Beals Cemetery
2004
Turn off Hwy. 81/107 onto Haines Rd., Embreeville, TN. At the fork, keep right. Haines Rd. dead ends at the cemetery. This cemetery is fenced and clean. There are many field stones and older markers that can not be read. An older residents of the community, stated that it use to be called Bales Cemetery.
GPS Location: 36.10.11N 082.26.38W Elevation: 1840 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Banner, Adac 24 Jan 1917 28 Feb 1997
Banner, Floyd J. 02 Mar 1915 22 Feb 1989
Banner, Michael L. 28 Oct 1949 [no date] [Shares marker with Ozella D. Banner]
Banner, Ozella D. 07 Jul 1952 14 Nov 1998 [Shares marker with Michael L. Banner]
Barrix, Harold E. 1937 1994
Beals, Callie D. 1909 1911
Beals, Carse/Carson A. 17 Jun 1897 15 Sep 1976
Beals, Elizabeth J. 13 Jan 1869 08 Mar 1869 Daughter of Joseph & Nancy D. Beals.
Beals, Emma Donie 08 Apr 1885 09 May 1903 Daughter of J.M. & N.D. Beals.
Beals, Isabella 08 Jan 1866 17 Jan 1866 Daughter of Joseph & Nancy D. Beals.
Beals, J. Grisham 1883 1941 [Shares marker with Novella J. Beals.]
Beals, John M.N. 12 May 1870 10 Jul 1870 Son of Joseph & Nancy D. Beals.
Beals, Jos M. 24 Aug 1835 20 Apr 1904
Beals, Marion L. 1926 [only one date] Infant
Beals, Mary Lea 1912 [only one date] Infant
Beals, Novella J. 1893 1980 [Shares marker with J. Grisham Beals.]
Beals, Omy D. 07 Aug 1863 26 Apr 1873 Daughter of Joseph M. & Nancy D. Beals
Beals, Pansy L. 1918/1919 1955 [Funeral home marker, Dillow/Taylor]
[Homemade marker gives birth date as 1918]
Beals, Virginia Ellen 29 May 1933 29 Nov 1938
Beals, Walter Asbury 04 Nov 1913 24 Apr 1967 ARKANSAS PFC US ARMY WW II
Berry, Hester Ann Tucker 14 Jun 1893 11 Dec 1963
Coggins, Clyde 1912 1983 [Funeral home marker, Dillow/Taylor]
Coggins, Fronia [no date] 17 Sep 1954 Age 69 yrs. [Funeral home marker]
Coggins, Fannie 1920 13 Jun 19051991 [Funeral home marker, Dillow/Taylor]
Garland, Elizabeth 30 Sep 1895 23 Oct 1956 [Shares marker with Walter Arvil Garland]
Garland, Ethel 10 Sep 1913 16 Nov 1936
Garland, Walter Arvil 19 Oct 1887 11 Jan 1970 [Shares marker with Elizabeth Garland.]
Hamitt, Stanley 11 Oct 1935 07 Aug 1960
Hammit, Rex 1908 1983 [Erwin Memorial FHM]
Hammitt, Albert 1915 1986 [Erwin Memorial FHM]
Hammitt, Aroura 1906 1986 [Erwin Memorial FHM]
Hammitt, James E. [no date] 1972 7 Mo.
[Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Hammitt, John W. 07 May 1919 22 Dec 1960 TENNESSEE CPL 212 ARMD FLD ARTY BN WORLD WAR II
Hammitt, Mickey J 1895 1967
Hicks, Cecil N. 19 Oct 1913 29 Jun 1924
Hicks, Frank M. 10 Jan 1911 22 Dec 1911
Hicks, Noah A. 17 Sep 1880 07 May 1936 [Shares marker with Sallie S. Hicks]
Hicks, Paul W. 21 Aug 1912 21 Aug 1912
Hicks, Sallie S. 02 Feb 1884 22 Aug 1948 [Shares marker with Noah A. Hicks.]
Hicks, Sylvester 27 Mar 1928 21 Nov 1929
Hopkins, Walter L. 01 Jan 1890 27 Feb 1938
Ledford, [no date] [no date] [2 graves]
Ledford, Billy Joe 17 Aug 1960 11 Apr 1991
Ledford, William R. 1920 2003 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Lockner, John H. 28 Feb 1913 30 Mar 1944 TENNESSEE PVT INFANTRY WW II
Lockner, Joseph P. 22 Feb 1867 26 Jun 1951
Lockner, Mary Tucker 07 Mar 1872 21 Jan 1931
May, Ambrose C. 08 Apr 1872 24 Jan 1954 CO K, 3 TENN INF, SP AM WAR
May, Carrie Yates 15 Jul 1878 12 Aug 1957
Poore, John 1872 1931 [Shares marker with Nancy Poore.]
Poore, Nancy 1872 1950 [Shares marker with John Poore.]
Rowe, Claude V. 11 Sep 1939 30 Mar 1971
Rowe, Lillie Y. 29 Oct 1900 12 Feb 1990
Rowe, Paul L. 1904 1974
Saults, Creola Valentine 08 Dec 1916 09 Mar 1979 [Shares marker with Homer L. Valentine]
Smith, James Issiac [no date] 1958 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Story, Elsie Mae 31 Oct 1931 01 Nov 1931
Story, Mary Cleta 10 Oct 1909 12 Feb 1938
Story, Verna H. M. E. 16 Sep 1912 28 Apr 1972 [Dillow-Taylor FHMand a hand made marker]
Tompkins, Mary 1835 1922
Tucker, Cora Lee Orten 25 Sep 1915 [no date] [Shares marker with Eli Halen Tucker]
Tucker, Eli Halen 05 Sep 1908 02 Oct 1961 [Shares marker with Cora Lee Orten Tucker]
Tucker, Philip 1955
Tucker, Z.F. Bud 1865 10 Oct 1935
Valentine, Elizabeth C. 1874 [only one date]
Valentine, Homer L. 28 Oct 1915 18 Oct 1963 [Shares marker with Creola Valentine Saults]
Valentine, Jessie 11 Jan 1914 His wife [missing]
Valentine, Mal 1927 1948
Valentine, Malinda E. 1982 1959
Whilhite, Phillip [no date] [no date] USD 1812 Marker
White, Loreta [no date] [no date] [Marker is very hard to read]
Whitehorn, George S. 1903 1985 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Whitehorne, Charles L. 1909 1990 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Whitehorn, Squre [one date] 31 May 1905 [Hand made stone]
Woodfin, Cora L. 11 Jan 1897 22 Apr 1971 [Shares marker with James L. Woodfin.]
Woodfin, James L 09 Mar 1897 08 Aug 1978 [Shares marker with Cora L. Woodfin]
Woodfin, Oscar N. 04 Jun 1904 05 Dec 1970
Woodfin, Pansy 1915 1995 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Yates, E. Clyde 06 Dec 1906 05 Mar 1972
Yates, Earnest Arthur 24 Feb 1919 01 Oct 1982 S2 US NAVY World War II
Yates, Emory E. 23 Jan 1915 10 Mar 1988
Yates, Fannie J. 08 Feb 1918 [no date]
Yates, Pauline 1921 1987
Young, Millie [no dates] [no dates]
Transcribed, photographed and contributed for use on the TNGenWeb-Washington County Page and in the USGenWeb Archives March 4, 2004 by Donna Briggs, Dawn Peters, Bob Shell, Bud Cox & Betty Jane Hylton.
Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
According to the Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, there are two graves found in the 1970s but not in 2004:
Tucker, Philip, 1955
Valentine, Jessie, 11 Jan 1914, wife of Homer L. Valentine.
Washington County Cemetery List [about 1930]: The first grave marked is that of John Tucker, born 1818, died 1864. There are approximately 250 graves; there are 13 inscriptions and 25 graves marked with field stones. Philip Wilhite and Jonathan Tucker, soldiers of the War of 1812 are buried here.
An older resident of the community states that the following are in unmarked graves:
Beals, Lollie
Beals, Tommy
Garland, Minnie
Whitehorn, Leslie