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AKARD to BOY<\/a><\/p>\n BREDEN to FEATHERS<\/a><\/p>\n FIELDS to JORDON<\/a><\/p>\n KESNER to QUALES<\/a><\/p>\n RADER to WOOD<\/a><\/p>\n The Reverend Samuel Doak established New Concord Church possibly as early as 1771 near Bristol. The year 1780 is also a possibility. The name was later changed to Weaver Union Church, in honor of the family whose gift gave the church a permanent home.\u00a0 A historic marker stands in Greeneville, Tennessee, at a spot named \u201cBig Spring,\u201d the juncture of two Indian trails, and mentions that as early as 1780, Reverend Doak preached to the settlers at that spot.<\/p>\n On March 3, 1821 Frederick Weaver traded 409 acres for 392 acres from his brother-in-law John Peters. On June 21, 1823, Frederick gave three acres for the Concord Meeting House and cemetery. The deed was made by Frederick Weaver and his wife to \u201c…Irson Longacre, James S. May, Caleb Morrell, John Miller and John Hughes, commissioners and Trustees, of the Concord Meeting House…for all denominations of Christians worshiping the deity agreeable to the Holy Scriptures.\u201d (Deed Book 27, page 429.)<\/p>\n The Reverend Charles Cummings was the first minister to have charge of this congregation. Since Frederick Weaver did not mention any specific denomination, the church became \u201cWeaver Union Church\u201d in gratitude to the man for his gift, and the community began to be called \u201cWeaver.\u201d On January 12, 1930, a mass meeting was held under the leadership of Reverend Dan Graham, and the plans were laid for a new and larger brick structure to be built. The original building was located in the present-day parking lot.<\/p>\n Some other landmarks attributed to this family are Weavers Creek (now Possum Creek), Weaver Branch, Weaver Pike (from Bristol to Webb\u2019s store), and the Weaver Community which includes the church and cemetery.<\/p>\n Source: \u201cFamilies and History of Sullivan County, Tennessee, Vol. I,\u201d Holston Territory Genealogical Society.<\/em><\/p>\n Submitters:<\/p>\n ALL Anna Lane Long<\/p>\n BK\u00a0\u00a0 Grave marker photos by Barbara Krause<\/p>\n BT\u00a0\u00a0 Barbara Thomas<\/p>\n CB\u00a0 Carol Booher<\/p>\n DC Debi Coe<\/p>\n DK\u00a0\u00a0 Diana Koffler<\/p>\n FM\u00a0 Mary Brown, who also adds, “I was told some of the broken headstones were tossed across the fence into the field of Walter Wampler.”<\/p>\n FP\u00a0 Fred Preston<\/p>\n KRC\u00a0 Kenneth R. Cupp<\/p>\n LB\u00a0 Lonnie Blevins<\/p>\n MHV\u00a0 Marjorie Harris Vickers<\/p>\n MJB\u00a0 Matthew J. Boyer<\/p>\n RWW\u00a0 Ronald W. Wood<\/p>\n SS\u00a0 Cemetery overview photos by Sharon Smith<\/p>\n TBB\u00a0 Tim Booher<\/p>\n TQ\u00a0 Teresa Quinton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Located at Weaver Union Church, 132 Peoples Road at Weaver Pike,\u00a0 Bristol, Tennessee 37620. Inscriptions by Josephine S. Carmack, 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1976. Original annotations provided by S. Kathryn Bowling McKown. TNGenWeb Cemetery Database 1640569 GPS coordinates: 36.524829865, -82.185409546, …<\/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-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7604,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/7604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Weaver](\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Weaver-Cemetery-3-1024x682.jpg\")
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