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Location: Sulphur Springs Rd., Rudolph

Description: (records migrated from legacy TNGenWeb website)

Directions: From Brownsville take Highway 54 north to Belle Eagle and turn left on Rudolph Road. Church and cemetery will be on the right just past Sulphur Springs Road.

Source: Funeral home, obituaries, family members and reading by Vickie Evans.

Notes: Also known as lower Zion.

Burial records: 632

Recorder: Vickie Evans

USGS Map: Jones

GPS Location: 35.703411, -89.244232

Elevation: 341 ft.

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Location: Off of Highway 76

Description: (records migrated from legacy TNGenWeb website)

The cemetery is located about 1 block from Hwy 76, in 1976, about 2 blocks from the dirt road across a field, located behind the 1976 home of Jim English.

This cemetery was started by the Reverend John Chilton on his farm for parishioners of Zion Episcopal Church in Brownsville.

Jane Johnson was an Episcopalian and a member of Zion Church, founded in 1832. She was the oldest member of our Johnson family to come to Haywood Co TN from Warranton NC.

John Chilton, first Minister of Zion Church, was her son-in-law. Rebecca Bond, her daughter, was the second wife of Chilton.

Henry Sheppard was the son of Rebecca by her first marriage to James H. Sheppard.

Mary B. Chilton was a daughter or a niece of John and Rebecca Chilton.

Identity of Little Johnnie is unknown.

Miscellaneous records of Zion Episcopal Church, TN State Library, Nashville Tn, show that 2 other members of the Johnson family are buried here.

Egbert Sheppard, d. 6 Sep 1873, husband of Jane Johnson's step-daughter, Mary J. Sheppard; and Henry Johnson Chilton, d. 18 Nov 1868, probably a nephew of John and Rebecca Chilton.

When Rebecca died, she was married for a third time, to William P. Bond.

Jane Deborah Johnson was a sister of Judge John Haywood, prominent jurist in Tennessee and the man for whom Haywood County is named.

It is probable there are other unmarked grave in Zion Cemetery.

Notes and listing from John C. Wynn.

Burial records: 7

Recorder: John C. Wynn

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