Barnes-Rowe Cemetery
2015
Located at the end of the parking lot for Abrasive Technology Manufacturing, Inc. 168 Roweland Dr., Johnson City, TN. The back of the old Barnes Elementary School building can be seen from the cemetery. The cemetery has been recently cleaned.
Death certificates show that his cemetery was also known by Watson, Sproul, and Leonard.
GPS Location: 36.21.09N 082.18.65W Elevation: 1546 ft.
There appears to be at least a dozen more unmarked graves and four that are marked with rocks.
Found in 1977 but not in 2004:
Rowe, Hugh Thomas, 21 Jun 1899 – 12 Nov 1936
DEEDS –
Deed Book 90, Page 45 (1906 and 251 acres) the following was defined –
Jacob Leonard died May 14, 1880 (his marker shows that, and birth of April 23, 1832)
Jacob was married to Lydia A. (nee Range – other source), who later married later, Hugh Sproles (other source).
Jacob and Lydia had two daughters, Cordie (married John Washington Watson) and Dora B (married John E. Rowe).
Dora and John Rowe had three children, Stella May, Hugh Thomas, and Henry George, who were all minors in 1906
Jacob Leonard would have been the patriarch – plus first known burial – May 14, 1880 – little Jacob JSM died 6 days later.
The farm was partitioned to Jacob’s two daughters families in DB90-45.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 7 May 2004 by Donna Briggs, Bob Shell, Elaine Cantrell & Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Researched and updated by Gordon M. Edwards, 2015.
Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.