Harris (Benjamin) Cemetery
2011
Located behind 168 Hall Rd., Jonesborough, TN 37659.
GPS location: 36.15.756 N 082.29.495 W; Elevation: 11811 ft.
Harris, Benjamin, Maryland, MD MIL. REV. WAR, September 26, 1820
There is events of approximately eight more graves.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 25 May 2011 by Fred and Lois Wetzel.
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: According to the will of son, John C. Harris, who is buried at Uriel Cemetery: From Washington County Tennessee Wills 1777-1872 by Goldene Burgner, p.40: Father Ragan’s grave to be finished and my father’s and mother’s grave on the old place to be walled as I have directed at the expense of my estate.
The Washington County Check List: On Ellis Butler farm. This cemetery is in the garden just back of the house. Benjamin Harris was a Revolutionary Soldier, and his grave is being marked by the John Sevier Chapter, NSDAR on 19 October 1956. Benjamin was born 1742, died 1820; his wife, Jane Crampton Harris, born 1746, died 1828 is buried in this plot, and also a sister of hers; there are also slaves buried here. Mr. Butler who lives on the place, and whose family has owned the farm more than 80 years, says there are suppose to be 11 graves.