Ryan African-American Cemetery
2005
The graves are located approximately 275 yards off Malone Hollow Rd., Jonesborough, TN behind the second house in a wooded area on the property formerly owned by the late Jake Leonard. Twenty-nine graves unmarked and marked with a fields stone were found. One old funeral home marker was located but no writing remained.
GPS location: 36.19.46N 082.27.22; Elevation: 1636 ft.
If anyone can identify persons buried here, please contact Betty Jane Hylton.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web May 2005 by Jackie Peters, Dawn Peters, Chester Willis and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee, assisted by James Brooks and Ron Campbell.
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.
Additional Information:
The late Catherine Malone told a neighbor that she remembered the deceased being brought to the cemetery in a purple hearse.
Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and Watauga Association of Genealogists, Vol. III, p.324, used with permission from Loraine B. Rae. 1930 Washington County Check List:
RYAN – 3 ½ mi NE Jonesboro on the Jake Leonard farm in the 15th District. This is a small private cemetery. It has been abandoned for several years and is grown up in weeds, honeysuckle vines, etc.