Harrison Cemetery
2004
Located beside 188 Harwood Rd., Gray, TN. Across the road from the Wayland Missionary Baptist Church. The stones are beneath some very old cedar trees. There was one grave marked by a fieldstone and possibly a few unmarked.
GPS Location: 36°23.52N 082°26.15W; Elevation: 1554 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Hale, Elizabeth 10 Nov 1861 18 Jul 1882 [Her last letter is engraved on the tombstone]
Harrison, Martha J. 29 Aug 1873 02 Jun 1891
Harrison, Sarah Jackson 23 Sep 1835 06 Jun 1899 Wife of Charles Harrison
Harrison, Charles 22 Jan 1835 21 May 1919
Lyon, Roxie Jean 22 Oct 1941 22 Oct 1941 [Same stone as Norma Joyce Lyon]
Lyon, Norma Joyce 22 Oct 1941 09 Nov 1941 [Same stone as Roxie Jean Lyon]
Harrison, John Melvin 01 Jul 1860 03 Jun 1898
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web September 2004 by Donna Cox Briggs and 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.
The last letter of Elizabeth L. Hale, inscribed on the tombstone:
Dear Mother and all the rest of the Family. I drop these few lines to let you know that I am no better [?] days I will be a little better and others worse. Mother I don’t know but I have no hopes of ever being any better in this world. Mother, I am praying the debt that you all have to pay we all have to suffer and die and if we are ready Oh how sweet it will be. Mother I feel that I am traveling home. Just as time can move, to that home sweet home where pain in death never shall enter.
Additional information
Note: From Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870 by Goldene Burgner, p.100 August 20, 1859 Charles Harrison – Sarah E. Jackson md. 25 August 1859 by J.W. Hunt, J.P.
From 1880 Census Washington County, Tennessee by Sistler, p.41 – Harrison, Cas. 45 (m), Sarah 44, J.M. 20 (m), Eliz. 18, M.C. 14 (f), D.S. 10 (m), M.J. 6 (f), S.A. 2 (f) (583)