Boones Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
2004
Located at 304 Pickens Bridge Road, Gray, TN [Boones Creek Community]. This church and cemetery was once know as Flourville Baptist Church and Cemetery.
This transcription is dedicated to the late J.R. Hodges, a member of the Cemetery Survey Team of NE Tennessee.
GPS Location: 36°23.73N 082°24.33 W;
Elevation: 1517 ft.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web August 2004 by Donna Briggs, Bob Shell, Chester Willis 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:
Hale, Mark
1850 Census: 249/260 Mark Hale [no age given], Ann 55, Elizabeth 15
1860 Census: 997 Mark Hale, 70.
1870 Census: 59 Mark Hale 81 living with Fuller P. Hale 45.
J. R. Hodges Jr. – GRAY
J.R. Hodges Jr., 62, 263 Flourville Rd., Gray, died Thursday, July 22, 2004, at the Johnson City Medical Center Hospital following a brief illness.
Mr. Hodges was a native of Sullivan County and the son of J.R. Hodges Sr. and the late Opal Green Hodges.
He was a graduate of Mary Hughes High School and East Tennessee State University.
Mr. Hodges retired as a research chemist from Tennessee Eastman in December 1999 after 35 years with the company.
He was a former member of the Metro Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Hodges was a member of Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church, but attended Boones Creek Bible Church.
Survivors, in addition to his father, include his wife, Carolyn Glass Hodges, of the home; two daughters: Jennifer Collins, Telford, and Carrie Hodges, Gray; one granddaughter, Hannah Collins; two sisters: Ann Shipley and Brenda Lynch, both of Gray; two nephews: Lee Jay and Matthew Lynch; one niece, Wendi Shipley; and his father-in-law, Elmer Glass.
The funeral service for Mr. Hodges will be conducted Sunday, July 25, 2004, at 2:30 PM in Boones Creek Bible Church, 1528 Old Gray Station Road, with Pastor Dale Cunningham and Rev. Larry Draper officiating.
Interment will follow in Boones Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers, who are requested to be at the church by 2:15 PM, will be Charles Glass, Gary Glass, Bobby Glass, Kenneth Glass, Mike Glass and Tony Glass. There is no visitation scheduled. Condolences may be made online at www.appalachianfuneralhome.com. Appalachian Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 800 E Watauga Ave., is serving the Hodges family.