SLAGLE (HENRY) CEMETERY

Slagle (Henry) Cemetery
2003

Located below the intersection of Ridgecrest Road and Sinking Creek Road, adjacent to 900 Sinking Creek Road, Johnson City, Tennessee. on a wooded hill. Coming from Cherokee Rd. on Sinking Creek Rd., you cross Ridgecrest Rd. and the cemetery is just after the first house on the right. Trees, deadfall, and underbrush completely over grow this cemetery. Without knowing that a cemetery exists there, no one would ever see the cemetery without stopping and walking up a hill through woods and underbrush to the location. There are several unmarked graves, fieldstone markers, and a few legible markers. Several people who have lived there since the 1920’s, did not know the name of the cemetery, but knew it existed. The oldest marked graves (Webb and Ramsey) denote the people died in 1912. The latest was in 1983. There are at least eleven unmarked graves and at least 40 graves marked by fieldstones. A brick wall surround four unmarked graves.

GPS Location: 36°17.53N 082°21.50W Elevation: 1812 ft.

Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 22 April 2003  by Donna Cox Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. Earlier surveys:  Dennis Slagle, 16 February 2001; Robert McGinnis, 09 February 1976, when it was referred to as the Snall/Chrisenberry Cemetery. This cemetery has also been referred to as the Tucker Cemetery.

Copyrighted 2014 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.

Tennessee Death Records for persons in unmarked graves:
Bass, Mollie Tucker, 30 Mar 1875-01 Jul 1951, TDR#345
Ramsey, David Henry, 22 Apr 1876-19 May 1958, TDR#58-14306
Tucker, Eliza Price, 87 yrs old, 14 Jun 1854-25 Nov 1941, TDR#480
Webb, Theresa, 57 yrs. old, daughter of James Price and Mary Slagle

** Jas. R. Price served first with the Confederate States America.  Enlisted in Jonesborough on 27 Feb 1862 by Mark Bacon into Company F, 60th Regiment, TN Mounted Infantry.  Captured at the Battle of Big Black River, near Vicksburg, MS while under the command General Vaughn (Vaughn’s Brigade) on 17 May 1863.  Ended up at Point Lookout Prisoner of War Camp in Maryland.
 
Took oath to the United States on 26 March 1864 and enlisted in the United States Army.  Assigned to Company G, 1st US Volunteer Infantry.  Muster out on 21 May 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, KS and returned back home to his first Mary Elizabeth Slagle. They were married on 15 October 1854 in Washington County and she died 1886.  He then married Ida Key on 21 September 1888 in Washington County.

Although no marked tombstones prior to 1900 have been found, based upon Deed Book 80, Page 598 (noted below), the graveyard was clearly established before the property left the Slagle ownership.  Several death certificates have been found with “Slagle” listed as the burial spot, and also matching markers were found.  It has been clearly called “Slagle” after the surrounding property left Slagle ownership.  It would appear that the ownership remains in the heirs of the Slagle family.
The burial ground has been referred to as “Snell-Chrisenberry” based upon some names on tombstones, and a few death certificates have turned up with “Tucker” recorded in the burial location, substantiated by found markers.
A very brief genealogy search reveals that most all of those buried there are related by blood or marriage to Henry Slagle.

DEEDS –  
Deed Book 16, Page 220 (1804) – John Wiatt to Henry Slagle.  The deed indicates 100 acres more or less, which might be questionable.  The metes and bounds were plotted and a clear overlay of the current Washington County tax map was obtained.
Deed Book 35, Page 431 (1856) – Henry Hoss, as Clerk & Master, to Charles A. Slagle – No metes and bounds were noted in this deed, however, during a later partition of the “Charley Slagle Farm”, it became clear that Charley had obtained the property from Henry.
Deed Book 75, Page 207 – Deed Book 75, Page 208 – Deed Book 78, Page 28 – and Deed Book 77, Page 345 were all executed in either 1898 or 1899 and represent the partition of 53 remaining acres of Charley Slagle’s land.  Deed Book 75, Page 208 (to John Sanders) is the plot that contains the burial ground.  The deed is silent about the graveyard.
Deed Book 80, Page 598 (1901) – John Sanders to J.W. & Bessie Cardwell.  This deed “deducts” the graveyard.
Deed Book 102, Page 52 (1909) – J.W. Cardwell subdivided and the plat shows the graveyard.
Deed Book 428, Page 147 (1969) – J.W. Cardwell heirs, Leland and Maurice Cardwell, sell to Jasper & Gertrude Calloway.  This deed contained new metes and bounds based upon a 1969 survey, and excepts the graveyard and a R.O.W. to it.
Deed Book 435, Page 335 (1970) – Calloway to Parker – same parcel and same exception.
Roll 497, Image 1162 (2006) – Parker to Kunisch – same parcel with same exceptions.  Kunischs replatted and sold a small corner, however, the burial ground location was not impacted.  Plat recorded at Plat Book 19, Page 405, also in 2006.

Deeds researched and work donated to the Washington County TNGen Web February 2017 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2017 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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