HAMPTON CEMETERY ON OLD SETH SMITH FARM 2015
Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists. Information used with the permission of Lorraine Bennett Rae.
From volume 2, page 324 – entry WCCL
“HAMPTON – 6 mi N of Jonesboro on the Seth Smith farm. Established in 1820 and discontinued about the same time. There are two graves near the old house. This was on the old Thomas Bacon plantation.”
Ken Saylor currently owns what was the Seth Smith farm, located on Dean Archer Road. He took me to a small burial ground on top of a small ridge on the west side of Dean Archer. This is within tax parcel 035-018.00 The Seth Smith homeplace was just east of this burial ground, on the east side of the Dean Archer Road – It was burned many years ago and a singlewide sits there now. Ken remembered when a large old tree was at the burial ground location.
GPS Location: +36-21.545N, -082-30.400W
LOCATION – Dean Archer Road, Jonesborough.
DEEDS – Deed Book 49, Page 511 (1886) conveys from Jesse Bacon to his daughter, Nancy Jane Bacon Smith (wife of Seth) about 141 acres. Jesse had inherited the land from Thomas, who died in 1871.
Deed succession is not perfectly clear, however, in 1853 Hiram Hampton conveyed about 41 acres to Thomas Bacon.
I have not been able to connect any David Durham/Denham/Dunham to this property or to Hiram Hampton (born circa 1811) – however, Hiram Hampton’s wife was Sarah Duncan. I have not been able to determine any “D” Duncans yet.
It seems reasonable to believe the CMB data, and that this burial ground is the Hampton burial ground, but it may have been established by Sarah Duncan’s family, a generation before Hiram Hampton.
BURIALS – I found two graves, with head and foot limestone markers. I also found a third limestone marker, which Ken stated was leaning against the tree, albeit 40 years ago or so. That marker clearly has a “D D” written on it. Ken was not completely certain, but he thought he recalled someone saying that the D D marker was for one David Durham many years ago.
HAMPTON CEMETERY
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web August 2015 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
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