LOVE CEMETERY

This cemetery was located on the grounds of the Johnson City Medical Center, 400 State of Franklin Rd., Johnson City, TN. The graves were moved November 20, 1992 by Appalachian Funeral Home to Roselawn Memory Gardens, Erwin Highway, Johnson City, TN. The following names are from the records of Roselawn Memory Gardens:

Virginia Garland

Baby Garland

Charles E. Love, b. 1871, d. 1942

Alf Love, b. (?), d. 1955

John Little

3 unknown

Additional Information:

Johnson City Press, November 20, 1992, p.3:

Remains in Old Graveyard Excavated to be Reinterred by John Newland.

Human remains that lay abandoned for decades are being moved from a forgotten graveyard on Johnson City Medical Center Hospital Property.

Workers from Appalachian-Hartman Funeral Home and a local construction company on Thursday began excavating the cemetery, where there hasn’t been a burial in more than 40 years.

When all the remains are recovered, they will be reinterred at Roselawn Memory Gardens.

“We expect to find 12 to 15 people,” said Randy Cook the hospital’s associate administrator of support services.

“But all the information we have is based on hearsay. There’s no documentation. It’s not written down who all is buried there and where.”

The only body tentatively identified is that of Charles E. Love, whose grave marker was found intact. According to the marker, Love lived from 1871 to 1942.

After talking to an elderly woman whose house is next to the cemetery, hospital officials have come to the conclusion other family names could be found at the site, but the markers are no longer present.

“There is a Garland family whose people are buried here, and maybe a couple of others,” said Chuck Bowman, owner of Appalachian-Hartman and supervisor of the dig.

[A picture of the operation was also included with the article.]

Johnson City Press, 3 January 2022, reprint of an article in the Chattanooga Daily Times, 3 January 1897 with the dateline of Johnson CIty:  The remains of Nat R. Campbell, who was mysteriously killed or murdered at Kenova, W. Va., last Friday reached the City Saturday night… The remains were buried in the Love Cemetery at 12 o’clock on Monday.

Note:  Nat R. Campbell is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Johnson City, Tennessee.

Tennessee Death Records, Ancestry.com

Virginia Louise Garland, b. 9 Aug 1925, d. 15 Aug 1925. Parents: E.N. Garland & Myrtle Graybeal . TN Death Record 1925/454.

Charles E. Love b. 27 Aug 1871, d. 25 Mar 1942. Parents: Joseph B. Love and Sarah L. Love. TN Death Record 1942/C937.

Robert Young, Sr. Patriot and Pioneer by Dessie Little Simmons and Fred Simmons, c1994, pp. 34-35:

Joseph and Esther Crockett Young’s daughter, Mary “Polly” Young (1793-1830) m. Samuel Bell Love. Their son, Robert Crockett Love (1808-1879) m. Elizabeth Wilkison. *Their second daughter Sarah L. Love b. c1843 m. Bert Love (no relationship) and had 2 sons: Alfred “Alf” Love, unmarried and Elbert “Ebb” Love, unmarried.

*This family was buried in the Love Cemetery near Veterans Administration.

1880 Census, Washington County, Tennessee, by Sistler, c1994, p. 57:

Love, Apha 46, Marion 23, Lafayette 21, Ellen 17, Jane 11, Emana 15, Charles 9 (511)

Love, Elizabeth 2, Mary 39, William J. 30, Dora 26, _____ 8/12 (f) (506)

Love, J.B. 57 (m), Sarah L. 36, R.E. Lee 13, E. El. 8 (m), A.A. 6 (m), O.E. 4 (m), Alfred 4 (522)

Washington County, Tennessee Death Record Abstracts, 1908-1916, by Eddie M. Nikazy, c1994 p.103:

*Hesikiah Little, born: 12 May 1845, married, parents: John Little and Ruth Boreing, death cause: “heart disease, dropsy,” informant: Mrs. Little (Johnson City), buried: Loves Cemetery, died: 13 Apr 1914, record (1914): #142.

* There has been a small private cemetery across the Old Jonesborough-Johnson City highway from the Onks Cemetery. Dessie Simmons has an eyewitness account of the funeral of one person buried there. Other burials are unknown.

Hezekiah Little, 1847 – April 13, 1915, youngest son of John & Ruth Boring Little. His wife, Elizabeth Williams, 1860-Aug 9, 1919 is thought to be buried here also.

 

Research and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web July 2001 by Betty Jane Hylton a member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. Speical thanks to Ric LaRue of Sherrod Library, ETSU for his help in researching.

Research and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web July 2001 by Betty Jane Hylton a member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. Speical thanks to Ric LaRue of Sherrod Library, ETSU for his help in researching.

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