Smith-Babb Cemetery
2013
Located beside 104 Heritage Place Drive, Jonesborough, Tennessee. This cemetery is also known as the Federal Cemetery.
GPS Location: 36°17.25N 082°27.32W
| NAME | BIRTH DATE | DEATH DATE | ROW/ GRAVE | COMMENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hulse, Sarah B. [Campbell] | 27 Jan 1810 | 28 Aug 1896 | 01/01 | Wife of Jas. P. Hulse [Married 1) Isaac Depew, 2) Jas. P. Hulse] |
| Depugh, L.W. | 1845 | 1913 | 01/02 | Co. I 8th TENN CAV [USA] [Son of Isaac and Sarah B. Depew] |
| Unknown | 01/03 | [Unmarked] | ||
| Unknown | 01/07 | [Fieldstones] | ||
| Unknown | 02/01 | [Unmarked] | ||
| Unknown | 02/07 | [Fieldstones] | ||
| Unknown | 03/01 | [Unmarked] | ||
| Unknown | 03/06 | [Fieldstones] | ||
| Vines, Walter F. | 17 Jan 1879 | 18 Feb 1905 | 04/01 | Son of W.I. and S.E. Vines |
| Unknown | 04/02 | [Unmarked] | ||
| Babb, Ellen H. [[Hendricks] | 08 Feb 1878 | 05 Jul 1878 | 04/07 | Daughter of I.N. and E. Babb [Died of whooping Cough] |
| Babb, Samuel T. [Tilden] | 08 Feb 1878 | 30 Jun 1878 | 04/08 | Son of I.N. and E. Babb Twin of Ellen H. and died of whooping cough] |
| Babb, Isaac N. | 20 Oct 1838 | 16 Jul 1899 | 04/09 | [Son of Joshua and Sara F. Smith Babb][Conscripted and served as a corporal in the Confederate infantry. After being captured, served as a private in the Northern artillery unity and landsman in the Norther navy. Operated a blacksmith shop in the lower portion of his home located at 116 Franklin Ave. in Jonesborough] |
| Babb, Ellen | 07 Nov 1850 | 27 Jul 1936 | 04/10 | Mother [Dau of Wm. & Mary "Polly Ann" Smith] |
| Babb, William N. | 16 Jan 1870 | 02 Feb 1902 | 04/11 | [Son of I.N. and E. Smith Babb. Shot and killed in Rheatown.] |
| Babb, Flora I. [Inza] | 16 Apr 1892 | 24 Feb 1906 | 04/11 | [Dau. of I.N. and Ellen Smith Babb.] |
| Unknown | 04/12 | [Unmarked] | ||
| Unknown | 05/1-8 | [Fieldstones] | ||
| Unknown | 05/09 | [Unmarked] | ||
| Unknown | 06/01 | [Fieldstone] | ||
| Seaton, Eliza C. | 09 Feb 1830 | 23 Sep 1888 | 06/02 | [Shares marker with William B. Seaton] |
| Seaton, William B. | 09 Feb 1821 | 30 Jun 1897 | 06/03 | Father [Shares marker with Eliza C. Seaton] |
| Unknown | 06/04 | [Unmarked] | ||
| Unknown | 06/10 | [Fieldstones] | ||
| Smith, Mary Mauk | 25 Aug 1823 | 29 Jun 1914 | 06/13 | Wife of W.H. Smith [Daughter of Samuel and Polly Broyles Mauk] |
| Smith, William H.[Henderson] | 15 Mar 1817 | 27 Aug 1854 | 06/14 | Aged 37 yrs. 5 mos and 12 days [Son of Turner and Mary Ruble Smith] |
| Unknown | 06/15 | [Unmarked] | ||
| Humpreys, John | 17 Aug 1794 | 22 Sep 1876 | 07/01 | [Married Delilah, daughter of Turner & Mary Smith, 10 Oct 1839] |
| Unknown | 07/02 | [Fieldstone] | ||
| _ umpreys, _ _ _ | [Only one date] | 11 Feb 1841 | 07/03 | [Broken marker with hand lettering. Married 10 Oct 1839 to John Humpreys. Mother of Martha Ellen Humpreys'] |
| Morres, Mare | [No date] | [No date] | 07/04 | [Broken marker with hand lettering] |
| Unknown | 07/05 | [Unmarked] | ||
| [Humphreys, Delila Smith] | [2 Sep 1811] | [30 Nov 1887] | Unknown | [Buried here, according to a descendant. Married 10 Oct 1839 to John Humpreys. Mother of Martha Ellen Humpreys] |
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web December 2003 by Donna Cox Briggs 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.
Additional information:
Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, Vol. II, p.17, used with permission from Loraine B. Rae and John E. Babb III of Corbin, KY.
Margaret “Duck” Keys May of Jonesboro, daughter of Lizzie D. Babb and John T. Keys, provided the genealogy above and the list of others buried in unmarked graves. These are as follows:
Turner Smith, 5 Aug 1777 – 25 May 1862
His wife, Mary Ruble Smith, 2 Sep 1790 – [date unknown] [They were married 22 Jan 1809 [Family Bible] 1 Feb 1809 [from Washington Co. TN marriage record] ; she died after 13 Oct 1860. CMB]
Ellen Hendricks Babb, 8 Feb 1878 – 5 Jul 1878. She was a twin sister of Samuel Tilden; they were children of I.N. and Ellen Babb.
Mrs. Sarah Depew (wife of Lilburn – see L.W. DePugh above)
Infant Vines
Walter McPeak – was a policeman in Johnson City and killed while on duty; was kin to the Vines; first husband of Mrs. J.J. Jackson.
Reminiscences of an Old Timer by Captain Ross Smith, privately printed, 1930:
I was born at Jonesboro, Tennessee, June 10, 1846, the oldest of four children: two sisters and a younger brother. My great-grandparents emigrated to East Tennessee, then the State of North Carolina, about the year 1780. On my father’s side, John C. Smith settled on the headwaters of Little Limestone, just east of Jonesboro. He held two land grants: one, 1783; the other, 1784, from the State of North Carolina. These grants are now in the Lawson McGhee Library at Knoxville, Tenn.
John C. Smith had two sons, John and Turner; two daughters, Sarah and Martha. Martha married a Snodgrass. Sarah married Joshua Babb. In 1809, Turner married Mary Ruble, whose parents came from Virginia and brought with them on an old walnut chest made in Ireland in 1788. The Rubles were of Scotch-Irish descent, and I am inclined to think the Smiths were the same stock. My father, W.H. Smith, a son of Turner Smith, lost his left hand in a premature blast near his home. This incapacitated him from hard labor. He afterwards went to school for several terms, and later ran for and was elected County Court Clerk in 1844, a position he held up to his death, in August, 1854.
On January 17, 1845, he married to Mary Ann Mauk by W.H. Russell, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister. On my mother’s side her grandparents were German and came from Pennsylvania in 1779, and settled fourteen miles southwest of Jonesboro on Nola Chucky River. Their name was Mauk.
My grandfather, Samuel Mauk, married Sarah Broyles. They had four boys and four girls.
John Fain Anderson Collection, Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Volume 14 p.22
Death and Funeral of Mrs. Polly A. Smith
Mrs. Polly A. Smith, an old and respected lady died yesterday at the home of her son, one mile east of town. She was 90 years 10 months and 7 days old and had been a widow for 60 years. She leaves two children Capt. Ross Smith, who was a popular conductor on the Southern Railway, for a number of years, but now retired, and Mrs. I.N. Babb, of this place.
The funeral exercises were conducted at the home by Rev. C.O. Byers, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here, and the deceased was buried at the family cemetery.
In script following article: Generous man Mr. Smith her husband was county court clerk in years. He was a one arm man when he married he was teaching school at Asburry school house, boarding at Captain John Hunters. William Montgomery Mitchell was his best man. Louis Hunter of Color blacked his shoes etc. Mrs. Smith was a virtuous christian woman & mother.
Mrs. Polley A. Smith mother was a daughter of James Broyles . His James Broyles wife also being a Miss Broyles a distant relative of her husband James Broyles. Home was where his son Simeon Broyles lived up above Brownsbrough on South bank of Nolachucky River. Samuel Mauk her father was a soldier in Revolutionary, in War of 1812 he lived at Mauk Town on South Side of Nolachuclee River at Mauk town. First district was named for him, Mauks District. He was a born noble.
1850 Census Washington County, Tennessee:
240-251 Smith, Turner 72 b.SC farmer, Mary 59 b. MD, Mahala 37, Mary A. 29, Margaret 21, Edmund Waistnor 22, William T. Green 10, Allen Humphreys 3.
241-255 Smith, John R. 25, Margaret C. 22 b. VA.
1860 Census Washington County, Tennessee:
856 Humphreys, John 65, Delila 48, William H. 19, John L. 16, Jesse M. 11, Sarah 8, Laura 6, Mary A. 3.
1003 Smith, Margaret 36, Roswell 13, Emily 11, Ellen 9, Samuel 6; Ruble, Margaret 60.
1004 Smith, Turner 83, Mary 71, Mary A. 35; Humphreys, Ellen 13; Head, Willam 25, Margaret 30.
1005 Smith, John R. 35, Margaret C. 32, William S. 10, Mary A. 8, David C. 6, Sarah E. 4, Elbert 10/12.
1880 Census Washington County, Tennessee:
Vines, Wm. 22, Sarah 20, Mary 2, Walter 1.
Babb, Isaac N. 40, Ellen 29, James W. 12, William N. 10, Lizzie D. 8, Roswell 6, Alice V.4, Ellen H. 11/12.
Seaton, Wm. B. 59, Eliza C. 50, Margaret D. 21, William H. 17, Charles E. 15, Lyda V. 10.
Washington County Tennessee Wills
Smith, Turner 13 Oct 1860
Wife, Mary. Granddauhter, Martha Ellen Humphreys. Grandson, Roswell Smith. At my wife’s death sell property for cash. Children: David, Delila, Louisa Tragdon, Rachel Brown, Mary Ann, John, Margaret Head. Executors: son, John Smith, son-in-law Alfred Brown. Wit.: G.W. Telford, Alexander Miller. Probated June Term, 1862.
Signed: Turner [X] Smith
Washington County, Tennessee Death Record Abstracts 1908-1916 by Eddie M. Nikazy, p. 113:
Mary A. Smith, born: 23 Aug 1823, widow, parents: Samuel M. Mauk and Mary Broyles, death cause: “cancer of neck and face,” informant: Ross Smith (Jonesboro), died: 29 Jun 1914, record (1914): 233.
Smith Family Bible:
The transcript of the page is as follows:
Turner Smith And Mary Ruble was married on the 22nd of January 1809
David Smith was married on March 29th 1832
John Humphreys and Delia Smith was married on the 10th 1839
Alfred F. Brown and Rachael Smith was married 9th of 1839
William E. Head and Margaret Smith was married on the 22th of April 1858
Martha Ellen Humphreys was married on the of 14th August 1862 to Mr. Wm. W. Morrip
Note: Mr. John Babb of Corbin, KY owns lot #44 at Heritage Place. Lot #44 is the vacant lot that borders the cemetery on two sides. The cemetery itself lies on land that once belonged to John C. Smith, father of Turner Smith. John C. Smith was given two land grants from the state of North Carolina one in 1783, the other in 1784. The cemetery was originally a part of one of those grants. The Lingo home, across the road from the cemetery, was built by William H. Smith. William H. Smith was a son of Turner Smith. The Turner Smith home was a wooden structure located to the right on the hill above the Lingo home as seen while facing the front of the house. [John E. Babb III]