Located beside of Fairview Methodist Church Bld., State Hwy. 81 N, Jonesborough, TN.
The older portion of this section is the old Seceder Cemetery. William B. Strain is said to be buried in the “Seceder Cemetery.” A large monument in the center of about 150 to 200 unmarked graves reads, “In Memory of Unknown.”
GPS location: 36° 18.76N 082° 31.93W Elevation: 1574 ft.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 2006 by Helen Holtsinger, Dawn Peters, Jan Clark, Elaine Cantrell, Donna Cox Briggs and Betty Jane Hyton, 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.
Genealogical information enclosed in brackets was found in the following sources:
Bennett, Charles M., and Watauga Association of Genealogists . Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions. 1st ed. : Loraine Bennett Rae, 1979; with permission from Loraine B. Rae.
Burgner, Goldene Fillers. Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.
Watauga Association of Genealogists Northeast Tennessee. Washington County, Tennessee Marriage Records, 1871-1899. 1st ed. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2004.
Washington County, Tennessee Death Record Abstracts 1908-1916 by Eddie M. Nikazy, Heritage Books, Inc. p.174.
11880 Federal Census, Washington County, TN
Page 565 Nelson, Nathan 47, Elvira 38, Elizabeth 23, John 15, Jerusha 13, William A. 4, Ida B. 1
Page 574 Nelson, Nathan 48, Martha A. 40, James T. 21, Abraham L. 19, Nancy J. 15, Margaret E. 6