BARNES-ROWE CEMETERY

Barnes-Rowe Cemetery 2015

Barnes-Rowe Cemetery
2015

Located at the end of the parking lot for Abrasive Technology Manufacturing, Inc. 168 Roweland Dr., Johnson City, TN. The back of the old Barnes Elementary School building can be seen from the cemetery. The cemetery has been recently cleaned.

Death certificates show that his cemetery was also known by Watson, Sproul, and Leonard.

 

GPS Location: 36.21.09N 082.18.65W Elevation: 1546 ft.

NAMEBIRTH DATEDEATH DATECOMMENTS
Barnes, Robert Bunch18731929
Barnes, Hazel21 Nov 190824 Sep 1912Dau. of W.M. & Lucy Barnes
Humphrey, Mattie L. Stepp27 Nov 187625 Sep 1904Wife of Chas. Humphrey
Carrier, Susan Elizabeth Stepp24 Jan 187830 Jun 1898Wife of O.R. Carrier. [Dau. of Jno. W. and A.L. Stepp]
Brown, Mary Shell20 Nov 187322 Dec 1946Dau. of William and Eliza Stepp
Stepp, John William26 Mar 185104 Mar 1901
Deakins, Cora V.03 Jun 188607 Sep 1908Wife of Wm. J. Deakins
Culbert, Eliza Stepp16 Dec 185428 Aug 1928Mother
Arnold, Mrs. D.M. 02 Dec 189024 Feb 1924Mother
Barnes, Lieuttia Saylor18811930Mother
Leonard, Jacob J.S.M.21 Jun 187920 May 1880
Haun, Mary Barnes27 Dec 186031 Jul 1923
Barnes, S.B.24 Sep 186715 Nov 1921Age 54 Y 1 M 22 D
Sutphin, Felica Hull29 Aug 184904 Jan 1907Wife of Wm. C. Sutphin
Herrell, Waites18551918Two small marble slabs with a more recent funeral home marker.
Clark, Ella May18921896
Clark, Wilbur T.18951896
Sproles, Lydia A. Range Leonard18401904
Leonard, Jacob23 Apr 183215 May 1880
Gouge, Lottie
Leonard, James A.01 Nov 187528 Jul 1876
Rowe, Dora Leonard
Rowe, Clyde
Rowe, Dora May
Watson, Cordie A.18721916
Watson, John W.08 Oct 1925
Watson, Gladys17 Nov 192221 Nov 1922
Watson, John [Washington]06 Sep 186611 Jul 1937

There appears to be at least a dozen more unmarked graves and four that are marked with rocks.

Found in 1977 but not in 2004:

Rowe, Hugh Thomas, 21 Jun 1899 – 12 Nov 1936

DEEDS –

Deed Book 90, Page 45 (1906 and 251 acres) the following was defined –
Jacob Leonard died May 14, 1880 (his marker shows that, and birth of April 23, 1832)
Jacob was married to Lydia A. (nee Range – other source), who later married later, Hugh Sproles (other source).
Jacob and Lydia had two daughters, Cordie (married John Washington Watson) and Dora B (married John E. Rowe).
Dora and John Rowe had three children, Stella May, Hugh Thomas, and Henry George, who were all minors in 1906
Jacob Leonard would have been the patriarch – plus first known burial – May 14, 1880 – little Jacob JSM died 6 days later.
The farm was partitioned to Jacob’s two daughters families in DB90-45.

Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 7 May 2004 by Donna Briggs, Bob Shell, Elaine Cantrell & Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.

Researched and updated by Gordon M. Edwards, 2015.

Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.

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