Hilltop Mission Church Cemetery
Located in the Springdale Community of Kingsport, near Sullivan Gardens. The entrance to the Hilltop Mission Church, Hilltop Mission Cemetery, and Pierce Chapel AME Cemetery is near 1821 Seaver Road. A sign at the road reads “Hilltop Mission Church.”
Pierce Chapel AME Cemetery is the first site on the left. Continue down the road, and the entrance to Hilltop Mission Cemetery is on the right. The cemetery is accessible by a very steep dirt driveway. It is definitely not for a low-bottomed vehicle! Continuing past the cemetery entrance, the Hilltop Mission Church is at the end of the road.
Photographed and transcribed by Donna Briggs and Gary Sawyer in September 2002, part of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. Photographed by Sharon Steele-Smith & Betty Jane Hylton July 2013.
GPS coordinates: 36.501824, -82.572980
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Name |
Birth date |
Death date |
Comments |
| Bellamy, Sue | [No date] | [No date] | [Funeral home marker] |
| Bishop (?), Andrew J. | 1913 | 1991 | [Funeral home marker] |
| Brown, Leatha Sue France | 3 Dec 1969 | 16 Jun 1964 | |
| Carter, Hazel | 8 May 1943 | [No date] | Married Dec. 25, 1969 [Same stone as Lawrence Carter] |
| Carter, Lawrence | 1 Dec 1916 | 31 Aug 1992 | Married Dec. 25, 1969 [Same stone as Hazel Carter] |
| Coleman, Henry H. | 29 Apr 1908 | 19 May 1970 | Father |
| Coleman, Mae C. | 31 Dec 1910 | 14 Dec 1986 | Mother |
| Coleman, Maudie Mae | 24 Dec 1890 | 8 Dec 1972 | Grandmother |
| Collins, Barbara Jo | 1948 | 2010 | Carter-Trent funeral home marker |
| Collins, Dawn Marie | 1984 | 1984 | [Funeral home marker |
| Delp, John | 1900 | 1969 | [Funeral home marker |
| Duncan, Denver S. | 1929 | 1986 | [Same stone as Gladys C. Duncan |
| Duncan, Gladys C. | 1929 | [No date] | [Same stone as Denver Duncan] |
| Ford, Robert W. Jr. | [No date] | [No date] | [Funeral home marker] |
| France, Angela R. | 4 Oct 1970 | [No date] | Married 1989 [Same stone as Glenn France] |
| France, Glenn J. | 28 Nov 1963 | 17 May 2002 | Married 1989 [Same stone as Angela France] |
| France, Ricky D. | [No date] | [No date] | [Funeral home marker] |
| France, Timothy G. | 1989 | [No date] | [Funeral home marker] |
| Lawson, Alberta Coleman | 24 Mar 1928 | 19 Apr 2001 | [Same stone as Jim Lawson] |
| Lawson, Jim McCoy | 11 Aug 1927 | 1 Dec 1980 | [Same stone as Alberta Lawson] |
| Lawson, Phillip Lee | 12 Nov 1980 | 12 Nov 1980 | [Funeral home marker] |
| McClain, Teddy Sr. | 1954 | 2013 | Hamlett-Dobson funeral home marker |
| McMurray, Ada M. | 1942 | 1983 | Mother |
| Mullins, Dolly Cox | 3 Jun 1919 | 15 Apr 1985 | Same stone as Rev. Glen Mullins |
| Mullins, Glen (Rev. ) | 25 Jul 1912 | 26 Sep 1981 | Same stone as Dolly Mullins |
| Mullins, Samuel B. | 1945 | 2012 | Hamlett-Dobson funeral home marker |
| Mullins, Sharon Ann | 1961 | 1961 | Funeral home marker set in concrete |
| Nunley, Barbara | [No date] | [No date] | Same stone as Charles Nunley (hand-carved) |
| Nunley, Charles | [No date] | [No date] | Same stone as Barbara Nunley |
| P., F. J. | [No date] | [No date] | Footstone with no headstone |
| Peters, Fannie Jane Ferguson | 6 Jan 1943 | 15 Sep 2003 | also a FH marker from Hamlett-Dobson |
| Peters, Kermit E. | 9 Nov 1938 | 17 Dec 2010 | “Gone Home” |
| Riley, Patty Jane | 8 Mar 1965 | 4 Nov 2007 | Beloved Mother, Daughter, Sister |
| Scalf, Claude H. | 27 Aug 1921 | May 23, 1983 | Same stone as Gladys Scalf |
| Scalf, Gladys D. | 12 Sep 1925 | 25 Mar 2004 | Same stone as Claude Scalf (also a Hamlett-Dobson FHM) |
| Williams, Arnold | 14 Sep 1923 | 22 Aug 1988 | Same stone as Sarah Jane Arnold |
| Williams, Sarah Jane | 9 Dec 1941 | 10 Jan 2011 | Same stone as Arnold Williams |
I was 26 years old and one of the pallbearers for this mighty man of God. He took me under his mentorship at a young age and taught me a lot about how to enter and stay in God’s presence.
Back in the early 90′ I and a friend visited his grave when all kinds of trouble was coming against me.
All of a sudden a small whirlwind brought leaves out of the nearby woods all the way across the graves then stopped and danced on his grave then opened my bible and it fell open to Paul speaking of a man called up into the third Heaven. Wow