Ford Cemetery
2002
Located at 143 Gentry Hamilton Road in the Gray area of Washington County. The cemetery is very large, but most of the graves are unmarked. It was recently discovered that the borders of the cemetery were much larger than first thought. The owner of the adjoining property knocked over and misplaced several fieldstones while cleaning the lot. It is estimated that there are probably 30-50 graves that are unmarked.
GPS Location: 36°25.76N 082°29.97W
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE ROW/GRA COMMENTS
Berry, Eliza Ford 08 Oct 1872 12 Oct 1956 02/01
Chandler, Elizabeth 24 Sep 1852 06 Apr 1915 04/05
Cox, Patricia Lynn No date 26 Oct 1962 01/01 “Inft. Dau. of Charles & Sue Cox
Ford, Bettie J. 1868 1951 03/06
Ford, Chas. E. 25 May 1897 10 Oct 1918 03/05
Ford, David L. 14 Apr 1866 19 Jun 1921 02/02
Ford, Eliza Ann Brown 05 Dec 1872 13 Jan 1938 01/02 “Wife of J. H. Ford”
Ford, Emma E. 28 Dec 1878 30 Apr 1880 05/03
Ford, Infant No date 28 May 1954 02/04 Funeral home marker
Ford, Jane E. February 1812 September 1893 03/03 “Grandmother”
Ford, Jas H. 23 Jun 1869 21 May 1912 05/05
Ford, Jas. Wilson 16 Jun 1918 30 Jan 1919 02/03 “Son of R. L. & Rosa Ford”
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web October 2002 by Donna Cox Briggs and Gary Sawyer members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2011 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Stones found in 1978, but not found at this survey:
Tunnell, John 1853-1862 “Brother”
Tunnell, Isaac 1816-1869 “Father”
Extra names of those buried there from Marie Parker:
Vertie Ford and Hannah Ford
Smith Ford, Wash Ford
Baby of Hannah Ford (she may not have been married)
Unknown
On the Henderson tombstone there’s a mistake in dates…birth date June 23, 1839.