Brumit/Brumit Cemetery
2003
Located at 2648 Cherokee Road, Johnson City, TN. It is overgrown, so it was hard to determine how many graves are present but there was only one readable stone.
GPS Location: 36.16.24N 082.23.36W Elevation: 1587 ft.
Brummit, Elizabeth; ? – died 9-18-1845 spouse D. Brummit
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 15 September 1990 by Elaine Scott Cantrell a member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
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According to the WCCL: “This cemetery was established about the time of the Civil War by Daniel Brummit. There are 4 graves. Daniel Brummit and his wife are buried there.”
[Note: Daniel Brummit was to son of David Brummit (1790-1834) and Anna N. Moreland Brummit (1821-1880) and the grandson of Samuel & Margaret Ann Brummit who came to Washington County, TN in 1790.]
[Note: A Letter to the Editor of WAGS BULLETIN from Edith Brumit Twilling, 1480 South Salt Pond, Marshall, MO 65430.
My sisters and I were researching in Washington County, Tennessee a few years ago and secured a map of the cemeteries in the county along with locations and a listing of legible headstones charted by the WPA in the 1930s.
The Brummit Cemetery, No. 51, lists Daniel Brummit as being buried with his wife Elizabeth in this family cemetery located on the family farm. This is a logical assumption, however, this Daniel lived for many more years than this cemetery was in use and moved to Saline County, MO where he died in 1878.
Elizabeth was Daniel Brumit’s first wife whom he married in 1844. She died in 1845 and in 1846, he married Mary Ann Peoples, who died in 1848 and is buried in the Elliott Cemetery with her Peoples relatives. In 1849, Daniel Brumit married Louisa McAmis Stonecypher (previously married to Jacob Stonecypher) in Greene County, Tennessee. We do not know what became of this marriage or Jacob, but they had a son, Thomas A. Stonecypher, who was reared by Daniel and Louisa Brumit. We do not know what happened to Thomas after he was released from the Confederate Army in North Carolina in 1865.
Daniel and Louisa Brumit sold the family farm in Washington County, TN and moved to Saline County, MO in 1871, along with their 3 daughters and 1 son, Jacob Brumit. Thomas Stonecypher did not come to Missouri with them. Daniel and Louisa lived out their lives on the farm they purchased in Saline County, MO and are buried side by side in the Bethel Cemetery, located beside the Bethel Baptist Church in rural Saline Co., located 7 miles north of Slater, MO on Route C.
The “D. Brummit” listed in the directory is probably Daniel’s father, David Brumit, who died in the early 1830s.
Of interest to us, and perhaps someone else, Daniel did marry a fourth time, Louisa died in 1873. In 1877, Daniel returned to Washington County, TN and married Elizabeth Scott, the widow of Absolum Scott who owned a neighboring farm to the Brumit’s there. Daniel died in 1878 and Elizabeth returned to Washington County to make her home with her stepdaughter, Nancy Scott Brumit, who incidentally was the widow of Daniel Brumit’s youngest brother, Philip Brumit. Elizabeth, Nancy and Philip Brumit are buried at Speedwell Cemetery in Washington County.
We felt this error should be corrected regarding our grandparents, as it certainly would be misleading to researchers.
Signed – Edith Brumit Twilling