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.
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