{"id":1228,"date":"2012-04-10T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan2\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2014-08-01T15:39:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T19:39:45","slug":"gunnings-cemetery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/gunnings-cemetery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunnings Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Located near Central High School on Highway 126\u00a0 (Memorial Boulevard) just southeast of Interstate 81, in the Gunnings Community of Sullivan County, Tennessee.\u00a0 The cemetery is well kept.\u00a0 There is the possibility of several unmarked graves, especially in the center of the cemetery.\u00a0 An effort has been made to count these unmarked graves and fieldstones.\u00a0 The story is told that the first grave was that of a little girl, traveling with her family through the area.\u00a0 She became sick and died and was buried on the nearby hill.\u00a0 This would have been prior to 1760, since the oldest marked grave in the cemetery, according to older transcriptions is that of a Mr. Crawford who died in 1760 at the age of 23 years.\u00a0 This stone has now become illegible.<\/p>\n

A historic marker (1A-35) at the entrance to the cemetery reads, \u201cTaylor\u2019s Meeting House. The Presbyterian Church established here in 1773 is probably the first church of any denomination to be established within the borders of Tennessee. It was also used as a fort, and school was held here on Sundays in pioneer times.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Tennessee Historical Commission<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally annotated by S. Kathryn Bowling McKown. Photographed and transcribed March-June 2005 by Donna Briggs, Jan Clark, Betty Jane Hylton, Chester Willis and Bob Shell.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Donna Briggs and Phil Steadman for so generously sharing their work with Sullivan GenWeb.<\/p>\n

The Gunnings Cemetery Decoration Day is held the second Sunday in September. For additional information, please contact Phil Steadman, President of the New Gunnings Cemetery Association at stea1341(at)aol.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

Map location: 5277B\u00a0 Indian Springs Quad<\/p>\n

GPS location:\u00a0 36\u00b031.53N\u00a0 082\u00b022.55W\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MAP<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gunnings\u00a0 (Old Section)<\/a><\/p>\n

Gunnings Section 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Gunnings Section 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Gunnings Section 3<\/a><\/p>\n

Gunnings Section 4<\/a><\/p>\n

Gunnings Section 5<\/a><\/p>\n

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Additional information submitted by:<\/p>\n

AC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Almeta Ann Shipley Crawford and Savannah Sue Shipley Roberts<\/p>\n

CF\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Charles Ford<\/p>\n

BHP\u00a0 \u00a0 Betty Hays Peterson<\/p>\n

BP\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bruce Powell<\/p>\n

GCW\u00a0\u00a0 Gladys Carmack Weddle<\/p>\n

JS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James Stalcup<\/p>\n

SS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharon Steele-Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Located near Central High School on Highway 126\u00a0 (Memorial Boulevard) just southeast of Interstate 81, in the Gunnings Community of Sullivan County, Tennessee.\u00a0 The cemetery is well kept.\u00a0 There is the possibility of several unmarked graves, especially in the center …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6746,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}