Located approximately 50-75 yds. Past the end of Shipley Ferry Road in the woods about 50 yards from the lake’s edge. There were approximately ten graves marked by fieldstone markers, some of these were possibly foot markers. It was very difficult to survey due to the overgrowth.

Photographed and transcribed 30 Oct 2006 by Donna Briggs, Betty Jane Hylton and Jan Clark.

Map location: 5276K Boone Dam Quad

GPS Location: 36°28.90N 082°28.57W Elevation 1307ft.

TNGenWeb Cemetery Database 2098085

One marker was recorded in a previous transcription, but was not found at this time:

Shipley, Joshua, Jr. 13 Feb 1826 – 11 Jun 1881.

Also reported to be buried here:

Shipley, Nancy Huskins 12 Oct 1824 – 9 Dec 1857, wife of Joshua

Shipley, Melvina Cutter, Second wife of Joshua

This was where the Shipley/Snapps Ferry was located in the 1800’s. It was located approximately 100 yards upstream of the Interstate 81 bridge across Fort Patrick Henry Lake. In 1782, Alexander Cavett received a land grant from the state of North Carolina for this property. Two years later, the east bank of the ferry land was granted to James Smith. In 1790, Cavett sold 100 acres of his grant to Conrad Shipley, who sold it to Lawrence Snapp, Jr. eighteen years later. Meanwhile, James Smith, who owned the east landing site of the ferry, sold his grant to Jonathan Phillips, who sold it to Samuel Shipley, who then sold it to Phillip Snapp. Now the Snapp Brothers owned the property on both the east and west banks of the ferry landings. The Snapps must have had some financial problems, as both pieces of property were sold by the sheriff to John and Peter Parsons who sold it to Joshua Shipley in 1829. From this point on, it was known as Shipley’s Ferry.

[Information taken from an article in the Kingsport Times News, 6/27/2007 by Vince Staten; information from Dale Carter]