21 ft. to the POINT OF
BEGINNING
Notice is hereby given that this case has been pre-set for hearing at the
Carter County Courthouse in Elizabethton, Tennessee for the 29 day of June,
2001 at 9:00 am
Charlotte McKeehan,
Clerk & Master, Carter County, TN
by: Charlotte McKeehan
June 29, 2001, at the Carter County Courthouse in Elizabethton, TN, Judge Seeley approved the removal of the remains to be reinterred in the Snyder Memorial Gardens, 5913 Kingsport Hwy., Gray, TN 37615. The cemetery was identified as the Henson Hunt Cemetery.
Three remains were removed to Snyder Memorial Gardens September 4, 2001.
CRAWFORD, NANCY HUNT (consort of W.C. Crawford) d. 5/15/1851
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web September 2001 by members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2013 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
HUNT, HENSEN b. 5/15/1780; d. 12/50/1853
HUNT, MARY M. (wife of Hensen Hunt) b. 1-01-1783; d. 11-13-1876