Glaze (Lawrence) Cemetery
2006
Located off of the P. Smith Rd. Limestone, TN. Turn off Corby Bridge Rd. near the Nolichuckey River onto P. Smith Rd., immediately cross over a small stream and turn left. The cemetery is on top of the hill in a clump of trees overlooking the river. The cemetery is being used as a dump for old tires, hydroponic styrofoam planters and other trash. It is overgrown with honeysuckle and graveyard vine (Vinca). No tombstones could be found but some indentations in the earth were seen.
GPS location: 36.11.31N 082.38.06W
From Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, V. II, p. 262, used with permission from Loraine B. Rae.
Copied in 1962 and 1976. It was reported that 35 to 40 unmarked graves were found. The following marker were transcribed:
- L. Glaze, died 182_, age __ [from broken fragments]
- Lawrence Glaze, Jr. died Apl 3, 1819/1849, aged 65 years
- Elizabeth Glaze, Mar [?], Consort of Lawrence Glaze, died March 29, 1819/1849, aged 55
Note: Lawrence Glaze married cousins: (1) Hannah Humphreys, dau. of Richard Humphreys of Washington County on 11 Oct 1809; (2) Elizabeth Humphreys, dau. of Elisha Humphreys of Carter County.
Additional information:
1830 Census Washington County, TN
Glaze, Lawrence 1310001; 100201
From Tennessee Bible and Family Records by the Watauga Association of Genealogists, 1996, p. 178.
RICHARD HUMPHREYS FAMILY RECORD
Richard Humphreys, son of John & Susannah Humphreys, was born in the 1740s and died before Sept. 1810 in the 1st District of Washington County, Tenn. His six daughters by his wives, (1) Mary (Polly) and (2) Aseneth Hunt, are established by their conveyance of 400 acres to John Gray.
- 1. Edward West and wife Elizabeth, Vol. 18, p. 422, Jan. 24, 1829.
- 2. John Gilbert and wife Nancy, Vol. 15, p. 102, Nov. 2, 1814.
- 3. Samuel Jones and wife Seeneth, Vol. 18, p. 159, April 9, 1827.
- 4. Francis Willet and wife Mary, Vol. 15, p. 98, Jan 7, 1812.
- 5. John McFall and wife Susannah, Vol. 15, p. 98, Jan 7, 1812.
- 6. Lawrence Glaze and wife Hannah, Vol. 15, p. 98, Jan 7, 1812
- From the files of Charles M. Bennett] Submitted by Loraine B. Rae.
From History of Washington County, Tennessee, 1988 by the Watauga Association of Genealogists:
p. 149 The Glaze House was built in 1849 by Lawrence Glaze, Jr. (1784-1849) who died shortly before the house was completed. It is located in Washington County just east of the Greene County line – on a road from Corby Bridge to Earnest Bridge, on the south side of the Nolichucky River. It is within site of the old Smith Bridge. [A picture of the house also appears on p. 149.]
p. 203 The Old Stage Road was near Philadelphia and crossed the Nolichucky River at a ford near the home of Lawrence Glaze. In 1912, a bridge was built near the ford by E.N. “Pop” Matthews and was originally named Glaze Bridge but the name was changed about 1920 to Smith Bridge.
p. 344 Lawrence Glaze (1776-1850) was the first of the Glaze family to arrive in Washington County from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (formerly from England). He married December 18, 1817, Elizabeth Humphrey (1786-1850), daughter of Elijah Humphreys (Carter County, Tennessee). They settled along the Nolachuckey River at a time when the area was populated by Indians. The Glaze family, like other families, faced Indian encounters many times. They endured many hardships of the wilderness country.
Their farm was in what is now the present Philadelphia Community. It was there, they reared their five children: William B. Glaze; John Glaze; Lawrence Glaze, Jr, Jane Glaze and Minerva Glaze (who married 1849, Archibald Broyles). Lawrence earned a good living for his family by farming. His children enjoyed the advantages of a good country home and school life and were reared in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of which their parents were active members. Lawrence and Elizabeth Glaze were buried in a field on their farm, Philadelphia Community, Washington County.
More about the children of Lawrence Glaze can be found in The Philadelphia Cumberland Presbyterian Church History, 1847-1985 by Frances D. Rowan and Eva Reeser, 1985.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web April 2004 by Betty Jane Hylton member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
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