Colbaugh Cemetery
Behind 485 Fannie Drive in the Piney Flats area of Sullivan County )his address is an abandoned house.) The cemetery is well kept. There are 96 stones marked by only fieldstones and probably many more unmarked graves.
Photographed and transcribed 26 Jul 2002 by Donna Briggs and Bob Shell
Additional information from the research of Bob Shell
Map Location: Bluff City Quad
Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
Carr, G. [Gordon] | 16 Feb 1809 | 14 Jul 1886 | [Same stone as Mary Carr; son of William Carr] |
Carr, Harriet E. | 22 Apr 1891 | 17 Jul 1891 | Daughter of W. M. Carr |
Carr, Margret | 2 Nov 1851 | 15 Jan 1895 | Wife of W. M. Carr |
Carr, Mary [Mary Polly Gale] | 20 Feb 1820 | 21 Nov 1907 | [Same stone as G. Carr, second wife of Gordon] |
Colbaugh, Granville | [No date] | [No date] | Co. A., 13th Tenn. Cav. U.S. [Killed at Drury’s Bluff in the Civil War] |
Colbaugh, Moriah (Moriah Gale) | 19 Apr 1842 | 19 Apr 1923 | Wife of Samuel Colbaugh [Daughter of Mary Polly Gale, Twin sister-Harriet Susan Gale] |
Colbaugh, Robert A. | 21 Jul 1879 | 10 Sep 1895 | [Son of Samuel and Moriah Colbaugh; died of typhoid] |
Colbaugh, Samuel | 16 Aug 1824 | 10 Jul 1887 | Aged 62 Yr., 8 Mo. & 24da. Son of John and Mary Milhorn Colbaugh |
Colbaugh, William G. [Granville] | 25 Oct 1864 | 29 Mar 1892 | Aged 27 Yrs. 5 Mo., 4 Ds. Son of Samuel and Moriah. Killed in a train wreck in Afton, Tennessee] |
Cole, George F. | [No date] | [No date] | [Son of John Cole] |
Cole, John | [No date] | 19 Jun 1867 | Aged 35 years |
Cole, Lizzie J. | [No date] | [No date] | [Daughter of John Cole] |
Cole, W. P. | 5 Oct 1827 | [No date] | Aged about 70 years |
Dempsey, Fred C. | 27 Apr 1895 | 5 Jun 1916 | |
Dempsey, John A. | 1 Jan 1835 | 7 May 1911 | 48 Va. Reg. Co. D.[Born in South Carolina] |
Dempsey, Martha Ann Carr | 1852 | 1914 | Wife of J. A. Dempsey Mother |
Humphreys, Sally | [No date] | 28 Jan 1891 | Aged 52 years |
Kolbaugh, J. | [No date] | 3 or 31 Sep 1832? | [Very old hand carved stone. Date actually looks like 31, although there are not 31 days in September.] |
Malone, Hiley J.[Hiley Jane] | 8 Mar 1844 | 17 Apr 1895 | Wife of G. W. (George Washington) Malone |
Nolan, Dennis | [No date] | [No date] | Co. H. 13th Tenn. Cav, U.S. [He was born in Ireland; husband of Martha Colbaugh] |
Nowlen, Martha[Colbaugh] | [No date] | 26 Oct 1884 | [Daughter of John and Mary Colbaugh; wife of Dennis Nowlen] |
Rumbley, Infant | 28 Jun 1903 | 28 Jun 1903 | Infant of C. R. & N. R. Rumbley |
Rumbley, Lillie P. | 16 Feb 1892 | 9 Jun 1894 | Dau. Of C. R. & N. R. Rumbley |
Rumbley, Lula E. | 2 Jul 1894 | 22 Jun 1896 | Dau. Of C. R. & N. R. Rumbley |
Shell, Lula E. | 13 Sep 1874 | 3 Nov 1903 | Wife of T. C. Shell. Daughter of Samuel and Moriah Colbaugh |
Wagner, Harve | 2 Jun 1901 | 19 Jul 19? | Son of W. L & N. Wagner |
Wagner, James Edward | 12 Jun 1886 | 30 Oct 1895 | Son of H. G. & M. Wagner [Henry and Mary Dempsey Wagner] |
Wagner, Jenny | 16 Jan 1904 | 7 Mar 1904 | Dau. Of W. L. & N. Wagner |
Wagner, Lecy Jane | April 14, 1874 | 15 Apr 1874 | Dau. Of H. G. & M Wagner [Henry and Mary Dempsey Wagner] |
Wagner, Thomas M. | 8 Mar 1891 | 22 Jun 1902 | Son of H. G. & M Wagner [Henry and Mary Dempsey Wagner] |
I am the one trying to keep the cemetary clean now, since moving to 475 Fannie Drive 4 months ago. A big tree had fell, been having a time trying to get it cut up to remove.