Burleson (Landon) Cemetery
2007
Located at 3427 McKinley Road, Johnson City, TN. The markers are in the front yard near the road between a large tree and a large bush.
GPS location: 36.18.30N 082.25.04W; Elevation: 1758 ft.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 11 January 2007 by Elaine Cantrell 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.
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, V. 1, page 164:
NOTE: The following information was obtained from Kate Burleson Morley, dau. of the above Margaret and Landon Burleson: Margaret B. was a Human from Clinton, Tenn. She was 13 and he was 25 when they married. Her sister, Rosa Nellie Human Riess, March 31, 1875 – 1950, is buried in an unmarked grave. Mr. Riess is buried in Birmingham, Ala. There are also four children buried in unmarked graves: Russell Powell, June 24, 1924 – Aug. 26, 1924, son of Mrs. Morley and three Arwood children of Mrs. Morley’s sister who died in Long Beach, Calif. Ca 1959/60.