- Cemetery is located between I-26 and Christian Church Road. At the Boones Creek exit, turn toward Jonesborough. A little less than 1/2 mile, turn left onto Christian Church Rd. At the top of the hill, turn left onto Grassy Valley Rd. (a dead end road). Park at the end of the road and walk east along the fence between I-26 and the hay field. This cemetery is also known as the R.B. McCulley Cemetery. (Ref: Deed Book 54, page 345, J.M. Shipley to R.B. McCulley in 1888)
- J.M. Shipley
- Born April 1, 1859
- Died Apr. 20 1879
- About 30 field stone. The number of unmarked graves in the approximately 1/4 acres plot could not be determined.
- Transcribed and contributed for use on the Washington County TNGenWeb Site and in the USGenWeb Archives, November 1999 by Robert D. & Betty Jane Hylton.
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:
According to Charles W. Mitchell, 601 E. Jamestown Dr., Winter Park, FL 32792, the following members of his family are buried there:
- Pennybaker, Alfred, b. 30 May 1843, d. 27 Nov 1861 Washington Co. TN
- Pennybaker, Benjamin, b. 18 May 1826, d. 2 Oct. 1861, Washington Co. TN
- Pennybaker, Catherine Kratzer, b. 4 Mar 1803 Rockingham Co. VA, d. 16 Sep 1870 Washington Co., TN. She m. Mark Pennybaker 26 June 1823 Rockingham Co. VA.
- Pennybaker, George W.K., b. 30 Aug 1826, d 31 Jan 1862, Washington Co., TN
- Pennybaker, Isaac, b. 18 July 1835, d. 19 Jan. 1864, Washington Co. TN
- Pennybaker, Mark, b. 11 April 1809 Shenandoah, VA, d. 19 December 1885, Washington Co. TN.
- From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, Vol. III, p.105 with permission from Loraine Bennett Rae:
- Mrs. Ruby Hilbert says that her ancestors, the Pennybakers are buried in this cemetery. She thinks that the Highway Dept. took part of the cemetery. Mr. Herbert Hodge thinks that there were some Negro slaves there and “Uncle” Mib Shipley buried there. Mr. John Henry Shipley says that Jesse Milbourne Shipley’s 2nd wife, Nancy Dickerson, is buried there. (LBR: J. ‘Mib’ Shipley, 1843 – 1919 and his wife, Nancy Ann Brown, 1859 – 1945 are buried at Boones Creek Church of Christ.)
- The following information is from a letter from Mrs. Denman Kountze, Jr. to Charles M. Bennett: “I descent from Joseph Crouch. Joseph & Peggy Sanford’s 4th son, William, who m. Cene Hunt. (She was Aseneth, dau. of Thomas; Wm. & Cene were m. May 23, 1815 LBR) William and Cene’s first child was Landon Carter Crouch, 1817 – ca. 1895, married Susan Shipley, and they are buried on Miss Hazel McCully’s farm on the hill and the only stone left intake was ‘Mib’ Shipley’s first wife, who died in 1879.”
- Carol Simpson states: “William Bean, Sr.’s granddaughter, Rosanna b. 1806, wife of Asa Shipley, b. 1805 and their daughter Susan, wife of Landon Carter Crouch are all buried here.”
- “Asa (Shipley) was a cabinet maker who died between 1870 and 1880 and is buried in the McCulley Cemetery in Boones Creek.” “Bountiful Boones Creek” by the Boones Creek Historical Trust, page 78.
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1880
#161Census Washington County, Tennessee
Shipley, Jessee M. 37, Father (widowed),
Pleasant A., 2, Daughter
Rosa, 74, Mother1870
#26Census Washington County, Tennessee
Shipley, Jessee M, 27, Cabinet Maker
Mary M. 21, Keeping House
Rosa, 64, Invalid1860
#330Census Washington County, Tennessee
Shipley, Asa, 54, Cabinet Maker
Rosannah, 54, Domestic
Joseph, 19, Cabinet Maker
Jessee M., 17, Cabinet Maker
Mary M., 111860
#851Census Sullivan County, Tennessee
Dixon, Plesant, 30, Blacksmith
Martha, 30, Domestic
Mary, 3
Margaret, 1 - Return to index