Tipton-Haynes Cemetery
2013
Located between the houses of 303 and 305 Arroyo Drive (Garland Acres Subdivision), Johnson City, Tennessee. This cemetery is well-kept.
GPS location: 36º18.14N 082º21.22W; Elevation: 1782 ft.
| NAME | BIRTH DATE | DEATH DATE | ROW # GRAVE # | COMMENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gifford, David Haynes | 28 Jan 1849 | 04 Aug 1926 | 04/05/13 | |
| Gifford, John Frank | 15 Oct 1843 | 08 Oct 1971 | 04/01/13 | Son of Lawson and Mary Gifford |
| Gifford, John M. | 1812 | 1847 | 04/02/13 | |
| Gifford, Joseph | 1820 | 1853 | 04/03/13 | |
| Gifford, Joseph Broyles | Feb. 1851 | Nov. 1851 | 04/04/13 | Tombstone broken |
| Gifford, Lawson | 22 Dec 1810 | 10 Feb 1879 | 03/06/13 | |
| Gifford, Mary Taylor Haynes | 26 Jul 1818 | July 27, 1901/04 ? | 03/05/13 | Wife of Lawson Gifford |
| Gifford, Matt Landon | 27 Apr 1859 | 21 Apr 1940 | 05/01/13 | |
| Gifford, Rhoda Haynes | 15 May 1853 | 05 Aug 1922 | 03/08/13 | |
| Jones, Mary Gifford | 14 Apr 1854 | 29 Dec 1943 | 03/09/13 | Wife of J.O. Jones |
| Lawson, Annette Gifford | 1857 | 1914 | 03/07/13 | Wife of Frank B. Lawson |
| Lawson F.B. | 19 Mar 1855 | 27 Dec 1908 | 03/04/13 | |
| Simerly, Lawson G. | 15 May 1873 | 16 Nov 1962 | 05/02/13 | |
| Simerly, Samuel W. | 20 Sep 1849 | 06 Jan 1888 | 05/04/13 | |
| Simerly, Samuel W. | 24 Dec 1871 | 21 Nov 1962 | 05/05/13 | |
| Simerly, Sarah Lavina Gifford | 1847 | 1935 | 05/03/13 | Wife of S.W. Simerly |
| Tipton, Captain John | 1730 | 1813 | 02/02/13 | Captain, Lewis' VA Troops, Rev. War. |
| Vance, Lucy M. | [No date] | 1912 | 01/04/13 |
Nine fieldstones and three unmarked graves.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web December 2003 by Betty Jane Hylton, a member 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:
More information on the Tipton Family can be found in the History of Washington County, Tennessee 1988 by the Watauga Association of Genealogists.
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, v.I (with permission from Loraine B. Rae)
According to the late Mary Hardin McCown, a Tipton descendant, Col. Tipton was born in Maryland in 1732 and died in Aug. 1813. He was in the Revoluntionary War from Sheanandoah County, Virginia, and came to Tennessee with his family and second wife, Martha Denton Moore, a widow whom he married July 22, 1777.