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Location: On a vacant lot on the north side of Birdwell Street in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Description: Birdwell-Melear Cemetery is located on a vacant lot on the north side of Birdwell Street in Kingsport, Tennessee. The cemetery was covered with kudzu and very difficult to survey. There were three bases found, but only two legible stones and one fieldstone.
Map Location: Kingsport Quad
GPS Location: 36 31.27 -082 31.19 Elevation: 1381 ft.

Burial records: 2

Recorder: Photographed and transcribed August 9, 2004 by Donna Briggs.

USGS Map: Kingsport

GPS Location: 36.521168, -82.519836

Elevation: 1381 ft.

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Additional information

1880 Census of Sullivan County, household #472

BIRDWELL, Jesse       50

Mary                44

Roena              23

George             20

Richard            18

C. M.   (f)         18

Mariah             16

Mary Kate       12

Sarah F.            8

Robert               5

Jessee W.         2

 

1880 Census of Sullivan County, household # 492

HOLT, John                 59

Elizabeth           56

John J.              21

Adam D.          19

Mary L.            16

 

1900 Census of Sullivan County, District 11, household #29-30

MELEAR, John            70

Nannie J.          64        (mother of one child/ one living)

M. Ethel           21

 

Marriages of Sullivan County, Tennessee

HOLT, A. D. and BIRDWELL, M. K.  married on 26 Oct 1892


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