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Located in Horse Creek Village in the Sullivan Gardens area of Sullivan County. After turning onto Derby Drive, turn onto Belmont Court.  The cemetery is behind the second house on the left.  Several of the stones have been pulled up and piled up beside a tree.  There were six fieldstones that had been removed and six fieldstones still in the ground.

Transcribed and photographed June 10, 2003 by Donna Briggs, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.

Map location: Sullivan Gardens Quad

USGS GNIS ID: 1297169

Latitude 36.457600000, longitude -82.610530000, elevation 1247 ft.

Peoples Cem

NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

COMMENTS

Peoples, Mary A. 13 Sep 1829 12 Dec 1894 Wife of A. J. Peoples[Maiden name Tittsworth]
Peoples, Andrew J. 30 Apr 1826 12 Aug 1869 [Stone is broken]
Murrell, Henry [Ca 1824] [21 Jul 1916] [No tombstone; information from death certificate]
Peoples, Lucretia Murrell [20 Jan 1779] [aft 1828] [No tombstone; information that she is buried here from a descendant]
Peoples, John [9 Jul 1776] [4 Feb 1840] [No tombstone; information that he is buried here from a descendant]

 

Additional Information:

Sullivan County death records:

MURRELL, Henry, black, age 92 years, born in Sullivan County, parents: unknown, death cause: not stated, informant: W. M. Bachman (Fall Branch), buried: Peoples Cemetery, died: 21 Jul 1916, record (1916): 391


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