Located in the field, on a hill behind 531 A. A. Deakins Road in the Sulpher Springs area of Washington County. The cemetery is very overgrown and has not been cleared in many years. There were approximately 20 graves marked by only fieldstones and many unmarked graves.
GPS Location: 36.23.00N 082.32.49W Elevation: 1726 ft.
Name Birth date Death date Comments
Carey, Sarah A. 23 Jul 1860 18 Sep 1863
Bacon, Charles 15 May 1796 11 Feb 1876
Bacon, Elizabeth October --, 1809 22 Feb 1881 “Wife of Charles Bacon
Ferguson, Nancy J. 07 Sep 1844 06 Oct 1880 “Wife of T. P. Ferguson”
Carey, Elijah 18 Sep 1832 06 Sep 1908
Ferguson, Charley R. 18 Oct 1874 02 Sep 1875 “Son of T. P. & M. J. Ferguson”
Carey, Tymader Bacon 26 Mar 1834 24 Jan 1913 “Wife of Elijah Carey”
Bacon, Virgie A. 01 Oct 1901 18 Nov 1902 “Dau. of T.M. & L. J. Bacon”
Whitlock, Annis Hicks 1848 1933 “Wife of James A.”
Whitlock, James A. 1846 1907 “Cpl. Co. B 8th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry”
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 13 August 2003 by Donna Briggs, Chester Willis, 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.
Additional information:
Found in 1960 according to Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, V. III, p. 33 (used with permission from Loraine B. Rae) but not found in 2003:
Nora E., dau. of P. & J. Bacon, 4 Dec 1864 – 11 July 1884
E. B. Bacon, 2 Jun 1864 – 12 Dec 1933