{"id":937,"date":"2012-03-29T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T20:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan2\/?p=937"},"modified":"2015-08-19T15:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:29:23","slug":"light-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/light-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Located at the end of Old Moreland Drive in the Long Island section of Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. The cemetery is mowed and well kept. There are at least 5 unmarked graves and 7 graves marked by fieldstones.<\/p>\n

Photographed and transcribed 8 Nov 2002 by R. Cox and Donna Briggs, members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. Additional information submitted by Lisa Gail Salley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Map location: Kingsport Quad<\/p>\n

TNGenWeb Cemetery Database<\/p>\n

\"Light<\/a><\/p>\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\n\n
NAME<\/strong><\/td>\nBIRTH<\/strong><\/td>\nDEATH<\/strong><\/td>\nCOMMENTS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, Vatchel<\/td>\n1763<\/td>\n1850<\/td>\nPVT Virginia Militia, Rev. War. October 25 2003, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Overmountain Men Chapter placed a marker for Vechel Light (SL)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chase, Ruby<\/td>\n7 Oct 1915<\/td>\n27 Jan 1917<\/td>\nDaughter of J. W. & Other Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, Samuel<\/td>\n25 Dec 1856<\/td>\n8 Aug 1909<\/td>\n[Same stone as Ellen Light]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, Ellen<\/td>\n1851<\/td>\n7 Aug 1880<\/td>\n[Same stone as Samuel Light]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fields, Lexie Elgie<\/td>\n8 Feb 1904<\/td>\n30 Sep 1907<\/td>\nDaughter of G. H. & M. E. Fields<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, John Houston<\/td>\n28 Apr 1899<\/td>\n26 Jun 1940<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Myres, Mary<\/td>\n12 Oct 1855<\/td>\n6 Jan 1916<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, Evy May<\/td>\n20 Apr 1881<\/td>\n10 Nov 1881<\/td>\nChildren of James & E. P. Light [Same stone as Luly Light]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, Luly<\/td>\n20 Apr 1881<\/td>\n11 Nov 1882<\/td>\nChildren of James & E. P. Light [Same stone as Evy May Light]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, Ethel M.<\/td>\n6 Feb 1885<\/td>\n18 Aug 1906<\/td>\nDaughter of James & E. L. Light [Same stone as Elmirah Light]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, James<\/td>\n1851<\/td>\n1936<\/td>\n[Same stone as Elizabeth Light]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, Elizabeth<\/td>\n1852<\/td>\n19\u2014<\/td>\n[Same stone as James Light; death date not inscribed]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light, Verna L.<\/td>\n26 Aug 1926<\/td>\n21 Oct 1927<\/td>\nDaughter of J. J. & M. A. Light<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pearce, Elmina M.<\/td>\n[?] Sep1829<\/td>\n18 Jun 1898<\/td>\nWife of Jacob Pearce<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pearce, Thomas<\/td>\n2 Dec 1816<\/td>\n29 Jun 1864<\/td>\nAged 47 yrs 7m 27 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harkleroad, Daniel W.<\/td>\n1881<\/td>\n1934<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pearce, William<\/td>\n17 Mar 1788<\/td>\n23 Jun 1848<\/td>\n[Stone is very difficult to read]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pearce, Elizabeth<\/td>\n29 Dec 1788<\/td>\n17 Nov 1866<\/td>\nAged 77 years. 10mo. & 18 days. ATM Provence, Bristol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roller, B\u2014rilla<\/td>\n[Illegible]<\/td>\n[Illegible]<\/td>\n[Stone broken and difficult to read]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roller, John<\/td>\n29 Jun 1829<\/td>\n20 Feb 1868<\/td>\nAged 44 year. 7ms. 21 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roller, Berilla<\/td>\n19 Jan 1828<\/td>\n23 May 1866<\/td>\nAged 38years.4mo. & 4days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Painter, Elizabeth Roller<\/td>\n29 Mar 1850<\/td>\n22 Mar 1933<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jones, Elizabeth Pierce<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\nWife of I. N. Jones<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pearce, John<\/td>\n21 Apr 1810<\/td>\n1 Aug 1853<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pearce, William<\/td>\nDec 1844?<\/td>\n[Illegible]<\/td>\nSon of William<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roller, Elizabeth<\/td>\nApril [?]<\/td>\nMarch [?]<\/td>\n—ter of Martin & Elizabeth Roller [Stone almost completely illegible]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Roller], Margaretema<\/td>\nJune 2 [?]<\/td>\n[Illegible]<\/td>\nDaughter of Mart__ & Elizabeth__ [Stone is almost completely illegible<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pearce, [Illegible]<\/td>\n[?8] Feb [1840]<\/td>\n[Illegible<\/td>\nSon of T. & E.M. Pearce [Stone is mostly illegible]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Submitters:<\/p>\n

SL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sherry Light<\/p>\n

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NOTE<\/strong>: Don Speer<\/a>, a Pierce (Pearce) descendant, makes a strong case as to the identity of the unmarked stones. \u201cI placed the individuals in the Light Cemetery in their respective family trees. I am reasonable certain that the two unlabeled stones at the southeast corner of the Light Cemetery are those of Joshua Pierce and his wife Deborah Dove. John Pierce (b.1810; d.1853) was the youngest son of Joshua and Deborah; William, husband of Elizabeth [Smith] (b. 1788) was their oldest son; a middle son, Joshua, Jr., moved to Illinois where he was killed in a fight in 1835.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Located at the end of Old Moreland Drive in the Long Island section of Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. The cemetery is mowed and well kept. There are at least 5 unmarked graves and 7 graves marked 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-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}