OLD FALL BRANCH BAPTIST CEMETERY (HOPPER CEMETERY)

Old Fall Branch Cemetery (Hooper Cemetery)
2003

Turn off TN Hwy 93 in the middle of Fall Branch onto Bank Drive. The cemetery is located behind a trailer park on the right, 0.2 mile after turning onto Bank Drive. It is on a large lot that has been cleared and mowed. 

GPS location: 36º25.048N 082º37.676W

Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 2004 by Donna Cox Briggs 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 of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.

Additional information:

Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists. Information used with the permission of Lorraine Bennett Rae.
From volume 3, page 3 – entry 3
“OLD FALL BRANCH BAPTIST/HOPPER – …..WCCL: Established 1827…..”
DEEDS –
Deed Book 32, Page 81 (1847) – Jesse H. Crouch to Eldridge S. Edwards – 103 acres and excepts the graveyard.
Deed Book 32, Page 159 (1848) – Jesse H. Crouch to Fall Branch Church (Trustees of the Fall Branch Baptist Church) – small parcel for purposes of a burial ground.  Wording indicated that the burial ground already was in existence.  Deed also included a parcel for a church building.  It is unknown why the timing of this deed was executed after DB32-81, which clearly noted the exception of the graveyard.
Deed Book 36, Page 654 (1858) – Eldridge S. Edwards to Noah C. Baldwin – same 103 acres with graveyard exception.
Deed Book 38, Page 283 (1862) – Noah C. Baldwin to Richard M. Hopper – same 103 acres with graveyard exception.
During the early part of the 20th century, several parcels surrounding the burial ground were vested out of John H. Hopper to John & Grace Duncan.  These deeds were reviewed only to the extent to establish the Hopper name association, which apparently was added based upon John Hopper’s surrounding ownership during the WCCL survey period.  It does not appear that any of the Hoppers actually ever owned the graveyard parcel.

Deeds researched and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web December 2016 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2016 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.

Sullivan County, Tennessee U.S. Census 1850

#1157  Elia A. Keene 31, Rebecca 34, Mary 9, Martha 7, Easther 5, Vunetta 1, Wm. Ludmon 80, b. VA. All the Keene family born in TN.

Morgan, Mary was the 2^nd wife of Gabriel Morgan, Oct 26, 1794 – March 24, 1880 Her maiden name was Whitlock and they were married July 10, 1813 in Wash. Co. Tenn.; 1st w. was Mary McNabb, dau of James, married Dec 24, 1795, in Rockbridge, VA.

Lewis Hale was the son of Meshack Hale who fought in the Revolutionary War and wife, Mary Kincheloe.  Lewis fought in the War of 1812.  He was married to: 1) Elizabeth Bragg and   2) Elizabeth McCrary Whitlock, who is buried in Union Baptist Cemetery.

Also buried here according to old records:

Abraham Moore July 2, 1790-1835/1855. He was married to Polly (Mary) Morgan on September 20, 1815. She was the daughter of Gabriel Morgan and his first wife, Mary McNabb Morgan.
Sarah, another wife of William Mullenix, March 6, 1817 – February 13, 1848. Her maiden name was Leab and they were married on December 30, 1838.
Mary Mullenix, June 26 1816 – January 9, 1904.
Nancy, consort of John Pickens, August 22, 1807 – November 18, 1853
William Stephenson, died January 16, 1845; aged 93 yr. 16 d. Thhis mean he was born in 1752.
Alexander J. Hall.

CONFEDERATE TEXAS TROOPS
21st Regiment, Texas Cavalry (1st Texas Lancers)    Company K

21st Cavalry Regiment [also called 1st Texas Lancers] was organized during the spring of 1862, with about 800 men. They were from Parker, Dallas, Bell, and Austin counties. It was assigned to Hawes’, Cooper’s, Steele’s, and Lane’s Brigade in the Trans-Mississippi Department. The unit was active in Marmaduke’s Missouri Raid, then skirmished in various conflicts in Louisiana where a detachment reported 5 killed and 4 wounded at Calcasieu Pass. Later it saw action in Arkansas. The 21st disbanded before the surrender in June, 1865. Colonel George W. Carter, Lieutenant Colonel DeWitt C. Giddings, and Major Benjamin D. Chenoweth were in command.

Possible parentage for Alexander Hall is James Hall, Sr. born 25 Dec 1795 in Washington County, NC and Nellie Morrison born 26 Jul 1797 in Washington County, TN. [Parentage information found on Rootsweb. It has not been confirmed.]

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