Buchanan Family Cemetery
This cemetery extracted by George and Judy Gunter Baumbach on 10/22/1989
Located in Smoky Mountain National Park on the Grandpa Buchanan Branch of Cane Creek, on land formerly owned by GY (Greenberry Young) Buchanan in the community of Cane. Buchanan Cemetery is accessed by trails from Cades Cove, and Miller’s Cove (on land of Mountain Homes), and by a road from Abram’s Creek campground. Three graves are unmarked or have unreadable field stones.
Name Birth Death Notes
Buchanan, Gibbs July 15, 1869 October 7, 1915 son of GY Buchanan and Lydia Garland
Buchanan, Frankie Johnson January 15, 1815 December 3, 1889 Frances Johnson, mother of GY Buchanan and wife of Joseph Buchanan who died c1885 Bean Creek, Mitchell Co., NC. One field stone survives, Frankie Buchanan b. 181_.
Buchanan, Lidia M. August 3, 1847 March 24, 1892 Lydia Garland, wife of GY Buchanan, and daughter of Charles Garland and Rebecca Blevins of Mitchell Co., NC
Buchanan, Rosa Music October 28, 1874 August 4, 1912 wife of Gibbs Buchanan
Buchanan, Sara A. April 4, 1892 August 18, 1892 Sarah Annis Buchanan, daughter of Rev. Ezekial (E.Z.) Buchanan and Nancy Jane Simerly. Double stone with Walter B. Buchanan.
Buchanan, Walter B. May 2, 1908 October 25, 1909 son of Rev. Ezekial (E.Z.) Buchanan and Nancy Jane Simerly. Double stone with Sara A. Buchanan.
Buchanan, Walter C. March 14, 1889 November 24, 1910 son of GY Buchanan and Lydia Garland
Buchanan, William David November 15, 1875 September 11, 1916 son of GY Buchanan and Lydia Garland
Conley, Frank April 22, 1891 February 12, 1909 son of Rosa Music and James Conley of Macon Co., NC
Garland, Margaret Jane May 6-1913 November 1913 daughter of Jake (Jacob) and Sarah Davis Franklin Garland of Cades Cove
Simerley, Norah Lee February 5, 1900 May 15, 1902 N/A
Buchanan is an Appalachian name from Scotland and Northern Ireland . I am proud of this fact because it is an honorable name in most cases.