{"id":5138,"date":"2013-07-01T20:14:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2013-07-19T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T17:33:02","slug":"hargis-jones-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/hargis-jones-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hargis-Jones Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

This cemetery was located on the property at 2364 Rock Springs Road. The area, including the home at 2364 has been turned into a subdivision and elementary school.<\/p>\n

At the time of the relocation, there was only one marked grave and five or six graves marked only by fieldstones. The Jones family were some of the earliest settlers in the area, establishing their home probably in the late 1700s. The farm was handed down through the family over the years, and eventually became the property of the Hargis family.\u00a0 The cemetery is called the Hargis Cemetery, but there was only one marked grave – Richardson Jobe – but from research we know this was actually a cemetery for the old Jones family and some of their descendants.<\/p>\n

Transcribed and photographed 25 Jun 2002 by Donna Briggs and Gary Sawyer. Photo below is the cemetery prior to its relocation to the Double Springs Cemetery.<\/p>\n

\"Hargis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/td>\n\n

Birth<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Death<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Comments<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Jobe, Richardson<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\nAged 84 years [Dates are approx. 1813-1897]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Hargis Cemetery \/ Jones Cemetery Research <\/strong><\/h3>\n

by Donna Briggs<\/strong><\/p>\n

On September 13, 2007, I (Donna Briggs) received an email from the attorney for the City of Kingsport, Mike Billingsley.\u00a0 He indicated that he wished to locate the relatives of Richardson Jobe, who was buried on property now owned by the city.\u00a0 He asked that I contact him with any information that I might have on the relatives of Richardson Jobe or others who might be buried in the Hargis cemetery.<\/p>\n

I contacted several of my Jobe relatives that are interested in genealogy and enlisted their help to determine who should be included in the decision making for this grave removal.\u00a0 I also contacted Dianna Chesser, who is a Jones descendant, as the property belonged to the Jones family and Richardson Jobe had married a Jones daughter.\u00a0 Old articles and information indicated that this \u201cHargis Cemetery\u201d was actually the Jones Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Mr. Billingsley and I corresponded for a year and I sent as much documentation on the cemetery as I could possibly find and probably much more genealogy than he ever wanted. We all met at the cemetery on that September day in 2008 and witnessed the removal.<\/p>\n

I sent out the following note to my Jobe relatives to let them know that the removal had been completed:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all done.\u00a0 We met there at 9:00 a.m. and work began\u2026the first grave that they exhumed was Richardson\u2019s.\u00a0 The first item that was found was the base to Richardson\u2019s tombstone, then some type of coffin lock, a bunch of broken glass, and a small piece of a skull.\u00a0 They eventually dug out seven or eight large holes, finding a few small pieces from 4 graves.\u00a0 The last grave had two leg bones and a piece of skull. We were there three hours. When a grave was located, they brought in another small child-sized coffin and put any pieces that they found into it. We then went to the church cemetery where all four boxes were placed in one large grave, just behind the church.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve got to say that it was handled very much to my satisfaction. Every tiny piece of wood, bone, glass, even the coffin lock went into the boxes that were reburied. The developer was there and he told us why they opted to remove the cemetery\u2014he said that when they began work, the original plan was to leave the cemetery and put a wall around it.\u00a0 He said that he was so concerned because the way the area had been landscaped, the cemetery was up on a knoll and the road curved around it, which created a blind curve.\u00a0 One of his children was hit by a car and he said that it was such a similar type area, that it really bothered him. They\u2019re building an elementary school within 500 yards of the cemetery and there will be children all over the place\u2014he said that he was just so worried that a child would be hit by a car on that curve.\u00a0 The developer was not someone that you could be angry with\u2014and believe me, I wanted to.\u00a0 He was so nice and I really felt like that blind curve was the part that worried him so much.<\/p>\n

“The attorney had never handled a cemetery removal, and he was extremely accommodating, even offering to take photos of us. Dianna Chesser, a Jones descendant and I were the only family members present.\u00a0 The men from the funeral home, the attorney, the developer and even the guy running the backhoe were definitely very caring about our feelings and would dig anywhere we asked them to and for as long as we asked them to!\u00a0 Richardson\u2019s tombstone went to the cemetery with him and they\u2019re going to put down another marker acknowledging Richardson\u2019s Civil War service and in remembrance of John Jones, who we are sure, is buried there.\u00a0 Dianna and I were asked to talk it over this evening, and decide what we wanted put on them and they\u2019d take care of it.<\/p>\n

“The pastor of the Double Springs Baptist Church was on hand at the re-interment and offered a prayer before the burial.”<\/p>\n

\"Hargis<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Double<\/a><\/p>\n

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Death and Obituary Notices from the Jonesboro Herald and Tribune<\/em><\/h3>\n

Volume XXVIII, #47, 17 Mar 1897<\/p>\n

Died: The 10th<\/sup> at Double Springs, a daughter of Thomas Hargis, from the measles.<\/p>\n

Rachel Jones probably died sometime just prior to August 5, 1889. Her name appears in records of administrative bonds secured from J. Hite, Richardson Job, and E.B. Ingh. This procedure seems to be due to the fact she died without a will. The 1880 census indicates that the mother of Rachel Jones was born in Virginia.\u00a0 The census clearly identifies Rachel Jones as the sister-in law of Richardson Job, and therefore the sister of Eliza.\u00a0 It seems certain Rachel Jones was buried in what became known as the Hargis Cemetery. I have personally visited this place where the cattle have knocked down all the stones and only two remain visible. One is that of Richardson Jobe, age 84 years (per my memory, recorded in a letter shortly after a visit to East Tennessee.) The other stone was a simple one having only the initials “R. J.”\u00a0 This stone was probably Rachel Jones’ marker.\u00a0 (“East Tennessee Roots”<\/em> by Stuart Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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