Phillips-Register Cemetery
2001
Located in a wooded lot beside 520 Butcher Town Rd. Fall Branch, TN. Two markers are leaning against a tree. The property is posted with a no transpassing sign.
GPS Location: 36°34.899N 82°63.182W
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 2001 by Betty Jane Hylton member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2013 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions V. 3 by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, used with permission from Lorraine Bennett Rae: This cemetery has had perhaps as many as 75 burials, however, only two legible stones were found in 1960.
Britton Phillips, Aug 15, 1808 – Dec 25, 1867 (m. Elizabeth Minerva Bowman, 4/11/1836)
Margaret Phillips, Oct 4, 1817 – July 1, 1885.
Additional notes from Ray Phillips, tnmtnman@hotmail.com:
Britton Phillips was the son of Dyer Phillips and grandson of Revolutionary War Captain George Phillips of Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg Co. VA. Margaret Cohen, who is buried in this cemetery was the second wife of Britton Phillips. Britton’s first wife was Elizabeth Minerva Bowman.