Norris (Joseph) Cemetery
2005
Located off Mosely Rd., Gray, Tennessee behind a fenced Washington County Highway Department gravel area, next to the Washington County Solid Waste/Recycling Center at 160 Mosely Rd. Gray, TN. The cemetery is fenced.
GSP Location: 36º23.99 N 082º28.77 W; Elevation: 1605 ft.
There are approximately ten graves, six with field stones, one with a Hamlett-Dobson funeral home marker with all the letters missing, except a birth date of 1903 and three unmarked graves.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web April 2005 by Donna Cox Briggs, Jan Clark, Chester Willis, Bob Shell and Betty Jane Hylton 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.
Additional information:
An older resident of the community stated that she personally knew four of the peopled buried in the Norris Cemetery. They were Joe Norris, his wife, nicknamed Sis and their two sons, Buck and Sam.
1870 Census of Washington County, TN, District 12, Buffalo Ridge P. O. page 296
#43-43
NORRIS, Harden 66
Julia A. 39
Joseph 7
James 5
White 3
Louisa 1
1900 Census of Washington County, TN, 12th District, page 176
#66-68
NORRIS, Joseph B. 37 head born Jan 1863
Lydia V. 30 wife born Feb 1870
Joseph L. 13 son born Mar 1887
Hattie 10 dau born Oct 1889
James 8 son born Aug 1891
Martha 5 dau born Aug 1894
Ephriam B. 3 son born Sep 1897
1910 Census of Washington County, TN, District 12, page 19
#133-135
NORRIS, James [sic] B. 47 (second marriage)
Lydia V. 42 (first marriage, mother of nine children, eight living)
Hattie 21
James M. 18
Martha E. 16
Ephriam B. 14
Elbert 12
Samuel H. 6
Susan 4
1920 Census of Washington County, TN, District 12, page 196
# 8-8
NORRIS, Joseph 56
Lydia V. 52
James O. 27
Ephraim B. 23
Elbert 19
Samuel H. 17
Susan 13
Gertrude 9
NORRIS, Bessie M. 19 (daughter-in-law)
1930 Census of Washington County, TN, District 12, page 30
#18-18
NORRIS, Joe B. 65
Gertie 19
John (gr’son) 2 (2 years and unknown months, [illegible])
Washington County, TN Marriages, 1780-1870, by Goldene F. Burgner
6 Feb 1862 Harden Norris to Julia Riffey, 5 Feb 1862, L. Bowers, J.P.
Washington County Tennessee Marriage Records 1871-1899, by Watauga Association of Genealogists Northeast Tennessee.
03 Apr 1888 J.B. Norris to Lydia V. Nelson, 02 Apr 1888, Geo. R. Duncan