Osborne Family Cemetery
John and Sarah Osborne came to the Johnson City area in 1919 from North Carolina.
A small private burial ground well off public roads and only able to be reached by crossing private lands. Permission to enter is required. Maintained by descendants.
LOCATION – Within the boundaries of Washington County, TN tax parcel 039-115.00 and south, off Weaver Hollow Road in Johnson City, just west of the Carter County line.
GPS – withheld from publication for privacy reasons.
DEEDS – Several deeds were reviewed and none except the burial ground. A couple of deeds in more recent years do note the burial ground along one of the calls – “…..corner of a cemetery located within subject property boundaries…..thence with the line of the cemetery…..124.87 feet…..” (Deed book 688, Page 325 and a 1989 survey). An earlier survey done in 1972 calls the distance as 117 feet (Deed book 474, Page 235).
BURIALS – Five markers are present and based upon information from a descendant, no other burials are known to be there. Four TN death certificates were found and those indicate “Family” and “Osborne” in the place of burial field. The fifth death certificate, for a child, has not been found.
Chappel, James F. – born May 27, 1875 and died June 2, 1928
Chappell, Ollie A(dmira Osborne) – born (Aug 17), 1875 and died (Apr 23), 1947
Osborne, John – born July 20, 1851 and died July 13, 1928
Osborne, Sarah J(ane Shepherd) – born August 28, 1854 and died May 27, 1928
Schill, Betty Lois – born Oct. 31, 1934 and died June 20, 1936
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web July 2018 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2018 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.