Grisham/Grisham Cemetery
2002
Located beside 234 Shipley Rd., Gray, TN. Fenced in on three sides.
GPS Location: 36° 23.80N 082° 27.53W
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Bacon, Jacob 18 Aug 1846 16 Apr 1930 [Shares marker with Mary Elizabeth Bacon]
Bacon, Mary Elizabeth 27 Apr 1848 01 Aug 1916 [Shares marker with Jacob Bacon]
Beals, [?] Viola 20 Jul 1910 07 Aug 1910 Daughter of L.D. & F. D. Beals
Campbell, Eva [No date] 04 Mar 1897 Aged 79 YRS
Campbell, H .C. [No date] 01 Feb 1890 Aged 84 YRS
Clark, Elizabeth Grisham 21 Jun 1824 12 Jun 1900 Wife of James P. Clark
Clark, James P. 09 Oct 1823 08 Jan 1874 Aged 30 Ys. 2 Mo. 28 Ds.
Fleenor, Evelyn Ruth 23 Nov 1921 27 Jan 1922 Daughter of E.R. & M.E. Fleenor
Gresham, Belle 08 Jan 1868 17 May 1959
Gresham, Charles Madison 1881 1944 [Shares Marker with Mary Kennedy Gresham. Footstone - Charles Madison Gresham, Aug. 28, 1881, April 22, 1944]
Gresham, Charles Sumner 28 Aug 1875 01 Sep 1905 [Shares marker with Minnie Hale Gresham]
Gresham, Clara Lee 11 Jan 1898 30 Dec 1898 Daughter of C.S. & M.E. Gresham.
Gresham, George N. 08 Nov 1863 03 Feb 1889 Son of Jas. M. & Mary E. Grisham. Aged 25 Ys 2Ms 25 Das.
Gresham, Hassie Kate 19 Mar 1877 07 Aug 1970
Gresham, Herman Hale 17 Jun 1896 21 Apr 1953 [Shares marker with Sarah Wine Gresham]
Gresham, Howard 1907 1943 [43 was cut over 34]
Gresham, Ida E. 07 Jul 1866 28 Jan 1953
Gresham, James Madison 17 Apr 1874 21 Apr 1959 [Shares a marker with William Winter Gresham]
Gresham, Margaret Bowie 1842 1900 [Shares marker with William Madison Gresham]
Gresham, Mary Kennedy 1870 1961 [Shares marker with Charles Madison Gresham]
Gresham, Minnie Hale 07 Jun 1875 27 Aug 1953 [Shares marker with Charles Sumner Gresham]
Gresham, Peter H. 1828 03/10/11
Gresham, Sarah Wine 21 Oct 1896 18 Dec 1981 [Shares marker with Herman Hale Gresham]
Gresham, William Madison 1836 1898 [Shares maker with Margaret Bowie Gresham]
Gresham, William Winter 29 Sep 1882 12 Sep 1914 [Shares marker with James Madison Gresham]
Grisham, Edgar Sevier [No date] 08 Dec 1863 Infant son of Capt. G. Edgar & Maggie Jane Grisham
Grisham, G. Edgar 04 Nov 1833 04 Aug 1873 [Masonic Emblem]
Grisham, George 12 Feb 1795 07 May 1878
Grisham, George E. 20 Feb 1843 19 Jun 1861 Son of John E. & Louisa M. Grisham
Grisham, Horace Clemmitt 13 Mar 1868 19 Jul 1869 Infant son of Geo. Edgar & Maggie Jane Grisham.
Grisham, J.F. 1822 1890 [Shares marker with Matilda Grisham]
Grisham, Jas. M 11 Sep 1844 23 Jan 1905
Grisham, Martha E. 27 Nov 1849 08 May 1851 Daughter of John & Louisa M. Grisham
Grisham, Mary Boone 11 Feb 1797 31 Oct 1871 Wife of George Grisham
Grisham, Mary E. 12 Feb 1847 11 Jan 1896 Wife of J.M. Grisham
Grisham, Mary Frances [No date] 23 Jan 1862 Infant daughter of Capt. G. Edgar & Maggie Jane Grisham
Grisham, Matilda 1815 1910 Shares marker with J.F. Grisham
Grisham, Sarah 11 Sep 1815 18 May 1878 First of ten children of Mary B. & George
Hale, Florence Dora 27 Feb 1874 06 Apr 1919 Wife of W.W. Hale
Keebler, James Haws 1872 1935
Keebler, Joseph G. 1896 1951
Keebler, Sophie C. Gresham 1869 1945 Wife of J.H. Keebler
Moore, Fields Decator 09 Feb 1879 13 Jan 1902
Moore, G.D. 02 Sep 1879 09 Jul 1911 Aged 40 Yrs. 10 Mo, 7Ds. [Masonic and Order of the Odd Fellows emblems]
Moore, Leone Mae 28 Sep 1895 20 Feb 1899 Daugtr. of Mr. & Mrs. G.D. Moore
Moore, Mary Amanda (Dyer) 01 Jun 1877 30 Dec 1900 [Unusual metal marker]
Moore, Sarah 21 Sep 1844 23 Sep 1887 Wife of Wm. Moore
Moore, William L 16 Jun 1839 24 May 1921
Range, A.J. 10 Jan 1863 14 Feb 1909 [Woodsmen of The World Memorial Marker]
Range, Alice L. Bacon 28 Mar 1870 12 Sep 1906 Wife of A.J. Range
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web September 2002 by Donna Cox Briggs, Wanda Cox and Gary Swayer 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.
9 graves marked with fieldstone
8 unmarked graves
Additional information
George Edgar Grisham died during the cholera epidemic that hit Jonesborough in the year of 1873.
“He devoted himself, since the plague came upon Jonesboro, to the watchful care of the sick. He visited alike the homes of the poor and opulent, and wherever deeds of mercy were demanded by human anguish, Grisham went. By day and night he was at the bedside of the sick, discharging from every menial task. When he himself was sick, he forgot his own danger and sufferings, and died at last from sheer devotion to the well-being of his fellow man.” [Jonesboro Herald-Tribune)
Capt. George Edgar Grisham commanded Company I, 8th Tennessee Cavalrey. Grisham was a devout Union man and edited a newspaper in Jonesborough before and after the war. Grisham resigned his commission in October 1964 but commanded a compnay of State Guard, which struggled to control the chaos and the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee during Reconstruction. (Tennessee State Museum)
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, v. III, pp.74-75 with permission from Loraine Bennett Rae.
Elizabeth Grisham Clark, daughter of George Grisham.
Mary E. Grisham, nee Barnes; married Oct. 19, 1862.
Matilda Grisham, nee Carroll
Mary Boone Grisham, dau. Peter & Sarah Steadman Hoss.
George Gresham (1795-1878) son of John & Anne “Nancy” Hale Gresham; War of 1812.
Peter H. Grisham, son of George Grisham.
A. [Andrew] J. [Jackson] Range
1880 Washington Co. TN Census
P.488 Grisham, James M. 35, Mary E. 33, George N. 16, Ida 14, Carrie B. 12, Sophia C. 11, John F. 9, Horace M. 7, James M. 6, Charles H. 4, Hassie 3.
P. 566 Campbell, Hiram 64, Eveline 45, Fuller 17, David 15.
P.542 Moore, William L. 38, Sarah 34, Margaret E. 14, Joseph A. 10, Augustus D. 8, Florence B.D. 6, Ida V. 4, Fields D. 1.
P.584 Dyre, David 43, Elizabeth 39, S.W. 14 (f), Jack 13, Wm. C. 11, R.A. 9 (m), M.J. 7 (f), J.A. 5 (m), Mary A. 3, F.E. 1/2 (f), Robert 82.
P.565 Beals, Joseph E. 35, Martha I. 27, Luckey D. 12, John W. 10, Louellah B. 8 Charles T. 3, David R. 10/12
P.533 Bacon, Jacob 33, M.E. 32 (f), J.A. 12 (m), L.A. 9 (f), W.S. 7 (m)
P.542 Clark, Elizabeth 55, Lenora E. 19, George E.1
From History of Hales Chapel Christian Church, p. 32:
James Madison (1844-1905), the great great grandson of Thomas, was the oldest son of John Fuller Gresham and Matilda Louisa (Carroll/Ellis). He married Mary Elizabeth Barnes and they had a family of ten children, most of whom were members at Hales Chapel. Their home place burned in 1985 but was on the land now known as Buffalo Ridge Estates. This was home for Ida and Belle Gresham until they were up in years and moved to Jonesborough. Here their sister, Hassie, joined them when she retired from teaching school in Knoxville, and their brother, James Madison, Jr., when he retired as a lawyer in Oklahoma. Several of the other children married and settled in this community and their descendants are still at Hales Chapel. Charles S. [Sumner] married Minnie [Eckel] Hale, [daughter of William Chamberlain Hale and Sarah Frances Leab.] Horace M. married Bessie Keyes and his home was near the Gresham Cemetery until he moved to Jonesborough. Cordelia married James A. Keebler and their home was near the intersection of the Buffalo Ridge and Jonesborough road known as Keebler’s Crossroads. William Winter’s home was in Oklahoma, but he is buried in the Gresham Cemetery along with most of the rest of this family. George Newman was also a lawyer and John Fuller, Jr.’s home was in Knoxville where he was in the dry-goods business.
James Madison’s sisters, Amanda E. married Julius A. Stafford and Mary E. married Jacob Bacon and they are all listed as early members of Hales Chapel. He also had two brothers, George E. who died young and John A. who married Sarah E. Neil in Knoxville.