Luther Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery
2004
Located at 149 Kyker Rd., Telford, TN. behind Kyker’s Garage. Land donated in 1852 by Fyatt Armentrout for a cemetery. The cemetery is fenced but very overgrown with weeds. Several tombstones are turned over and there are bases without the markers. Evidence of approximately 200 unmarked graves was found.
GPS location: 36° 15.32N 082° 34.47W
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 2004 by Donna Cox Briggs, Chester Willis and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. Updated 2023 by Gordon Edwards.
Copyrighted 2023 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870, by Goldene Fillers Burgner
p.98 – November 29, 1853 Faut Armentrout – Elizabeth Shafer — Frederick Armentrout – md. 1 December 1853 – J.K. Hancher, M.G.
p.124 – October 25, 1860 James K. Seneker – Leanorrah Armentrout – md. 25 October 1860 – J.K. Hancher, M.G.
p.13 – September 25, 1867 – McChesney Wagner – Susan Hoss – md. 26 September 1867 – J.K. Hancher, M.G.
p.14 – December 18, 1869 W.A. Hancher – Elizabeth F. Shafer – md. 21 December 1869 – W.B. Rankin, M.G
Washington County Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872, by Goldene Fillers Burgner
p.68 – Frederick Armentrout, May 22, 1857. Wife Catharine – to be supported by son Philip Armentrout. Daughter Layamora to live with her mother if she wants to. Executors: Hiram & Philip Armentrout, my sons. Test: J.R. Armentrout, Michael Armentrout. Probated February Term, 1865. Signed: Frederick Armentrout.
1850 Census Washington County, Tennessee
1097/2141 Frederick Armentrout 62, Catherine 55, Lafayette 32, Philip 20, Eleanor 19, Lavina 17.
1860 Census Washington County, Tennessee
257 Wagoner, Adam 52, Sopha 46, M. Chesney 17, Deniza 21, Virginia E. 12, Luther M. 9, John A. 23.
281 Armentrout, Frederick 71, Catherine 64, Miller, Emma 17, Armentrout, Lenamore 27, Philip 30.
1067 Armentrout, Faatte 42, Elizabeth 26, Sarah C. 5, Susan F 3.
1069 Shaver, Sarah 48, John 27, Eliza J. 21, George M. 19, James W. 16, Leana 5.
1870 Census Washington County, Tennessee
3/1 Wagner, Adam 62, Sophia 56, McChesney 25, Luther M. 19, Virginia E. 21, Susan 18, Adam F. 2.
16/39 Armentrout, Faat 52, Elizabeth 36.
16/73 Shaver, Leann 14 living in the household of Thos. J. Humphreys.
1880 Census Washington County, Tennessee
455 Wagner, Adam 72, Sophia 66, Mc. 37, S.P. 31 (f), A.F. 11 (m), L.P. 9 (f), J.L. 7 (m), C.M. 4 (m), E.M. 1 (f)
551 Armentrout, Fayett 62, Eliza J. 18
1880 Census Greene County, Tennessee
217 Pleasant, Robert F. 30, Leann 25, Samuel 6, Sallie 4, Charley 2.
History of Washington County, Tennessee 1988, by Watauga Association of Genealogist
p.140 [Picture of house] – Philip Armentrout House
This large brick house, constructed by laying the brick in the Flemish bond pattern, is located near Big Limestone Creek [Kyker Rd.] on land purchased by Frederick Armentrout (1791-1864), formerly of Rockingham County, Virginia. His wife was Catherine Layman; they had twelve children. [Philip was one of their sons.]
p.447 Nancy J. Overfelt (1826-1879) married Isaac Pleasant (1824-1876), a native of Virginia, 6 May 1846 in Washington County. Isaac and Nancy owned a large farm on the Washington County-Greene County line near Providence Presbyterian Church and reared their six children there. Isaac served in Company K, 60th Confederate Tennessee Mounted Infantry during the Civil War. Their children: Lewis Calvin (1847- ___); Robert F. (1849 – ____) m. Leann Shafer…
p.304-304 James and Elizabeth Rose Crumley had seven children: (1) John W. Crumley (1854-1913), a blacksmith, farmer and squire lived near Limestone, married Susan Frances Armentrout (1857-1902) they had seven children 7 children: Charles William, Edward, Birtha, Georgia Anna, James Albert, Mary and Philip…
p.314 Thomas Pershing (Tommy) in 1939 married Mell Quinton Wagner, daughter of John Quinton and Margarat Councill Wagner. Mell’s grandfather was McChesney Wagner, Washington County Trustee and a State Legislator in the 1880’s.
Historic Sites of Sullivan County compiled by Mrs. Muriel C. Spoden, Kingsport Press, 1976, reprinted and expanded edition, 1993, p.149:
James King Seneker was born in 1813 and died in 1886. He is buried in Paperville, He married three times: first to Elizabeth Bushong (buried in Paperville); second to Leonora Armentrout (buried in Lutheran Zion Cemetery in Washington County, Tenn.; and third to Mary Hodge (buried in Paperville).