{"id":7215,"date":"2015-07-15T22:28:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T02:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2015-07-15T22:28:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T02:28:21","slug":"thomas-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/thomas-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Located between Matilda Place and Sterling Drive in the Cooks Valley area of Sullivan County. A portion of this cemetery is mowed by a neighbor, but the majority is overgrown. The lot is approximately \u00bd acre. There were at least 65 graves marked by fieldstones.<\/p>\n

Photographed and transcribed 29 Dec 2004 by Gary Sawyer and Donna Briggs, members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Map Location: Indian Springs Quad<\/p>\n

GPS location: 36\u00b031.80N 082\u00b028.78W Elevation: 1445 ft.<\/p>\n

TNGenWeb Cemetery Database 1272487<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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NAME<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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BIRTH<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DEATH<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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COMMENTS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Spears, S. Elizabeth<\/td>\n1872<\/td>\n1940<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Palmer, Cordelia L.<\/td>\n5 Oct 1867<\/td>\n6 Jul 1887<\/td>\nWife of Wm. G. Palmer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Childress, Ella<\/td>\n24 Sep 1862<\/td>\n17 Jul 1898<\/td>\nWife of J. W. Childress<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shipley, Mary<\/td>\n1841<\/td>\n1901<\/td>\n[Shares marker with William H. Shipley]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shipley, William H.<\/td>\n1846<\/td>\n1916<\/td>\nPVT 5 TENN CAV Confederate States Army<\/p>\n

[Shares marker with Mary Shipley]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Thomas, James R.<\/td>\n1858<\/td>\n1939<\/td>\n[Shares marker with Matilda E. Thomas]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas, Matilda E.<\/td>\n1858<\/td>\n1932<\/td>\n[Shares marker with James R. Thomas]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas, P. M.<\/td>\n9 Jun 1833<\/td>\n1 Oct 1897<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas, Elizabeth C.<\/td>\n1863<\/td>\n1903<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas, Mary J.<\/td>\n15 Aug 1835<\/td>\n7 Nov 1893<\/td>\nWife of P. M. Thomas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harbour, John<\/td>\n31 Jul 1809<\/td>\n24 Oct 1894<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dickson, Sarah<\/td>\n7 Jan 1827<\/td>\n17 Oct 1906<\/td>\nWife of George Dickson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Unknown]<\/td>\n1773<\/td>\n12 Jul 1840<\/td>\n[Stone is missing crucial letters; hard to interpret]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lemon, W. M.<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n5 Apr 1915<\/td>\nAged 42 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rutledge, George W. R.<\/td>\n10 Jun 1892<\/td>\n14 Sep 1892<\/td>\nSon of R. B. and H. L. A. Rutledge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lemons, Rebecca Jane<\/td>\n13 Oct 1865<\/td>\n14 Feb 1947<\/td>\n[Metal marker next to a fieldstone]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lemons, Billie Joe<\/td>\n[One date]<\/td>\n27 Jun 1955<\/td>\n[Funeral home marker]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gibson, Sylvester<\/td>\n1941<\/td>\n1951<\/td>\n[Funeral home marker next to a hand carved stone]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
J. M.<\/td>\n[One date]<\/td>\n12 Aug 1865<\/td>\n[Hand carved stone]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
J. N. H. M.<\/td>\n26 Apr 1851<\/td>\n24 Aug 1854<\/td>\nAge 3 y 4 m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moody, Lucy M. Horn<\/td>\n27 Apr 1879<\/td>\n29 Jul 1900<\/td>\nWife of C. F. Moody<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moody, William H.<\/td>\n26 Apr 1840<\/td>\n24 Sep 1928<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moody, Willie D.<\/td>\n21 Feb 1886<\/td>\n20 Jun 1894<\/td>\nSon of W. H. & C. A. Moody<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C. A. L. [Moody]<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n[This marker is between William H. Moody and Willie D. Moody. This is the marker for William H. Moody\u2019s wife, Carrie A. Lloyd]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moody, Maggie Rayle<\/td>\n26 Aug 1857<\/td>\n18 Apr 1890<\/td>\nWife of E. S. Moody<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moody, Infant son<\/td>\n[One date]<\/td>\n1 Apr 1890<\/td>\nInfant son of E. S. & Maggie Moody<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moody, Clarence O.<\/td>\n5 Apr 1886<\/td>\n3 Dec 1886<\/td>\nSon of E. S. & Maggie Moody<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Located between Matilda Place and Sterling Drive in the Cooks Valley area of Sullivan County. A portion of this cemetery is mowed by a neighbor, but the majority is overgrown. The lot is approximately \u00bd acre. There were at least …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"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-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7218,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}