Sell Family Cemetery
January 2004
Located behind a car dealership at 3408 Kingsport Hwy., Johnson City, Tennessee. It is on a steep bank. Park in the Valley Ridge Condominiums, W. Mtn. View Rd, parking lot. Walk across the open field toward the back of the dealership. The cemetery is fenced and had recently been mowed with a scythe. Some of the tombstones couldn’t be read and others may have been covered with dirt. The fenced area is large enough for more graves than listed below.
GPS location: 36º21.53N 082º23.22W; Elevation: 1595 ft.
| NAME | BIRTH DATE | DEATH DATE | COMMENT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell, Adam | 1801 | 1874 | [Married Margaret Miller 20 Jun 1822] |
| Sell, Alice | 07 Dec 1872 | 24 May 1944 | |
| Sell, Callie A. | 29 Nov 1869 | 06 Mar 1953 | |
| Sell, Edna | 11 Apr 1885 | 23 Nov 1960 | |
| Sell, Hattie Trephenia | 13 Sep 1879 | 26 Jul 1928 | |
| Sell, Infant | Oct 1886 | Oct 1886 | Infant of Joseph & Margaret Sell |
| Sell, Joseph | 1847 | 1923 | [Married Margaret Longmire, 17 Sep 1868][Shares marker with Margaret Sell] |
| Sell, Margaret | 1846 | 1919 | [Wife of Joseph Sell] |
| Sell, Mary C. | 09 Feb 1878 | 24 Feb 1952 | |
| Sell, Minnie | 14 Sep 1880 | 08 Feb 1882 | |
| Thornburg, Elizabeth | 15 Jun 1837 | 09 Apr 1925 | [Daniel E. Thornburg married as his 2nd wife, Elizabeth J. Krouse, 16 Aug 1866. David Krouse married Elizabeth Sell 13 Oct 1855] |
| Young, Catherine | 22 Jun 1810 | 16 May 18_5 | Dau. Of John & Catherine Miller, married Henry Young 6 May 1825] |
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web January 2004 by Dawn Peters 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.
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, V.III, p.103; used with permission from Loraine B. Rae:
Found in 1962 but not found in 1999 or 2004:
Margaret Sell, 1905 – 1887 [Adam Sell m. Margaret Miller, June 18, 1822]
It is on the tract of land purchased by John Miller about 1788 and which came into the possession of his son-in-law, Adam Sell, when Catherine, the widow of John Miller died about 1844, leaving the homeplace to her daughter Margaret and son-in-law Adam Sell.
John Miller, ca 1764 – ca 1822 and his wife Catherine Bowman, were married June 8, 1789, Rockingham County, Va. (Caty Boughman). She was the dau. of Jacob and Susannah Milhous Bowman. After the death of Jacob, Susannah, who was called ‘Granny Milhous,’ married Rev. Isaac Hammer. Margaret Miller, and her husband, Adam Sell, called ‘the German’ and reportedly from Hanover County, Penn. Lived with her mother, Catherine, after the death of her father.
There is no formal marker for John and Catherine Bowman Miller; however, descendants have been told that they are buried here along with some of their twelve children. The only marked graves of their children are those of Margaret Miller Sell and Catherine Miller Young.
From Washington County Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872 by Goldene Fillers Burgner, c1983:
ADAM SELL August 30, 1873
Wife Margaret. Children: Elizabeth Thornburg – $1, Joseph Sells, Sarah Moore, Matilda Moore, Catharine Cruthers, Susannah Smith, George & Henry Sells – to receive equally except Catharine Cruthers who is to receive $100 more. Daughter Mary Prichet has her part. Executor: John White. Wit.: H.H. Carr, L.A. Fan. Signed: Adam Sell
4 September 1873 – Margaret Sells adopted Adam’s will as her own.
Probated November Term, 1874. Signed: Margaret (X) Sell.
*Richard Moore m. Matilda Sells 14 October 1861.
*Samuel Caruthers m. Catharine Sell 8 January 1854.
*James C. Smith m. Susan Sells 16 May 1850.
*John Pritchett m. Mary Sell 29 October 1846.
*George Sell m. Abigal Bacon 23 December 1849.
*Henry Sells m. Louisa Hale 12 August 1869.
*Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870 by Goldene Fillers Burgner, c1985.