Hunt (Samuel) Cemetery
2005
Located beside Greenbriar Golf Center, 2509 Plymouth Rd., Johnson City, TN. The cemetery is fenced and well maintained. There are many unmarked graves. Footstones are marking grave of others, not with matching headstones.
GPS location: 36.18.22 N 082.20.01 W; Elevation: 1713 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE ROW/ GRAVE COMMENTS
Easley, Minnie A. 1864 1897 01/01 An early teacher of the Johnson City Public schools; erected 1953
Unknown [No date] [No date] 02/01 [Concrete slab]
Unknown [No date] [No date] 02/02 [Broken marker; missing information]
Thomson, Mary F. [14 Sep] 1832 [7 Nov 1874] 02/03 Wife of J.C. Thompson [Dau. of Peter Miller; Broken marker; missing information]
M F T [No date] [No date] 02/04 [Footstone]
Vincent, Thomas 20 Feb 1790 20 Jan 1864 02/05
Easley, Elizabeth V. 02 Apr 1831 13 Dec 1879 02/06 Wife of Elbridge V. Easley
Unknown [No date] [No date] 02/07 [Base only]
Pouder, Sarah C. 10 Apr 1825 06 Apr 1876 03/01 Age 50 y 11 mos ? days; wife of Leonard A. Pouder
Pouder, William D. 23/28 [?] Feb 1852 02 Jan 1853 03/02 Son of Leonard & Sarah Pouder
Unknown 15 Jun 1853 8 [?] 1855 03/03 Son of [?] and Elizabeth [Marker broken]
Unknown [No date] [No date] 03/04 [Marker broken; missing information]
[Unknown], Sallie M. [No date] [No date] 03/05 [Marker broken; missing information; footstone is S M P]
Unknown [No date] [No date] 03/06 [Fieldstone]
Unknown [No date] [No date] 04/01 [Base only]
Miller, Mary [No date] 19 May 1852 04/02 Consort of Peter Miller; aged 53 years 7 months and 9 days
J L P [No date] [No date] 04/03 [Footstone]
Unknown [No date] [No date] 04/04 [Fieldstone]
Unknown [No date] [No date] 04/05 [Marker broken; missing information]
Hunt, Franklin 19 Mar 1818 27 Dec 1900 04/06
Hunt, Lorina T. 11 Aug 1828 20 Oct 1905 04/07
Hunt, Samuel [No date] 21 Jul 1852 05/01 Aged 79 Y 9 M & 24 days
Unknown [No date] [No date] 05/02 [Old head and shoulders style tombstone; information missing]
Hunt, Johnnie E. 27 Sep 1850 15 Oct 1872 05/03 Son of James & Mary F. Hunt; aged 21 Y’rs & 17 d’ys
Hunt, Mary F. 15 Jan 1821 18 Dec 1855 05/04 Wife of Jas. S. Hunt [Shares marker with Jas. S. Hunt]
Hunt, Jas. S. 24 Dec 1820 05 Jun 1905 05/05 [Shares marker with Mary F. Hunt]
Unknown [?] Sep 185[?] 18 Sep 1858 05/06 [Marker broken; missing information]
Owens, Nancy Wilkerson 1829 1908 06/01
Unknown [No date] [No date] 06/02 [Base only]
Hunt, Frances E. 28 Nov 1890 14 Nov 1898 06/03 Daughter of S.H. & Mary Hunt
Hunt, Ida 06 Aug 1887 09 Oct 1887 06/04 Daughters of S.H. & Mary Hunt [Shares marker with Hettie Hunt]
Hunt, Hettie 19 Apr 1892 29 Sep 1892 06/05 Daughters of S.H. & Mary Hunt [Shares marker with Ida Hunt]
Unknown [No date] [No date] 06/06 [Fieldstone]
Unknown [No date] [No date] 06/07 [Base only]
Additional information
From Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, Volume I, c.1977, with permission from Loraine Bennett Rae.
Most of the notes are from the Peter Miller Bible, copied in 1928 by Mrs. Mary Hardin McCown and supplemented by her research.
The cemetery is located on land owned by Major Samuel Hunt and Sarah Crouch Hunt, who purchased it from Barnabas Egan in 1809.
Tombstones not found in 2005:
Peter Miller, died 27 April 1863, aged 70y 10m 5d (born 22 Jun 1792, the son of Peter Miller (Mueller), Sr, who was born in Germany and his wife, Elizabeth Boone (Bohum). He was in the War of 1812.
Samuel H. (Hunt) Miller, 18 July 1818 – 17 June 1894, son of Peter; married in 1840 to Eliza Range, daughter of Jacob and Susan Range.
Elizabeth (Miller, daughter of Peter), consort of Alexander McNeil, 3 April 1822 – 23 December 1873 (Married 6 Oct 1853)
Alexander McNeil, born in Scotland, 20 August 1824 – 16 August 1870
Sarah, consort of Samuel Hunt, died 29 August 1852, age 73y 9m 13d, daughter of Joseph Crouch
Joseph Hunt, 2 December 1806 – 15 March 1840/1848, son of Samuel; married Mary McAfee 21 January 1833.
James S. Hunt, 24 December 1820 – 5 June 1905, son of Samuel
Infant son of James and Mary Hunt, 10 October 1853
Hester A.G. Hunt, 27 July 1832 – 25 September 1902.
Additional genealogical information from Mrs. McCown’s research:
Mary, consort of Peter Miller, who departed this life 19 May 1852, aged 53y 7m 9d, daughter of Sarah Crouch and Samuel Hunt – Jos. Crouch Bible. Married Peter Miller, 27 Aug 1817
Thomas Vincent, 20 Feb 1790 – 20 January 1864. He was in the War of 1812.
Sarah C. Miller, wife of Leonard A. Pouder, 10 April 1825 – 6 April 1876, daughter of Peter Miller
Franklin Hunt, 19 March 1815/1818 – 27 December 1900, son of Samuel Hunt
Mary F. Easley, (first wife of James S. Hunt, 15 January 1821 – 18 December 1855
Minnie A. Easley, 1864 – 1897, an early teacher of Johnson City schools; stone erected by Col. Leroy Reeves, designer of the Tennessee State flag.
Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870 by Goldene F. Burgner
18 Mar 1845 Leonard A. Pouder – Sarah C. Miller md. 20 March 1845 by J. Patton, MG
11 Jul 1859 Thomas Vincent – Sallie M. Poe [no return]
15 Jan 1863 E.V. Easley – Lizzie Vincent md. 15 January 1863 by M.G. Taylor, MG
History of Washington County, Tennessee, 1988 by Watauga Association of Genealogists, p. 377
Samuel Hunt (1773-1853 purchased land in Washington County, Tennessee in 1809. Samuel served in the War of 1812 as a Major in the Washington County Milita and was Sheriff of Washington County (1814-1827). In 1797, Samuel married Sarah Crouch (1778-1852), daughter of Joseph (1749-1830) and Margaret (Sanford) (1762-1844) Crouch. Samuel and Sarah Hunt were buried in the Hunt Family Cemetery near Johnson City, Tennessee. Their son, John Bell Hunt (1815-1895), who was on of eleven children, married Rachel Vincent (1819-1899) in 1844.
Washington County, Tennessee Wills 1777-1872 by Goldene F. Burgner
Samuel Hunt June 21, 1848
Wife Sarah. Sons: Franklin, James, William, John B. Hunt. Grandsons: Samuel son of William, John son of Joseph decd. Executrix: Wife Sarah. Wit.: Peter M. Reeves, James W. Deaderick. Probated________.
Signed: Samuel Hunt
Sarah Hunt August 3, 1852
Sons: Samuel – $400, James S. – ½ note given me by my husband Samuel Hunt decd. On William H. Crouch. Tot sons: Franklin, James S. & Samuel Hunt. Exectur: son Samuel Hunt. Wit.: W.H. Smith, Peter Miller. Probated _______
Signed: Sarah (X) Hunt
1870 Census Carter County, Dist. 6 Happy Valley PO
103/103 Easley, Elbridge 44, Elizabeth 39, Nathaniel 5, Minnie A. 3, Albert E. 8/12
1880 Census Sullivan County, Dist. 18
44/44 Easley, Elbridge 53, Nathaniel 15, Minney 13, Embre 10.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web May 2005 by Chester Willis, Donna Cox Briggs, Cameron Spoon and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
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