EDWARDS CEMETERY

Edwards Overview 1

Turn left off Hwy. 91 onto Hilltop Road, take a right onto Steep Lane. The cemetery is located at the end of Steep Lane on the left side of the road, in Johnson City, Tennessee, Washington County.

GPS location: 36°19.56N 082°19.03W

NAMEBIRTH DATEDEATH DATECOMMENTS
Edwards, Baby[One date]01 Apr 1940
Smith, Annie Kathleen26 Mar 192703 May 1984
Edwards, Leola V.10 Nov 1918[No date][Same stone as Ova Edwards]
Edwards, Ova23 Mar 191720 Jun 2000[Same stone as Leola Edwards]
Edwards, Chandler Scott13 Sep 194524 Apr 1969
Edwards, Rachel B.[One date]Mar 1972Infant daughter of Levi & Bessie
Edwards, Infant son[One date]10 Jul 194?Infant son of Ova &Leola Edwards
Edwards, J. B. Jun 193030 Aug 1932
Honeycutt, Pearl14 Sep 191215 Jan 1927
Honeycutt, Mary18911937
Edwards, Sinclair18871941
Edwards, Rebecca11 Oct 186602 Jan 1926
Edwards, Levi17 Sep 185813 Jul 1924
Edwards, Joseph H.28 Jan 188518 Jul 1928[Same stone as Marietta Edwards]
Edwards, Marietta26 Nov 188805 Jan 1962[Same stone as Joseph H. Edwards]
Edwards, Arlie16 Jul 191227 Sep 1929
Jenkins, Josephine Edwards15 Jun 191424 Jul 1935Wife of W. P. Jenkins
Edwards, Kenneth N.19241940
Edwards, Henry L.19071974
Edwards, Levi Chandler17 Oct 192311 Oct 2001US Navy World War II
[Same headstone as Bessie L. Edwards]
Edwards, Bessie L.01 Aug 1936[No date][Same headstone as Levi C. Edwards]
Edwards, Canza Gouge29 Jul 189513 Feb 1975[Same stone as Ira Lee Edwards]
Edwards, Ira Lee08 Nov 188915 Mar 1969[Same stone as Canza Edwards]

 

Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web March 2003 by Dawn Peters, Betty Jane Hylton and Donna Cox Briggs 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

From History of Washington County, Tennessee 1988 by Watauga Association of Genealogists, p. 321:
Joseph Henry Edwards Family
Joseph Henry (1885-1928), son of Levi (1858-1924), Church of the Brethren Minister, and Rebecca Shupe Edwards (1866-1926), married 1906 Marietta (188-192) daughter of James Madison (1866-1941) and Anna Bailey Byrd (1868-1945). They moved from Pigeon Roost, North Carolina bringing 7 of their 8 children: Henry Lee, Lulia (1909-1910), Cleo, Arlie, Josephine, Ova, Susie and Levi Chandler. They moved to Telford 1929, (Washington County) with 2 more children: Elizabeth Rebecca and Annie Kathleen.

Marietta, widowed at 40 with 9 children to rear, supported herself and family by farming.

Joseph and Marietta were buried at the Edwards Cemetery, Johnson City.

Henry married Lorena Edwards Story. Cleo married Cecil Shanks. Arlie (1912-1929). Josephine married Park Jenkins. Ova married Leola Virginia Scott. Susie married Aaron Culbertson, Jr. Levi (1923) married Kathaleen Morris. Elizabeth (1925) married Wiley Greene. Annie (1927) married Bill Smith.

Article by Vesta Sue Edwards Zimmerman, 1817 Jackson Rd, Kingsport, TN 37663.