{"id":151,"date":"2012-01-28T17:59:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T23:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan2\/?p=151"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:06:56","slug":"arrants-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/arrants-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrants Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

To see a full listing of burials in this cemetery please click here<\/a>.<\/p>

Location: About 1.25 miles east of 19E in Piney Flats<\/p>

Description: Originally annotated by S. Kathryn Bowling McKown. Reading by Vandy Mauk May 8, 1989. There are many broken, incomplete markers and many too worn to read. Additional information submitted by Rick Redman. \r\n<\/p>

\r\n[UPDATE] On 23 Mar 2007, we found that the cemetery had been cleared and the stones uprighted. We counted 22 graves marked by fieldstones and at least one unmarked grave. Three 'head and shoulder' type tombstones are now illegible.<\/p>

Burial records: 24<\/a><\/p>

Recorder: transcribed 26 Jul 2002 by Donna Briggs and Bob Shell. <\/p>

USGS Map: Bluff City<\/p>

GPS Location: 36.429272, -82.287079<\/p>

Elevation: 1509 ft.<\/p>

Searchable burial information, an interactive map and additional information on this cemetery\n\t\tcan be found by visiting the cemetery database click here<\/a><\/p>

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Marker Photos by Lori Russell and her two children, Amber and Caleb of Piney Flats, Tennessee (provided by Pat Hawkins.)<\/p>\n

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A little Arrants history provided by Pat Hawkins & Pat Arrants<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

We do not know where their journey started but the indenture paper that says \u201cJulian Arnst\u201d and refers to her son of 3 or 4, \u201cJohannes.\u201d At this point of the paper, she had agreed to work an extra length of time (8 years) so that Johannes could be taken care of. We have never found where she was before this time \u2014 which was in 1723. Nor can we find her later. She was indentured to a Francis Mauldin. After the date of the indenture paper, where did she go?<\/span><\/p>\n

After Johannes\u2019 indenture time was completed, he was a very industrious man and became quite prosperous. The Maryland Society made better provisions than most of the other colonies for indentured servants upon fulfillment of the contracts. Customarily the servant was given a full suit of clothes, fifty acres of land, an ax, two hoes and three barrels of corn. For an enterprising person this was sufficient for him to establish himself as a farmer and enterprising person, and take his place in community affairs. Apparently Johannes used all of these conditions to his best advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n