Roadman Cemetery
2013
Located along the northern property line of the Tag Payne farm. Accessed through the field behind his farmhouse, not via Sanders Land. No 911 house number on the farmhouse, nor on the tax map. It would be the next property north of house number 171 Bugaboo Springs, Jonesborough, Tennessee immediately after crossing the branch, on the west side.
GPS location: 36°19.958 N 82º28.260W
The marker for John Augustus Roadman found in 1960 was not found in 2013. There is a dumping ground on the western end of the cemetery which could have covered the marker. Three field stones, all in a line, as well as noted several other depressions, toward the eastern end of the burial ground.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web August 2013 by Gordon Edwards, member 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.
The following is from Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, V. III, p.129, used with permission by Loraine B. Rae.
To the Memory of John Augustus Roadman, who Departed this life, Aug 28, 1815, aged 1y 3m 12d.
NOTE: The following information was in a letter from Florence Bearden of Richmond, Va.:
William Cheslie Roadman, son of John Augustus Roadman and Elizabeth Lighfoot, married Sarah Muse Sanford, daughter of Robert Sanford and Lucy Rawleigh and moved to Newport (Tenn.). William died in 1849 and Sarah in 1847. In his will, W.C. Roadman gave his slaves the option of going to Liberia after being taught to read, or serving the family member of their choice. W.C. Roadman’s early life was spent in Williamsburg. W.C. & S.M. Roadman’s daughter, Elizabeth Lightfoot married William Dinwiddie Rankin. Their daughter Amelia married Marcus Joseph Bearden. Their son William Rankin Bearden married Catherine Madeline Doherty.
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Roadman Cemetery Map