Ford, Tom Cemetery
2003
Located behind the barn at 219 A.A. Deakins Rd., Jonesborough, TN (Sulphur Springs Community). In 1960, Mr. Charles M. Bennett described the location as: Located on Peewee Branch of Red Creek (known locally as Red River), which is also a branch of Sinking Creek between Harmony and Douglass Shed Communities. The cemetery is 100 ft. square and is heavily covered with vines and briars. Twenty-one unmarked or graves with only fieldstones.
GPS Location: 36°24.18N 082°32.05W; Elevation: 1763 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Ford, Alie Gertrude 15 Jun 1889 11 Jul 1890
Ford, Clara Mitchell 13 Mar 1858 10 Aug 1941 [Shares marker with Grant Ford]
Ford, Grant 07 Jun 1859 16 Mar 1948 [Shares marker with Clara Mitchell Ford]
Ford, Melvinia 30 Jan 1859 27 Jan 1926 [Marker fallen face down; shares marker with William S. Ford]
Ford, William S. 01 Jan 1855 18 Jan 1926 [Marker fallen face down; shares marker with Melvinia Ford]
Hall, Martha Ealnor 03 Oct 1910 26 Jan 1915
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web August 2003 by Chester Willis, Dawn Peters, Donna Cox Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton 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.
Additional information
From Washington County, Tennessee Death Record Abstracts, 1908-1916, by Eddie M. Nikazy:
p.148 – Martha Ellen Hall, born: 3 Oct 1909, parents: Joseph Hall and Carie Mae Ford, death cause: “Meningitis,” informant: father (Jonesboro), buried: Tom Ford Cemetery, died: 25 Jan 1915, record (1915): 5.
1850 Census Washington County, Tennessee
1803/1842 Susannah Ford 63 b. TN, Rhoda 30, Frances 28, Grant 23, Barbary 21, Louiza 20, Nelson 12, Martha 8.
1804/1843 Thomas Ford 26, Sarah 28, Mary 6, Susannah 4, Rachel 2.
1860 Census Washington County, Tennessee
#654 – Ford, Thomas 34, Sarah 40, Mary E. 13, Susannah 11, Rachel 10, John 8, William 5, Sarah J. 3, Grant 1 month.
1879 Census Washington County, Tennessee
Dist. 13, #1 – Ford, Thomas 46, Sarah 48, Susannah 23, Rachel 21, John 19, William 15, Sarah J. 12, Grant 10, Hannah E. 6.
1880 Census Washington County, Tennessee
Page 593 – Ford, Thomas 55, Sarah 57, William 23, Grant 18, H. Eliza 16
Washington County, Tennessee Wills
John Ford April 11, 1838
Wife Susanna. Children: Thomas, Grant, Jonathan, James and John Washington Ford. Susan Ford – land I purchased from James T. Shipley, McCracken ract, David Kitzmiller Tract and William Proffitt Tract. Single daughters: Elizabeth, Rhoda, Sarah, Franky and Barbara. Grand-daughter Mary Elender. Married daughters: Mary Ford, Benjamin Ford and Nancy Britt and James Brit her husband. Executor: Son, John Washington Ford. Teste: David Kitzmiller, James Jackson. Signed, John (X) Ford.