Humphreys Cemetery
October 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 192 – entry 2-64
“Located in the 1st district near Conklin. There were ten or twelve graves; all stones have been destroyed. It is on the old E.E. Ruble property now owned by Boyd Chandler(sic). J.H. Ruble remembers only one name – Mary Humphreys.”
Some maps have noted this location as Tyler Cemetery. It is unknown where that reference originated and no deed research has made any connection to the Tyler family.
LOCATION –
Oklahoma Road, Conklin Community, Jonesborough, TN.
GPS: +36° 12.000, -82° 32.630
DEEDS –
Deed Book 19, Page 248 (1830) – Miriam (Mariah) Telford to John Humphreys.
Deed Book 31, Page 323 (1849) – John Humphreys issued a deed of trust to G. W. Willett as trustee for W. H. Smith.
Deed Book 34, Page 316 (1854) – G. W. Willett & Wm H. Smith to David Flock.
Deed Book 34, Page 359 (1854) – W. H. Smith leased to John Humphreys, for benefit of Delilah Humphreys.
Deed Book 56, Page 263 (1888) – Heirs at law of David Flock to Edwin Ewing Ruble.
Deed Book 261, Page 593 (1951) – Heirs of E. E. Ruble to Warrick, Hartman, and Garland.
Deed Book 266, Page 441 (1952) – Warrick and Hartman (their interests) to Garland. Cal Garland obtains sole ownership.
Deed Book 368, Page 28 (1963) – Cal Garland to W. B. & Mary Chandley and Boyd & Rena Chandley.
Deed Book 486, Page 554 (1974) – W. B. & Mary (their interest) to Boyd & Rena – who obtained joint ownership. The property is currently managed by Boyd & Rena Chandley’s son, Richard.
BURIALS –
No primary source evidence has been found to date.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web October 2015 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2015 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.