Barnette Marker in Tyner Hill Cemetery
Located at 1850 Tyner Hill, Johnson City, Tennessee at the corner of Tyner and Hill Streets. It is adjacent to the Full Gospel Holiness Church, formerly Methodist Episcopal Church, later to be Tyner’s Hill Methodist Church, later to be Grace Baptist Church.
A granddaughter of John Barnett states that her grandfather gave the land for the church and cemetery. The Washington County Cemetery List has the cemetery established in 1926 with 24 people buried there. Other individuals not related to the Barnett family are buried in marked and unmarked graves.
[Since the survey: A shopping center (Kroger’s) was built on Tyners Hill, off State of Franklin Road and , the rest of the graves were moved to Snyder’s Memorial Gardens.]
5 graves remain:
Bailey, Fred H., son of L.H. and Maitsie Bailey, Dec. 9, 1924-June 22, 1926
Bailey, L.H., Apr. 22, 1885-Apr. 15, 1940
Barnett, John “Paw”, Sept. 10, 1859-Dec 30, 1931
Barnett, Polly “Maw” Street, July 2, 1869-Jan 19, 1942
Crowder, Doris Virginia, Aug. 6, 1922-Feb. 28, 1925
[Emma Barnett Haynes first buried at Tyners Hill. After her husband’s death (Garland Haynes), she was move to V.A. in Knoxville, TN. beside him. Probably near or before 1940. Garland was killed in a car accident on Tennessee Street in Johnson City.]
Moved from Tyners Hill to Snyder’s Memorial Garden, 5913 Kingsport Hwy., Gray, Tennessee in June 1987:
McInturff, Nishie, 1886-1925 These three are in one grave at Snyder’s:
Street, Carveta, Sept 12, 1921-Aug 8, 1932
Infant babies of Rowena and Earl Scott: 1 Born-Died Apr 30, 1930; 1 Born Mar. 7, 1932-Died Mar. 8, 1932.
Unmarked graves:
Potter, Clarence Allen 6 wks old
Potter, Jack Wesley 2 yrs. old
Potter, Andra Bailey
Other children of R.O. & A. B. Potter:
Mary Potter [Derting]
Gladys Potter [Walker]
Shirley Potter [Counts]
James Potter
Several members of a Miller family, including infants, are buried in unmarked graves.
John G. Barnett and Polly Street Barnett children:
Lockie Barnett [Hyder], Vista Barnett [Hazelwood], Fannie Barnett [Honeycutt], Nellie Barnett [Street], Hazel Barnett [McDaniel], Martha A. Barnett, Emma Barnett [Haynes] and Nola Barnett [Carr].
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web by Elaine Scott Cantrell member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
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