{"id":2265,"date":"2014-05-23T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T18:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:14:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:14:19","slug":"lester-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/lester-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><b style=\"color: #000000\"><i><span style=\"font-size: small\">LESTER CEMETERY<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">Located:\u00a0 South of Sunbright off Hwy 27, turn right jurs past the Pilot Mt. Rd and before you cross Rock Creek. Then bear left app. .1 mile to Eugene Underwood&#8217;s pond, the cemetery being app. 150 ft. west of the pond. There is 1 u\/m grave to the l\/o James R. Lester Jr.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000\" size=\"3\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">These photos were taken in brillant sunlight, making them hard to read.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000\" size=\"3\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/LESTERtopofpage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"350\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr size=\"3\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<table border=\"\" width=\"85%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/NewbroughElsie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"200\" \/>Elsie Newbrough<br \/>\n1927 &#8211; 1969<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/LesterGeorgeP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge P. Lester<br \/>\n1946 &#8211; 1996<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/LesterSimon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSimon P. Lester<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/LesterFay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nFay Lester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/LesterJames.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nJames Lester<br \/>\n<i>(James R., Jr., 9-22-1922, 2-19-1951)<\/i><br \/>\n<i>TN CPL ORD DEPT WWII<\/i><br \/>\n<i>s\/o Roy &amp; Grace<\/i><\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/Lesterunknown2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n??<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/ParksGaryLynn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nGary Lynn Parks<br \/>\n<i>7-16-1959, 11-8-1959<\/i><br \/>\n<i>(s\/o Marshall Ray &amp; Sonja Gale Lester Parks)<\/i><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/LesterJamesR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nJames R. Lester, Jr.<br \/>\n10-10-1900, 10-17-1958<br \/>\n<i>(s\/o Simon &amp; Mary Puckett)<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"\" width=\"90%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/GuinnGerriS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nGerri S. Quinn<br \/>\n4-5-1941, 11-10-1973<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/LesterThomas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"261\" \/><br \/>\nThomas R. Lester<br \/>\nMay 16, 1938<br \/>\nJuly 28, 2001<br \/>\nOBIT:\u00a0<b>LESTER, THOMAS REX,<\/b>\u00a063, formerly of Wartburg died July 28, 2001.\u00a0 Preceded by his parents James and Grace Mincery Lester; brothers, Junior, Jack, Bill and George Pat Lester and sisters Faye Lester and Dean Newbrough.\u00a0 Survivors: sisters, Sonya Gibson of Huntersville, N.C. and Wanda Carter of Elyria, Ohio; brother, S. W. Lester of Syrma, Tenn.\u00a0 Burial in Lester Family Cemetery, Lancing.\u00a0 [Morgan County News]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/LesterGrace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"270\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nMOTHER<br \/>\nGrace M. Lester<br \/>\nSept. 25, 1904<br \/>\nDec. 5, 1972<br \/>\n<i>(d\/o Jack &amp; Ida Jenow Mincy)<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/obits\/KestersonSamuelHNellie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"209\" \/><br \/>\nKESTERSON<br \/>\nNelle J.<br \/>\nSept 21, 1911, 11-17-1975<br \/>\n<i>(d\/o Simon &amp; Mary Puckett Lester-note from Cemetery Book)<\/i><br \/>\n<i>*<\/i><br \/>\nSamuel H.<br \/>\nAug. 19, 1908<br \/>\nJan. 25, 1980<br \/>\n<i>(s\/o Samuel &amp; Jane Human Kesterson)<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000\" size=\"3\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">Photos Courtesy of Howard Weaver\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000\" size=\"3\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LESTER CEMETERY\u00a0Located:\u00a0 South of Sunbright off Hwy 27, turn right jurs past the Pilot Mt. Rd and before you cross Rock Creek. Then bear left app. .1 mile to Eugene Underwood&#8217;s pond, the cemetery being app. 150 ft. west of the pond. There is 1 u\/m grave to the l\/o James R. Lester Jr.\u00a0 These&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/lester-cemetery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lester Cemetery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}