Reasoner Cemetery
2006
Located approximately 2/3rd up the wooded, steep hill behind Building #7 of Doe River Apartments on Dave Buck Rd., Johnson City, TN. The cemetery has been fenced at one time by evidence of old fence posts and bits of wire. Faded surveyors tape indicated that it has been surveyed in recent years. Brush and vines are in the center of the cemetery.
GPS location: 36º18.99 N 082º19.30 W; Elevation: 1756 ft.
No legible markers were found.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web January 2006 by Chester Willis, Jan Clark, Donna Cox Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
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:
Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, ©1977 with permission from Lorraine B. Rae.
Located Southeast of Johnson City on land originally granted to Joseph Tipton on Oct. 13, 1782 by the state of North Carolina. In 1828, the Reasoners sold the land to Wm. Stover. Copied by Mary Hardin McCown.
Old rock:
MA ED
FEBT –
1820
East Tennessee Tax Records Index, Volume I: Washington County 1778-1821, ©2005 compiled by Geoffrey D. Rasmussen.
Garnet Reasoner appears in the 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793 and 1795 list.
History of Washington County Tennessee 1988, by the Watauga Association of Genealogists, page 423:
Solomon Miller married 1st Barsheba Reasoner, April 22, 1813, Carter County, TN, daughter of Garrett Reasoner.
Washington County, Tennessee Marriages 1780-1870, ©1985 by Goldene F. Burgner:
Page 4: 23 Apr 1793 Ganett Reasoner to Margaret Rennor by Joseph Tipton
Page 10: 20 May 1813 Nicholas Reasoner to Polly Miller by Jacob Miller
The Miller Family of Knob Creek Washington County, Tennessee, by Jeanne Lyle Sell, ©1985.
Page 41:
Solomon Miller (10-18-1792 – 8-31-1875) married the first time 4-22-1813 in Carter County, TN to Barsheba Reasoner who was the daughter of Garrett Reasoner, and a sister of Nicholas Reasoner who married Solomon’s sister Mary (Polly) Miller.
Page 44:
Mary Reasoner VS Nicholas Reasoner Saturday 31st December 1836, a suit for divorce in Monroe County, Tennessee.