Martin (Joseph H.) Cemetery
2015
LOCATION – Washington County tax parcel 020-103.00 off Buffalo Ridge Road, Gray, Tennessee.
GPS LOCATION: +36° 23.695, -82° 28.405
DEEDS – Deed Book 66, Page 306 (1891) – James M. & Sarah Amanda Martin to A. J. Barnes. Metes and bounds are called and parcel was reserved & excepted by Grantor.
BURIALS –
Joseph H. Martin – June 24, 182X – xxx 7, 188X. (Joseph H. Martin was the father of James Matthew Martin.) There is an unmarked depression adjacent to Joseph’s grave, so it is possible that his wife, Margaret E. Shipley Martin, who died in 1901 could be buried here also.
Joseph Martin – Confederate – 4th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry – Sergeant in Company B.
James Matthew Martin’s first wife, Sarah died before 1900 and would be buried here, as well.
No other tombstones, planted fieldstones, or grave depressions have been found.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web October 2015 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2015 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.