Bailey-Cecil Cemetery
2007
Located SE of Mt. Lebanon Presbyterian Church Cemetery on the next wooded ridge across Lebanon Branch, near 496 Taylor Bridge Rd., Jonesborough, TN in the Mayberry Community. The five graves with markers have been concreted over. Six unmarked graves were found and it is possible there are others.
GPS location: 36.199200, -82.502960
Elevation: 1628 ft.
NAME BIRTH DEATH COMMENT
Bailey, G. D. 1828 1894 Shares marker with his wife Malinda Masters
Bailey, Malinda Masters 1829 1908 Shares marker with G.D. Bailey
Cecil, G. R. 1859 1925 Shares marker with his wife Abbie E. Bailey
Cecil, Abbie E. Bailey 1873 1957 Shares marker with G. R. Bailey
Bailey, Mary Nellie 05 Apr 1896 10 Oct 1904 Dau. of C.E & M.E. Bailey. [Broken and flat on the ground]
Updated with additional information by Ruth Robinson, Pamela Robinson and Betty Jane Hylton on 3 September 2007.
Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
DEEDS –
Deed Book 68, Page 596 (11894) – G[arrett] D Bailey to Malinda Bailey – 40 acres. Metes and bounds recorded in this deed carry forward. Quiet on graveyard.
Deed Book 81, Page 340 (1902) – Malinda Bailey to Abbie Bailey Cecil. Also quiet on graveyard.
Deed Book 266, Page 390 (1952) – Abbie Cecil to P[alma] L. Robinson, T.E. Robinson, and Willard Bailey. This deed excepts the graveyard and R.O.W. to it.
Deed Book 296, Page 503 (1956) – Nora Robinson (widow of T.E. Robinson) conveys her share to Palma Robinson. Excepts graveyard.
Deed Book 299, Page 273 and Deed Book 299, Page 275 (1956) – Convey to Palma Robinson. These two deeds convey life estates of Nora Robinson and Robert Francis Duff. R.F. Duff’s mother, Charlotte was daughter of T.E. & Nora Robinson.
Deed Book 332, Page 126 (1960) – Willard & Ada Bailey to Palma Robinson. Their undivided share of the 40 acres. At this point, the entire 40 acres is now in Palma Robinson, with no shares.
Future deeds have not been referenced, however, Ruth May Robinson, Palma’s wife, remained owner of this and substantial other properties until her death. Title to the land is now held by Robinson Farms, Inc.
Technically, the burial ground ownership remains in Abbie Cecil, who is believed to be the last burial in 1957.
Deeds researched and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web March 2017 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2017 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Note: Some information on the web has this cemetery as two different cemeteries — The Bailey Cemetery and the Cecil Cemetery.
History of Washington County, Tennessee, 1988 by the Watauga Association of Genealogists – Upper East Tennessee, p.223:
“…”Yellow Jacket” John [Bailey] donated the land on which the town of Burnsville now stands. His children were: Hiram, Garrett, Jefferson, Morgan, Louisa, Peggy, Elizabeth, Patty and Tempy Ann.
Garrett D. Bailey married Malinda Masters. Their children: Emoline, Anna Eliza, Jacob, Aarnon, Moses, Joseph Warren, Harriet, Garrett, Honora and Abbie.”
U.S. Federal Census, 1850 Yancey County, North Carolina [no district stated]
896/936 Bailey, Garrett D. 21, Malinda 21, Ann E. 5/12.
U.S. Federal Census, 1910 Washington County, Tennessee, 4th District
147/150 Cecil, Grannette R. 51 b. VA, married 8 years; Abbie E. 36 wife b. NC, married 8 years; William C. 76, father, widower, b. VA; Matthew K. 15 son; Estella C. 15 dau.