{"id":2527,"date":"2013-01-19T15:33:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T21:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2013-01-19T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T21:34:58","slug":"dempsey-cemetery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/dempsey-cemetery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dempsey Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Located in the woods beside of 636 Rock Hill Road near the Carter County\/Sullivan County line.\u00a0 The cemetery is covered with vinca, and somewhat overgrown.\u00a0 There were at least 40 graves either unmarked or marked only by fieldstones.<\/p>\n

Photographed and transcribed\u00a0\u00a0 7 Oct 2006 by Donna Briggs and Robert Shell.<\/p>\n

Map location: Bluff City Quad<\/p>\n

GPS location:\u00a0 36 \u00b0 24.13N\u00a0 082 \u00b0 16.72W\u00a0\u00a0 Elevation: 1617 ft.<\/p>\n

Transcription on FindAGrave<\/a><\/p>\n

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NAME<\/strong><\/td>\nBIRTH<\/strong><\/td>\nDEATH<\/strong><\/td>\nCOMMENTS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barr, William D.<\/td>\n1 Oct 1886<\/td>\n16 Oct 1886<\/td>\nSon of T. & F. Barr<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brandt, Mickey<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n[Unmarked grave.\u00a0 She was cremated and buried here around 2004]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dempsey, Robert S.<\/td>\n28 Feb 1870<\/td>\n2 Aug 1905<\/td>\nAge 35 Yrs, 5 Mo\u2019s, 4 Days[Stone is broken and lying on the ground]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dempsey, S. E. [Susan E. Shell]<\/td>\n10 Sep 1847<\/td>\n22 Feb 1923<\/td>\n[Shares marker with William H. H. Dempsey]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dempsey, William H. H., Corpl.<\/td>\n14 May 1845<\/td>\n6 Nov 1914<\/td>\n13th Tenn. Cav. Co. H. War 1861\u201465\u00a0 [Two markers, sharing one with S. E. Dempsey]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dempsy, Infant Son<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\nInfant son of W. H. H. & S. E. Dempsy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dempsy, Peter<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\nSon of W. H. H. & S. E. Dempsy; age 3 mos.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dempsy, Willie<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\nSon of W. H. H. & S. E. Dempsy; Aged 6 mos.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fox, Infant Daughter<\/td>\n4 Dec 1890<\/td>\n11 Dec 1890<\/td>\nInfant daughter of M. E. & S. E. Fox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Humphreys, Cordie<\/td>\n6 Jul 1889<\/td>\n15 Jun 1893<\/td>\nDaughter of G. H. & Alice Humphreys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Humphreys, Eugene<\/td>\n15 Aug 1905<\/td>\n11 Jul 1906<\/td>\nSon of M. H. & Fannie Humphreys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Humphreys, Harrison<\/td>\n13 Jan 1893<\/td>\n13 Jan 1893<\/td>\nSon of G. H. & Alice Humphreys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Humphreys, Mattie<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n17 Nov 1896<\/td>\nWife of M. H. Humphreys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Poland, Lauza H.<\/td>\n13 Jan 1860<\/td>\n10 Apr 1886<\/td>\nWife of W. T. Poland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Russell, Earl<\/td>\n10 Oct 1903<\/td>\n18 Dec 1905<\/td>\nSon of H. R. & Mollie Russell; Age 2 y, 2 m, 7 d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Also buried here according to death record:<\/p>\n

Nancy Ann Sweeney \u2013 25 Jan 1857 \u2013 11 Jul 1914 in Carter County, buried in the William H. Dempsey Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Located in the woods beside of 636 Rock Hill Road near the Carter County\/Sullivan County line.\u00a0 The cemetery is covered with vinca, and somewhat overgrown.\u00a0 There were at least 40 graves either unmarked or marked only by fieldstones. Photographed and …<\/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-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","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=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}