Gibson-Carr Cemeteries
2005
Located at the end of Carr Cemetery Rd, in the Watauga Flats Area of Johnson City, Tennessee, next to the A.C. Carr Cemetery. Well maintained cemetery.
GPS location: 36 °23.20N 082 °18.71W; Elevation: 1490 ft.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web Febuary 2005 by Chester Willis, Robert Shell, Jan Clark, Donna Cox Briggs members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. Updated April 2019 by Phillip Carr.
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:
Found in 1966 & 1976 but not in 2005:
Gibson, Inf. Dau. of Raymond & Wanda Gibson, 1970
Hilton, William Weldom, d. 7 Mar 1952, aged 59y 10m 13d
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, v. III, p. 102, with permission from Loraine B. Rae.
This cemetery is on land owned during the Revolutionary War by Jeremiah Dungan, which was passed to Jeremiah Dungan Gibson, Thomas Gibson, and Orpha Gibson, who married Seth Thompson – all grandchildren of Jeremiah and Mary Dungan. There are a few unmarked graves.
1860 Census Washington County TN
#46 Gibson, William 35, Hannah 36, Manerva C. 7, Abagail 5, Susan M. 4, John J.N. 3, Mary A. 10/12
1870 Census Washington County, TN
Dist. 9 #179 Gibson, William 45, Hannah 46, Minerva 17, Abigail J. 15, Susan M. 14, Thos. J. 9, Harriett 6
1880 Census Washington County, TN
Dist. 9 #260 Gibson, Wm. 55, Hannah 56, Minerva 26, A. Jane 24, Jefferson 19, Harriet E. 16