Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists. Information used with the permission of Lorraine Bennett Rae.
From volume 1, page 217 – WCCL
“SLAGLE – 3-1/4 mi S. of Johnson City. Established by David Slagle. This is a small public cemetery. It is now used by the Slagle family but was formerly used by the Lyles as a burying ground. (This could be the Slagle-Huffine cemetery; however, there are no Lyle graves marked if it is the same one)”
LOCATION – The David Slagle burial ground noted in this WCCL is not the Huffine-Slagle burial ground where David Slagle is actually buried. The David Slagle burial ground is more commonly known as the Young-Lyle-Strickland burial ground. Please refer to that listing for further information. A few death certificates were found for known interreds at Y-L-S and the place of burial was listed as “Slagle”. Those burials occurred during the time David Slagle owned the subject property and were prior to the WPA survey in the 1930’s.
This burial ground was active prior to the Civil War (1830’s and 1840’s), then a few known burials just after the Civil War, and then not again until after 1910, when David Slagle owned the property. It had been inactive for many years, so it could be considered re-established by David Slagle.
It is unknown why David Slagle and his wife were buried at the Huffine-Slagle graveyard, as opposed to the burial ground on their farm. Both the Huffine-Slagle and the David Slagle/Y-L-S graveyards are essentially within eyesight from the David Slagle house and are about 1500 feet apart.
DEEDS – An abbreviated deed chronology. These transactions were for parcels more acreage than just the burial ground, however each did surround the burial ground.
Deed Book 33, Page 276 (1852) – John Lyle to Absolum Scott.
Deed Book 65, Page 46 (1892) – Absolum Scott estate heirs to Mary E. Scott Slagle (Mrs. David Slagle).
Deed Book 165, Page 168 (1924) – Mary E. Scott Slagle (widow of David Slagle) to Ernest A. Slagle (her son).
Deed Book 332, Page 635 (1960) – Harry T. Slagle (son of Ernest) to Charles David Slagle (son of Harry). This deed specifies conveyance by will from Ernest to Harry – a copy of the will was not retrieved. Also, in this conveyance, Harry retained a life estate.
Deed Book 585, Page 436 (1983) – Charles David Slagle relinquishes his interest back to his father, Harry. After Harry’s death, and through a series of estate settlement procedures, the entire Harry Thurman Slagle property was divided into several parcels during a 2009 survey. The parcel containing this burial ground was conveyed to the Lone Oak Christian Church and the deed recorded at Roll 684, Image 1881. The specific metes & bounds of the burial ground were called out for the first time within the deed trail in this last deed.
Deeds researched and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web June 2015 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2015 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
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