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Location: 1/2 mile east of Bristol Caverns between mail boxes #1380 & #1393, Bristol Caverns Highway. Also listed as the Sells Cemetery.

Description: CHAPMAN-MOORE CEMETERY is located 1/2 mile east of Bristol Caverns between mail boxes #1380 & #1393, Bristol Caverns Highway. There are many unmarked graves and 35 with fieldstone or other markers too worn to read. It is listed on the TVA map as Chapman. Part is fenced separately & a neighbor referred to is as the Moore Cemetery as though it were a separate cemetery. All on list named Arnold, Grubb, Moore & Williams in this separate section.

Originally listed as simply Chapman Cemetery on USGS

Burial records: 52

Recorder: JB Jeff Barr

USGS Map: Holston Valley

GPS Location: 36.551498, -82.111796

Elevation: 1716 ft.

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Additional Information:

Note from Jeff Barr (JB): “This land was originally owned by Isaac Sells (later deeded to his son John C. Sells) of whom I am a descendant. In an old deed, this same cemetery is referred to as the Sells Family cemetery. At first I thought that there was another cemetery on the land, but I’m fairly certain that these are one in the same. A relative of mine mentioned that there was a Chapman family living nearby. However, I would like to find out why the name was changed from Sells to Chapman-Moore. If you have further information or can clarify this ‘mystery,’ we would like to hear from you.”