LEESBURG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY

 

Leesburg Presbyterian Church Cemetery 2006

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.

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