Onks Cemetery
2004
Located at 4167 Old Jonesboro Road, Jonesborough, Tennessee. The cemetery is neat but some stones need repair. There are many, many unmarked graves and graves marked with plain fieldstones.
GPS Location: 36°17.85N 082°26.44W; Elevation: 1873 ft.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web September 2004 by Donna Cox Briggs, Isabelle Ford, Elaine Cantrell and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. Updated by Gordon Edwards, 2015.
Copyrighted 2013 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
The following markers were found in September 1977, but not in 2004:
Roy Little, son of Mae & John Little
John P. Hiles
Charles Lilly 12 Jan 1871 – 5 Jun 1953
James Estep 1870 – 1040
Alice E. Estep 1872 – 1936
Roscoe Ball 1969
Martha Arrowood 1964
James Arrowood 1880 – 1957
Raymond G. Connor, Jr. 1947
Robert L. Morley 1883 – 1956
Infant sons of W. G. & Reba Pangle 1944
Steve Holder
Carter Holmes 1969
Wm. D. Osborne 1952
Taken from: Bennett, Charles M., Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions, Plus Genealogical Notes, by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, compiled by Loraine Bennett Rae, ©1977-1979, with permission from Loraine Bennett Rae.
The following markers were found in 1999, but not in 2004:
Arrowood, James 1880 – 1957
Arrowood, Martha One date 1964
Ball, Roscoe One date 1969
Connor, Raymond G., Jr. One date 1947
Estep, Alice E. 1872 – 1936
Estep, James 1870 – 1940
Holmes, Carter One date 1969
Morley, Robert L. 1883 – 1956
Osborne, Wm. D. One date, 1952
Pangle, Inf. Son 1944, parents W. G. & Reba
Rose, David 1882 – 1957
Smallmann, Minnie (believe this may have been Johnnie Smallman)
Testerman, Emily One date 3-12-1935, Inf. Dau. of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Testerman
The following markers were found in September 1977, but not in 2015:
David Rose 1882 – 1957
Minnie Smallman
James Estep 1870 – 1940
Alice E. Estep 1872 – 1936
Roscoe Ball 1969
Martha Arrowood 1964
James Arrowood 1880 – 1957
Raymond G. Connor, Jr. 1947
Emily Testerman 1935
Carter Holmes 1969
Taken from: Bennett, Charles M., Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions, Plus Genealogical Notes, by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, compiled by Loraine Bennett Rae, ©1977-1979, with permission from Loraine Bennett Rae.
The following markers were found in 2004, but not in 2015:
Howard Goff – F/H
Marker
Nell Alma Kelly – F/H Marker
Buried in unmarked graves:
Onks, Sallie E., died 13 Jan 1914