Kinnick-Longmire Cemetery 2002
Located beside 693 Princeton Road, Johnson City, TN. This old cemetery is fenced in on three sides and mowed. Mr. Lynn Townsend is the caretaker. At present, there is a pile of fieldstones in one corner.
GPS location: 36º21.44 N 082º21.49 W; Elevation: 1516 ft.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web July 2003 by Donna Cox Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2013 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Ninety-five unknown, fieldstones, unmarked or unreadable stones.
In the Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, c1977, this cemetery is listed under two different names on page 14 as the Longmire Cemetery and on page 170 as the Kinnick Cemetery. Information used with the permission of Lorraine Bennett Rae.
Belle Lyle Tilden copied the cemetery on February 26, 1957. The following tombstones were not found June 28, 2001:
Mrs. Emma Cox, d. 1947, aged 88 years [TN Death Certificate 4045: born 2 Aug 1858 VA, died 26 Feb 1947, pts: George and Martha Roberts; widow of James Cox.
E.W.F., 1826-1899
May 24, 1977, Robert D. Hylton found the cemetery so overgrown with poison ivy, honeysuckle, rose bushes and shrubs that a major cleaning would have to be done before all of the plot could be covered. He did not find any more tombstones that are not listed here.
Additional information
Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870 by Goldene Burgner:
p. 166 April 14, 1870 Francis Lawson – Clemmy Ann Taylor – md. 10 April 1870 – Vincent Boreing, J.P.
p.121 January 23, 1860 John L. Longmire – Nancy McInturff
p. 22 February 14, 1824 John Oliver – Elizabeth Campbell – md. 15 February 1824 – William Duzan M.M.E.C.
1850 Federal Census, Washington County, TN.
Longmire, Wm. 44, Traphina 40, Luvina 19, George C. 17, John L. 15, Willy W. 13, Hannah E. 12, Chas. P. 10, Saml. L. 9, Elizabeth, Caswell F. 5, Margaret 4, Sarah E. 2, Wm. M. 3/12, TT, WA 137-305.
1860 U.S. Census, Washington Co., TN
Longmire, John 26, Nancy 24, Margaret McInturf 16, WA 105-183.
Longmire, William 54, Prephena 50, Wyly 23, Charles 19, Samuel 18, Elizabeth 16, Caswell 15, Margaret 14, Eveline 11, Marion 10, Madison 8, WA 105-183
1880 U.S. Census Washington Co., TN
Longmire, John L. 45, Nancy J. 42, Liza Ann 18, Edna 16 (534)
Longmire, William 74, Trepheia 69 (534)
Washington County, Tennessee Death record Abstracts, 1908-1916 by Eddie M. Nikazy:
p.31 Nellie E. Bowman, age: 37 years, married, death cause: “Stomach trouble,” died: 10th District on 25 Sep 1908, record (1908-12) : 92463.
Submitted by Mary Ann King Taylor, 711 Sunset Dr., Johnson City, TN 37604.
F, G.W. is George Washington Fulmer, 1828-1909
F, T.F. is Terphania Anne (Harvey) Fulmer, 1826-1899
F, T.F. is Terphania Eva Fulmer 1888-1888
From Genealogy of the Sanders, Alison and Collateral Families of Sullivan & Washington Counties, Tennessee, compiled & published by W.R. Sanders, ©1972, pp.168-169:
John Fulmer b. 1795, d. 1886 m. Elizabeth White b. 10-12-1787, d. 9-10-1882. Married second, Rebecca Hellum.
Children:
John Fulmer m. Angeline Carthers
James Fulmer (Left home on a boat and was never heard of again)
George Fulmer m. Ellen Mallonee
Children:
John Fulmer m. Trenphia Ann Harvey
From Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870 by Goldene Burgner, © 1985:
p.85 – George Fulmer—Elenor Mollonee—md. 14 February 1850—Andrew Shell L.E. in M.E.C.S.
p.97 – John W. Fulmer—Elizabeth A. Caruthers—md. 25 August 1853—M.V. Kitzmiller, M.G.
From Washington County, Tennessee 1860 Census compiled by Hilda Padgett, ©2000:
p.47 — #188 – Fulmer, George F., Ellen F [T]., Sarah E. 10, John W. 4; Malonee, John 82.
p.49 — #243 – Fulmer, John 59, Rebecca 50, Susannah 52; Goodman, George 13.
From Washington County, Tennessee 1870 Census compiled by Hilda Padgett, ©1997:
p.68 – District 10, #77 – Fulmer, G.W. 47, Ellen 44, John W. 14.
p.73 – District 11, #70 – Fulmer, John 27, Rebecca 60, Susan 68; Goodman, George 21.
From 1880 Census Washington County, Tennessee by Bryon & Barbara Sistler, © 1994, p.33:
Fulmer, George W. 54, Ellen T. 44, John W. 23, Tophia Ann 18, Ellen 2, Allice 1/12 (534)
Fulmer, John 84, Rebeca 74, Susana 76 (539)
From Washington County Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872 by Goldene Burgner, ©1983:
p.101 – John Fulmer April 14, 1881 — Wife Rebecca, sister Susannah – 127 acres farm where I now live adjoining Jackson Kleppers widow, Oliver and others, also what I purchased of Thos. And Nat Galloway in District 11. Son George Fulmer, my second cousin George Goodman — $100. To Angelian Fulmer widow of John Fulmer decd. My son – they have no heirs. Put tombstones at our graves. Executors: son George W., Perry Hunter. Wit.: J.C. Smith, John B. Shipley, D.P. O’Brien, J.H. Peoples. Probated December term, 1883. Signed: John (X) Fulmer.
More information about the Oliver Family may be found in Sketches of the Olivers: A Family History 1726-1966 by Colonel Hugh R. and Margaret T. Oliver written in 1987.
DEEDS – Two deeds have been found that specifically mention “John Longmire Family Graveyard”. Deed Book 102, Page 112 (1909) – Anna Johnson and A. R. Johnson to Nancy A. Culbert and Deed Book 134, Page 290 (1911 & 1918) – Nancy A. Culbert to Hattie H. Kinnick both except the graveyard from conveyance. Plotting the metes and bounds found that the parcel overlays the area in the vicinity of 693 and 715 Princeton Road, Johnson City. Carrying deeds forward, including refined surveys, verify this location.
Carrying the deeds back are Deed Book 80, Page 279 (1901) – D. W. & Lizzie Shipley to Anna L. Johnson. Deed Book 78, Page 434 (1900) – John L Longmire to D. W. & Lizzie Shipley. Deed Book 55, Pages 189 thru 190 (1888) – William & Triphenia Longmire to John L. Longmire. And, Deed Book 54, Page 77 (1887) – Estate of John & Elizabeth Mallone to Triphenia Longmire. Elizabeth’s (1786-1857) marker is found located in the burial ground.
Additional deeds reviewed were Deed Book 207, Page 484 (1939), Deed Book 220, Page 121, Deed Book 305, Page 455 and Deed Book 305, Page 457 (1957), Deed Book 313, Page 92 (1957), Deed Book 348, Page 553 (1962), and Deed Book 420, Page 188 (1968). These latter deeds listed represent subdivisions of the former larger parcel.
Researched and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web July 2015 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.