{"id":2327,"date":"2012-06-28T17:53:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2013-07-01T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T23:27:17","slug":"conklin-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/conklin-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Conklin (Copas) Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Located behind the house at 847 Mitchell Road in Sullivan County, Tennessee.\u00a0 The cemetery is very overgrown with briars and it\u2019s extremely hard to find the stones.\u00a0 Estimated 100 graves marked by fieldstones.<\/p>\n

Photographed and transcribed 9 Jan 2003 by Donna Briggs, Betty Jane Hylton, Dawn Peters, Chester Willis and Bud Cox<\/p>\n

Map location: Sullivan Gardens Quad<\/p>\n

GPS location: 36.4397695 \u201382.5243153<\/p>\n

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Hale, Jesse W.<\/td>\n14 Aug 1844<\/td>\n20 Nov 1916<\/td>\n[The son of Micajah Hale and Lydia Copas.\u00a0 He married Louisa Jackson on 20 Mar 1870 in Washington Co., Tennessee]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hale, Lydia<\/td>\n1803[?]<\/td>\n1859<\/td>\n[Daughter of John Copas and Nancy Jobe.\u00a0 She was possibly born as early as 1798.\u00a0 She married Micajah Hale on 15 November 1823 in Sullivan Co, Tn]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C, Edd[?]<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n13 Jun 1818<\/td>\n[Almost completely illegible and unsure if those are actually initials.]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Copas, [?] H<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n8 Jul 1850<\/td>\n[Almost completely illegibleAn old transcription lists the first initial as \u201cJ\u201d]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hale, Amanda [Jackson]<\/td>\n[Illegible]<\/td>\n[Illegible]<\/td>\n[Only legible letter is a \u201cT\u201d underneath her name.]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Martin, Victoria Copas<\/td>\n1868<\/td>\n1889<\/td>\nWife of W. F. Martin[Married William F. Martin on 17 Nov 1889 in Washington Co., TN.\u00a0 She\u2019s the daughter of Thomas and Mary Copas]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conklin, Thomas M.<\/td>\n3 Apr 1877<\/td>\n7 Sep 1938<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

An old transcription found at the Kingsport Library indicates that there were actually two separate cemeteries.\u00a0 Stones listed on these transcriptions but not found in 2003:\u00a0 Ira Hale, M. B. Hale and Muzy Jackson Hale. Note: there is another Copas Cemetery on Hog Hollow Road in Washington County, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

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Washington Co. Death records<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesse W. Hale, born 14Aug 1844, married, parents: McCagey B. Hale (Sullivan Co.) and Ludice Copass (Sullivan Co), death cause: heart failure, informant: wife (Jonesboro) died: 20 Nov. 1916\u00a0\u00a0 record 529\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(Actually the son of \u201cMicajah and Lydia)<\/p>\n

Sullivan County, Tennessee Death Records, 1919-1925, Vol. 2<\/em><\/strong>, by Eddie M.Nikazy:
\nNancey Ann Conkin, age: 68 years, widow, parents: Thomas Copas and Polly Crawford, death cause: \u201ccancer of liver,\u201d informant: Nathan Lane (Fordtown), buried: Conkin Cemetery, died: 6 Apr. 1922, record (1922): 288.<\/p>\n

Mary Elizabeth Conkin, born: 14 Feb 1875, married, parents: Isaac Zimmerman and Amanda Smith, death cause: \u201cpellagra,\u201d informant: John B. Conkin (Fordtown), buried: Conkin Cemetery, died in the 17th District on 22 Oct 1920, record (1920); 429.<\/p>\n

(Mary E. Zimmerman married John Conkin April 20, 1894 Sullivan Co., TN.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Located behind the house at 847 Mitchell Road in Sullivan County, Tennessee.\u00a0 The cemetery is very overgrown with briars and it\u2019s extremely hard to find the stones.\u00a0 Estimated 100 graves marked by fieldstones. Photographed and transcribed 9 Jan 2003 by …<\/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-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","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=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}