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Location: On a hill in a field between Childress Ferry Road and Park Ridge Court.

Description: Located on a hill in a field between Childress Ferry Road and Park Ridge Court. The cemetery is in fair condition.

Burial records: 38

Recorder: Photographed and transcribed 22 Dec 2003 by Betty Jane Hylton, Bob Shell and Donna Briggs

USGS Map: Indian Springs

GPS Location: 36.50805, -82.46748

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Additional Information:

Kingsport Times News, 29 Apr 1926:  Mrs. Elizabeth Childress, aged 86 years, passed away at her home on Kingsport route 3 at 3:30 o’clock this morning.  She has been seriously ill for three weeks. Mrs. Childress is survived by three sons, as follows: Dr. R. T. Childress, W. T. Childress and J. W. Childress. Funeral services will be conducted from the home at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.  Interment will take place at Childress cemetery.

Sullivan County, Tennessee Deed Book 73, page 254

Noah Galloway & wife, et al                         We Noah A. Galloway

to                                             and wife Ida Galloway

Johney Moody, et al Trustees                       and Francis Galloway

have this day for the respect

we have for the dead we have this day bargained and gave and conveyed to old Uncle Johney Moody and James Arnold and A. B. Ford as Trustees and there succrs  arferter them for ever that may be put in arfter there a grave yard  The Childress Grave yard on the Galloway farm.  The amount that is now enclosed and under fence and for the use of the public that wants to burry at said Burring Ground but the said A. R. Huddle has the right to say what road that the people is to travel to said Burry Ground and the said A. R. Huddle are whoever ones the Galloway Farm here arfter is to have the wright to join his fence to said Grave yard fence to have and to hold the same to the said Joohn Mood and James Arnold and A. O. Ford and there successors forever we covenant with the said John Mood James Arnold and A. R. Ford trustees that we are lawfully seized and possesst of said land have a good right to convey it and that the same is unencumbered we further covenant and bind ourselves our heirs and representatives to warrant and forever defend the title to the said Graveyard to the within named trustees against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever in witness whereof we have signed our names this the 31^st day of May 1902 and that the fence is to be keep in good repare.

N. A. Galloway

her

Francis  (X)  Galloway

mark

Ida Galloway

State of Tennessee                                       Personally appeared before

County of Sullivan                              me,    C C Smith a Notary

Public for said County and

State the within named bargainors Noah A. Galloway and Francis Gallowy with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledged that they executed the within instrument for the purposes therein contained and Ida Galloway wife of the said Noah A. Galloway having appeared before me privately and apart from her husband the said Noah A. Galloway acknowledged the execution of the said Deed to have been done by her freely, voluntarily and understandingly, without compulsion or constraint from her husband, and for the purposes therein expressed.

Witness my hand and official seal at office at Indian Springs on the 31^st day of May A. D. Nineteen Hundred and 2.

C C. Smith

Notary Public

Rec’d and recorded the foregoing Deed and certificate therto attached on July 9, 1902 at        o’clock P.M.

J. M. Yost, Reg.

By D. E. Yost D. R.