Greenway Cemetery
2013
Located 100 yards from Little Limestone Creek, about 200 yards from Nolachuckey River at the end of Jonesborough Water Plant Road. Cemetery is surround by a chain link fence and is on the Ken Nelson farm. [2013]
GPS location: 36º10.9N 082º40.25W
Only 3 readable markers.
WILLIAM GREENWAY 1756-1839 Revolutionary War Veteran. ELIZABETH HUMPHREYS 1762-1837. Erected 1997 by Descendants. [New marker in the middle of the cemetery]
In Memory of Elizabeth Greenway, d Aug 15, 1837, aged 75y 7m 20d. As a mark of Esteem from Departed Worth, this monument is Erected by Her Son. G.W.G. [?], 1808 [?] J.G. [29 Au [?] [Transcription taken from an earlier survey. This old head & shoulders marker is very badly eroded.]
INOF LORD
1808
__________
J . J. G.
29 AU
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[Deeply engraved in a limestone rock with a rounded top]
28 graves marked with field stones and several unmarked graves inside and outside of the fence. Two piles of rocks that could have been marking graves.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web January 2013 by Casey Leon Jones, Robert D. & 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 Soldiers in War of 1812 compiled by Mary Hardin McCown:
William Greenway II was born on March 5, 1796. He died on April 5, 1880. William married Margaret McCracken (born July 4, 1802 – died July 13, 1844). Greenway was the son of William Greenway, Sr. His mother’s surname is believed to be Humphreys. William Greenway, Sr. was of English descent. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War with General George Washington. William Greenway Sr. came to Washington County, Tennessee from Virginia, and settled on the opposite bank of the Nolichucky River from Jacob Brown. On his farm Greenway, Sr., his wife and daughter-in-law Margaret McCracken Greenway lie buried. William Greenway II only got to Mobile Bay when he Battle of New Orleans put an end to the war. Therefore, William Greenway II saw no active service. William II and Margaret McCracken Greenway had only one child, William Granison Greenway. He was born July 13, 1844, his mother dying when he was a half-hour old. Wm. Granison married Hester McCracken, a cousin, and they had nine children. Wm. Granison lived with his child, Thomas at a farm one-mile from Washington College, Tennessee. Wm. Granison was in the Civil War. He enlisted in the Confederate Army, and was captured at Big Black, Mississippi on May 17, 1863. Wm. Granison spent 21 long months in prison, later drawing a pension for his military service. William Greenway II served in the War of 1812 as a Private in Capt. Jos. B. Bacon’s company, 4th Reg. (Bayless) East Tennessee Militia. His service began on Nov. 13, 1814, and ended on Feb. 15, 1815. He lies buried in an unmarked grave in Old Salem Cemetery at Washington College, Tennessee.
Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, vol. II, p. 191:
William Greenway and his wife are buried on the farm that they purchased from her brother, Richard Humphreys. His stone is so badly eroded that it cannot be read. The will of William Greenway, Washington County, Tennessee Wills, Vol. 1, p. 261, dated March 12, 139 establishes the following heirs: Sons: William, Jehu H., Jesse H., Richard, George; Daughters: Martha, Mary Ann McNees, Anna Looney, Hannah Waddell, Susan Green, Elizabeth Payne, Dorcas Jordan, Patsy Greenway, and the heirs of Polly Ann [Johnson ?]. Grandson, Eldridge. Also, his Negroes to be sold to the highest bidder among his heirs so that they would be kept in the family. Viz., Robert, Lizzy, James, King, Charles, etc.
From History of Washington County Tennessee, 1988, p.352:
William Greenway married Elizabeth Humphreys (born 26 December 1761, daughter of John and Susannah Humphreys) about 1783, possibly in Virginia, but no marriage record has been found. They were the parents of twelve children, eight of whom were living at the time of William’s death, 3 April 1839. Both William and his wife, who died 15 August 1837, were buried in the Greenway Family Cemetery on the old Greenway farm in Washington County, Tennessee.