Leesburg Presbyterian Church Cemetery
2006
Located at 629 Leesburg Rd., Telford, TN. The cemetery is mowed but the edge is overgrown with brush and vines. Evidence of 35 unmarked graves were found.
GPS location: 36.12.59N 082.32.56W; Elevation: 1754 ft.
Located behind the church building is evidence of six graves (5 adults & 1 child) in 19 Jan 2006. Only one legible marker was found, that of Moses D. Rice.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web Jan 2006 by Elaine Cantrell 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.
Additional information:
Information from the Tennessee Death Records at TSLA:
Individual buried in unmarked graves:
Carmack, Robert R, d. 5 May 1917, DR 239
Cowan, Bertie, d. 1929, DR 2593
Stephens, Isaac Wilson d. 18 Aug 1927, DR.21332
Elaine Scott Cantrell abstracted the following obituaries from the Jonesborough Herald-Tribune:
Vol. XXIX #2 Wednesday, May 5, 1897. Fairview item. Died suddenly Sunday evening. Will Campbell and the remains were buried in Leesburg Cemetery Tuesday. [No marker]
Vol. XXIX #1 Wednesday, April 28, 1897. Bowmantown item. Died Sunday night Mrs. Sophie McLin and was buried at Lessburg Monday afternoon. [No maker]
Vol. XXIX #2 Wednesday, April 28, 1987. Died at Millbrook on Sunday (24th), Mrs. Sophie McLin aged 57 yrs. She was buried at Leesburg on Monday Rev. W.J. Lewis officiating. [No marker]
Vol. III. #30. April 11, 1872. Dead. Mr. Daniel Crumly died at his residence near Leesburg on Monday the 8th inst. The deceased was born on28 Mar 1806 and consquently in his 6th year. [No marker]
Vol. XXVIII #30. Wednesday, November 10, 1897. Died last Monday evening at 9 o’clock William Bovell Crookshank. Living near Leesburg. He had fell off a load of fodder last Thursday injuring his spine resulting in paralysis. He was the uncle of George W Willet, postmaster of this place. [No marker]
From Going, Mary Sue Carson. Leesburg Presbyterian Church, 1818-1892, Washington County, Tennessee. Jonesborough: Leesburg Presbyterian Church, 1981. Pages 43-44
PEOPLE OF COLOR/DATE
Rhoda, 1825
Darkey, 1844
Biney C., 1836
Mary Ann, 1844
Wilton C., 1836
Abraham Baley, 1851
Mariah S., 1835
Fanny, 1826
Right, 1826
Jim, 1829
Alexander S., 1831
Tenny K., 1837
Washington, 1836
Mariah C. 1826
Hannah, 1826
George B. 1836
Sophia Moore, 1865
Jenny K., 1831
Mariah C., 1828
West, [no date]
Wilson, 1832
Genealogical information enclosed in brackets was found in the following sources:
Bennett, Charles M., and Watauga Association of Genealogists, Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions. 1st ed.: Loraine Bennett Rae, 1979; with permission from Loraine B. Rae.
Burgner, Goldene Fillers. Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.
Watauga Association of Genealogists Northeast Tennessee. Washington County, Tennessee Marriage Records, 1871-1899. 1st ed. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2004.