Reed Cemetery
Turn off Knob Creek Road onto Fairridge Road in front of the Knob Creek Church of the Brethren, Johnson City, TN. After going through the tunnel under the railroad, the cemetery is immediately on the right in a field. It has a board fence around it and is well kept. A flagpole with the American flag was erected in 2009.
GPS Location: 36º 20.053N 082º 24.597W; Elevation: 1667 ft.
| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | ROW/ GRV | COMMENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fain, John | 1755 | 1784 | 1/1 | Militia Captain, Battle of King's Mtn. Oct. 1780, Died in Battle with Cherokee Indians [m. Nancy McMahon] |
| Fain, Samuel | 1753 | 1794 | 1/2 | Militia Private, 1774 Point Pleasant, VA, 1780 King's Mtn. SC [SAR Emblem] [m. Rosannah McMahon] |
| Fain, Nicholas | 1730 Ireland | 12 Sep 1789 | 1/3 | American Revolution Patriot, Militia, King's Mtn. Battle, Weaver & Peddlar |
| Fain, Elizabeth Taylor | c1732 England | c1785 | 1/4 | Baptist Church [Shares marker with Nicholas Fair] On opposite side: Fain Children: Samuel Fain I, John Fain I, David Fain I, William Fain I, Thomas Fain I, Ebenezer Fain I, Elizabeth Fain-Evans, Reuben Fain I |
| Miller, Solomon | 4 Jul 1836 | 20 Apr 1895 | 1/5 | |
| Miller, Susan | 16 Apr 1843 | 15 Dec 1905 | 1/6 | Wife of Solomon Miller |
| Reed, Nancy J. | 26 Nov 1860 | 8 Oct 1881 | 2/1 | Daughter of J.W. and Julia A. Reed |
| Reed, Susannah | 22 Jun 1870 | 10 Jun 1883 | 2/2 | Daughter of J.W. and Julia A Reed |
| Reed, Julia A. Miller | 12 Nov 1829 | 28 Aug 1914 | 2/3 | Wife of John W. Reed |
| Reed, John W. | 18 Jul 1836 | 26 Feb 1904 | 2/4 | |
| [Unknown] | [No date] | [No date] | 2/5 | [Fieldstone] |
| Little, Mollie | 11 Apr 1864 | 17 Mar 1900 | 3/1 | [Shares marker with Maurice Little, her infant son] |
| Little, Maurice | 27 Jan 1900 | 19 Mar 1900 | 3/2 | [Shares marker with Mollie Little] |
| Little, Harrace S. | 31 Dec 1894 | 22 Mar 1897 | 3/3 | |
| Little, Edward L. | 12 Dec 1892 | 15 Mar 1897 | 3/4 | |
| Little, Ella G. | 6 Dec 1890 | 27 Feb 1897 | 3/5 | |
| [Unknown] | [No date] | [No date] | 3/6 | [Fieldstone] |
| UNKNOWN BUT TO GOD | [No date] | [No date] | 3/7 | [Hand carved on a fieldstone] |
| [Unknown] | [No date] | [No date] | 3/8 | [Fieldstone] |
| [Unknowns] | [No dates] | [No dates] | 4/1-4 | [Fieldstones] |
| Little, Charles E. | 27 Nov 1889 | 31 Dec 1889 | 4/5 | |
| [Unknowns] | [No dates] | [No dates] | 5/1-2 | [Fieldstones] |
Transcribed and contributed for use on the TNGenWeb-Washington County Page 27 Aug 2009, by Donna Briggs, Mike Briggs, Elaine Cantrell, Bernie Gray, Bob Shell, and Betty Jane Hylton.
Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Additional information:
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, Vol. III, page 123, with permission from Loraine B. Rae and Dessie L. Simmons.
Susan Miller, wife of Solomon Miller was a Bowman.
Julia A. Miller, wife of John W. Reed was the daughter of John Miller, Jr. & Mary Kelly Miller.
Mollie Little was Mary Susan, daughter of John K. & Nancy Miller. She and her husband, John Little were 2nd cousins, great-grandchildren of John and Catherine Bowman Miller. Mollie through their son, John and John, her husband, through their son Henry Miller. After Mollie’s death, John Little married Mary Carper in 1909; they are both buried in the Onks Cemetery near Jonesborough.
Eliza G., Edward L., Harrace S., Maurice and Charles E. Little were children of John and Mollie Little.
Buried here in unmarked graves:
John Miller, Jr. and his wife, Mary Kelly Miller (probably, since this was their land)
John K. Miller, son of John and Mary, who died from pneumonia soon after being discharged from the Confederate Army in 1863. His widow, Nancy Jane Branscom Miller was the daughter of Nancy Jane and Edmond Branscom, married 29 Jul 1869 to James H. McIntyre.