Located in the field behind 727 Mayberry Road in Washington County. The cemetery is very overgrown. There were eight or nine graves marked by fieldstones. Only footstones remained for 3 graves.
Berry-Hayes Cemetery
2004
GPS Location: 36.12.56N 082.29.37W Elevation: 1712 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Ruff, Matilda M. 15 Jun 1865 02 May 1905 Wife of J. C. Ruff
Haynes, John 15 Oct 1833 07 Jan 1889
Be[rry], Margaret 26 Jan 1900 [Stone is broken and in small pieces]
Berry, Corp’l S. B. 11 May 1841 16 Jul 1902 Co. A. 3rd NC Mtd. Inf.
She[rfy], Fannie No date [2] Dec 1892 Wife of Samuel Sh[erfy]
Aged [82] Years
[Stone is broken]
Berry, Infant Daughter 25 Aug 1888 31 Aug 1888 Infant daughter of Mr. & Mrs. D. M. Berry
Sherfy, Samuel [13 Jan] [12 Mar 189-] [Stone is broken and parts missing]
JB [Only one date] 11 Apr 1905 [Footstone]
STB [Only one date] 12 Apr 1905 [Footstone]
HB [Only one date] 13 Apr 1905 [Footstone]
Berry, John 08 Oct 1797 07 May 1886
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 20 February 2004 by Donna Briggs, Betty Jane Hylton and Dawn Peters members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Additional information:
*Note– in the Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, this cemetery is known as the Berry Cemetery; but older residents of the community, call it the Haynes Cemetery.
Washington County Marriage Records, by Goldene Burgner:
John Haynes and Emma Berry married 6 Dec 1868 by J. M. Becket, M.G.
Samuel Sherfy and Fanny Rose married 18 August 1836 by Jacob Hartsell, J.P.