John Booth Cemetery
2004
Located at 214 B. Chase Rd., Jonesborough, TN, about 300 yards from the road. It is directly behind the barn under a clump of trees. The Booth family homestead was located between the present Jerry Booth house and John Booth’s grave. There were two graves marked by fieldstones, one of them, a small child. There are probably other members of the Booth family buried here, also.
GPS Location: 36°13. 41 N 082° 29.21W Elevation: 1679 ft.
Name Birth date Death date Comments
Booth, Henry Clay 29 Aug 1870 09 Jul 1872 Son of Ebenezer & Martha E. Booth
Booth, John 01 Jan 1788 27 Dec 1864
Booth, Caroline 13 Jul 1824 03 Aug 1884
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 20 February 2004 by Donna Briggs, Dawn Peters and Betty Jane Hylton, 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.
A picture of the grave can be found on p.159, Down On Cherokee by Billy Hugh Campbell, Jr., 2000. The story of John Booth’s murder can be found on pages 245-248.
Submitted by Billy Hugh Campbell, 1820 Sugarbowl Rd., Chuckey, TN 37641.
Marriage records of Washington County, Tennessee
Ebenezer Booth and Martha E. Wright md. 25 Oct 1866 by Barney Cunningham
1850 Census of Washington County
#883-911 BOOTH, John 60 born in PA, Sarah 55 NC, Hannah 35 TN, Henderson 33 teacher, Caroline 27, John 25, Ebenezer 22 teacher, James 19 teacher