Little-King Cemetery
2002
Located to the right of Williams Bros. Coal & Trucking Building, 2102 E. Fairview Ave., Johnson City, TN. It is among some locust trees and a TVA power station is across the railroad tracks from the cemetery. The red and white sign in the background of the picture is Volunteer Oil. There are no markers, only field stones.
GPS location: 36º20.30N 082º19.56W
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web November 2002 by Robert D. & 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.
Additional Information:
Tennessee Death Record No. 292
Infant Male of Clarence and Lizzie Carrigan Weaver, b.&d. 27 Jun 1915. Buried in King Cemetery.
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, Vol. I, p. 125, used with permission from Lorraine Bennett Rae:
According to Dessie Simmons and the late Mary Hardin McCown, Jonas Little is probably buried here, as this was his land. His descendants have placed a marker to him in the Miller Cemetery on Knob Creek Road. Jonas Little, 1735-1818, was the son of Thomas and Mary Denton Little. He served in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War. His wife, Rebecah is probably buried here. Also probably buried here are Louvisa Little Boring and her husband Vincent Boring. She was the daughter of John Little (son of Jonas and Rebecah) and Elizabeth Carr Little (daugher of John and Louvisa Isbell Carr). According to Mrs. Simmons, there were probably about 30 graves at one time.
William F. King bought the land from Jonas Little. King married Ruth Little, her relationship to Jonas is unknown. Members of the King family were then buried here. Henry King, a Civil War Veteran has been moved to Monte Vista.
From History of Washington County, Tennessee 1988, by the Watauga Association of Genealogists
p.397:
Henry King, born Ireland (1752-1825), son of Thomas King and his first wife Mary Willis (Thomas King¹s second wife was Elizabeth Hanna). Henry King married Augusta County, Virginia, by Rev. Wm. Brown 8 January 1778 to Sarah Shields (1754-1847). Henry King served on the North Carolina Militia from Washington County, Tennessee in the Revolutionary War, Certificate of pay No. 2913, 16 August 1782. The Kings were removed from the King-Little Cemetery, East Fairview Avenue to Monte Vista Cemetery, Section 10, Lot 13, Johnson City by William C. King before his death in 1939, a grandson of Thomas and Rebecca (Little) King.
p. 398:
Thomas King (1783-1856) married Rebecca Little (1785-1849) 27 December 1804 in Washington County. Rebecca and Thomas were buried in the King-Little Cemetery where her parents and his parents are buried. Rebecca was the daughter of Jonas (Revolutionary War) and Rebekah Little.