Located behind a fence at 1305 Plantation Drive in the Beechwood Subdivision. It can be reached behind the house 1212 Frederick Rd., Johnson City, Tennessee. Only field stones marking graves were found.
According to Charles Bennett’s Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Transcriptions, in 1977 there was one tombstone, Lydia, wife of J.A. Leonard, 17 Feb 1831 – 12 July 1883. This tombstone could not be found. After talking with the owner of 1212 Frederick Rd., we concluded some stones had been removed over time, no fault of the current owner.
Who was J. A. and Lydia Leonard? After some research, Lydia on several censuses. Lydia was listed on the 1870’s census as a housekeeper at the age of 39 with 2 sons and 2 daughters living within District 8 of Washington County, Tennessee with post office listed as Jonesboro. She was without J. A., which brought me to the question, could he have been a Civil War soldier and died? J. A. did serve as a Confederate Civil War soldier. John A. Leonard enlisted as a private on September 25, 1862 at Haynesville, Tennessee12 in the Sixtieth Mounted Infantry (Crawford’s Reg, 79th Infantry)3 Company G at the age of 25. Leonard “joined for duty” at Blountville for a three year service. Going on through the war, Leonard was captured at the Battle of Vicksburg on May 17, 1863 “by Black” and sent to Fort Delaware, Delaware on June 15, 1863. in July 1863, Leonard was sent to Chester Hospital, Pennsylvania, but later recovered. Prior to April 1, 1864, Leonard reported to the Parole Camp at Jonesborough, Tennessee. On May 21, 1865, Leonard took an oath of allegiance to the United States in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web October 2012 by Chad Fred Bailey and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.Updated November 2014 by Gordon M. Edwards.
Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.