Dry Creek Cemetery
March 2008
This cemetery is also known as Morning Star Cemetery.
Turn beside Dry Creek Freewill Baptist Church, Dry Creek Rd. Johnson City, Tennessee onto Buchannan Road. The road bears to the left, take the gravel lane to the right behind a house. The cemetery is at the of the gravel lane. There are many unmarked graves.
GPS location: 36° 13.050 N 082°24.795 W; Elevation: 1825 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE ROW/ GRV COMMENTS
Butler, Delia V. 05 Jul 1919 19 Feb 1996 01/01 [Shares marker with John M. Butler]
Butler, John M. 14 May 1917 11 Mar 1993 01/02 U.S. Navy WW II [Shares marker with Delia V. Butler]
Butler, Willard W. 17 Mar 1915 04 Nov 1987 01/03 Willard Weatherby Butler, U.S. Navy WW II [Shares marker with Emma A. Butler]
Butler, Emma A. 02 Oct 1919 18 Jul 2006 01/04 Married 1-16-39[Shares marker with Willard W. Butler]
Butler, George H. 13 Aug 1909 28 Nov 1985 01/05 [Shares marker with Bertha R. Butler]
Butler, Bertha R. 12 Jul 1914 26 Feb 2005 01/06 [Shares marker with George H. Butler]
Shell, Robert Lee 21 Oct 1938 05 Mar 1997 01/07 U.S. Army [Shares marker with Patricia Shell]
Shell, Patricia 10 Jan 1941 [No date] 01/08 [Shares marker with Robert Lee Shell]
Peters, William Ernest Jan Aug 01/09 [No year on marker]
Peters, Earl 1945 1989 01/10 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Peters, Willard Lee 11 Dec 1946 16 Nov 1983 01/11
Peters, Sherman L. 1940 1999 01/12 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Peters, William H. 24 Oct 1909 02 Mar 1980 01/13 PFC US Army WW II [Shares marker with Thelma E. Peters]
Peters, Thelma E. 21 Apr 1914 [No date] 01/14 [Shares marker with William H. Peters]
Peters, Lola Mae 1908 2006 01/15 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Peters, Jesse J. 1938 2007 01/16 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Lewis, Norma J.P. 1947 2001 01/17 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Peters, Homer F. 03 Oct 1903 15 Jul 1994 01/18 [Shares marker with Blanche V. Peters]
Peters, Blanche V. 22 Jul 1904 19 Jul 1969 01/19 [Shares marker with Homer F. Peters]
Gilley, Gary W., Jr. [No date] 1969 01/20 [FHM]
Story, Hugh 1918 1989 01/21 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Story, Mary Lee 1952 1998 01/22 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Story, Lizzie Vance 1885 1976 02/01
Story, George 01 Feb 1901 18 Aug 1959 02/02 Tennessee PVT BTRY B 51 Artillery CAC WW I
Hilton, Roy B. 21 May 1904 26 Jan 1975 02/03 [Son of William "Clint" Helton and Olga Banner.]
Helton, Nora [No date] 1960 02/04 [FHM]
Bales, James Oscar 20 Sep 1896 23 Apr 1963 02/05 PVT US Army WW I
Peters, Willard Lee 1946 1985 02/06
Peters, Mary Lee 1952 1997 02/07 [FHM]
Rodifer, Cleve 21 Apr 1943 17 Jun 1981 03/01
Howell, Martin 03 Oct 1927 01 Oct 1928 03/02
Hilton, Roy B. 1927 1927 03/03
Hylton, J. 1867 1952 03/04
Vance, William E. 07 May 1882 27 Aug 1957 03/05
Whitson, Rosa Mae 06 Jun 1930 18 Oct 1957 03/06
Vance, Mary A. 03 Feb 1896 10 Aug 1975 03/07
Glass, Michael Richard 1971 1971 03/08 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Glass, [?] [No date] 1956 03/09 [FHM, first name missing]
Vance, Mammie H. 06 Jun 1914 16 Jul 1965 03/10
Rodifer, David 26 Feb 1961 22 Dec 1975 04/01
Unknown [No date] [No date] 04/02 [Fieldstone, no engraving]
Hylton, Alfred 18 Aug 1899 06 Jun 1926 04/03 Son of J.T. & Renta Hylton
Hylton, R. 1881 1945 04/04
Unknown [No date] [No date] 04/05 [Unmarked]
Peters, Sylvia Story 10 Apr 1923 29 Mar 1970 04/06
Standifer, Geraldine S[Story] Mrs. 20 May 1937 26 Mar 1972 04/07
Peters, Thomas J. 24 Jun 1919 17 Oct 1988 04/08
NOTE: The rest of the graves are not in row/grave order in the cemetery.
Butler, Juanita 10 Jan 1943 23 Mar 1943 [FHM]
Edwards, Orville E. 1932 1969 [Erwin Memorial FHM]
Edwards, Ruby Peters 1932 1971 [FHM]
Helton, Charles A[lbert] [No date] 29 Sep 1918 Tenn. Pvt. 117 30 Div [Son of Isaac Helton.]
Poore, [William Sam] 1906 1972 [FHM]
Poore, Bob 1846 1932 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Poore, Henry 19 Oct 1924 15 Mar 1945 Tenn. Sgt. 143 Inf. WW II
Poore, Lottie 02 May 1879 27 Aug 1919 Wife of Jim Poore.
Poore, Susie Starnes 1854 1949 [Dillow-Taylor FHM]
Rodefer, Floyd [No date] 1931 [FHM]
Rodefor, J[ames].K. 1865 1940 [FHM]
Rodifer, David W. 26 Feb 1961 22 Dec 1975
Rodifer, Ike 1911 1937
Rodifer, James Isaac 1916 1936
Storey, Thomas 22 Mar 1864 19 Mar 1915
Story, J[ohn].W. 20 Nov 1876 09 Oct 1928 [Shares marker with Nancy Story]
Story, Martha F. 22 Jul 1871 29 Jan 1951
Story, Nancy 21 Feb 1865 [3 Nov] [Shares marker with J.W. Story]
Unknown [No date] [No date] [FHM almost unreadable – may be James M. Butler]
Unknown [No date] [No date] [FHM unreadable]
Unknown [No date] [No date] [Fieldstone]
Van[ce], Eva Story 1879 1966 [FHM]
Vance, Bonnie P. 23 Dec 1920 27 Jan 1941
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 13 March 2008 by Betty Jane Hylton, Donna Cox Briggs and Bob Shell 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 W. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, Vol. II, pages 128-129 with permission from Loraine Bennett Rae.
The following were found in 1977 but not in 2008:
Edwards, Reta Faye, 1970
Peters, Nora, 1883-1950
Poore, Mary G., 1889-1968
Poore, John B., 1913-1941
Poore, Jim, 1883-1951
Rodifer, James W., 10 Oct 1954 – 10 Jan 1955
St. John, Charlie D., 1915-296?
Also the following are buried here:
Butler, Mary Francis, 19 Oct 1874 – 29 Apr 1938, wife of J.M. Butler; parents A.G. Wiathely & Fannie Yorese of Ohio .
Helton, Alice, 14 Sep 1869 – 1 Dec 1934, parents, Robert Helton and Sarah Ann Haynes
Helton, Sarah Elizabeth, 13 Mar 1860 – 18 May 1935; husband, John P. Hilton; parents, John E. Cooper and Pollie Robertson.
Hylton, John (b. NC), 18 Feb 1862 – 14 Mar 1938, wife, Sarah Hylton; parents, Samuel Hylton and Ciller Honeycutt.
From Washington County, Tennessee Death Record Abstracts 1908-1916 by Eddie M. Nikazy:
Helton, John Howard, pts. William Carson Helton & Bessie Marie Starnes, d. 1 Apr 1916
Miller, Martha Ellen, pts. Munro Miller & Becky McCurry, d. 19 Jul 1915
Peters, Sam R., pts. John W. Peters & Nora Mitchell, d. 13 May 1915
Poore, Danl, pts. James Poore & Lottie Wilson, d. 20 Apr 1915
Story, Brook, pts. Thomas A. Story & Lizzie Vance, d 4 May 1914
Story, Frank, pts. Thomas A. Story & Lizze Vanc d, 5 May 1914
Vance, William, pts. George Vance & Margaret McNabb
From Tennessee Certificates of Death:
Hilton, Emma Jean b. 21 Mar 1932, d. 26 Jul 1945. Parents: S.S. Hilton b. North Carolina and Hazel I. Septon b. Ohio. Certificate #17679.