Union Grove Cemetery
2013
Located across the road from 558 Conklin Road in the New Victory Community, Telford, Washington County, Tennessee.
GPS Location: 36°13.39N 082°31.14W; Elevation: 1685 ft.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
[Unknown], Katie [No date] [No date] [Funeral home marker with all information missing, except first name]
Allison, Carolyn 24 Jun 1939 28 Dec 1991 [Same stone as Luther A. Allison]
Allison, Fleta M. 15 Jun 1894 14 Jul 1983 [Same stone as William L. Allison]
Allison, Flora E. 09 Feb 1895 15 Apr 1958
Allison, Luther A. 30 Jun 1915 21 Apr 1979 [Same stone as Carolyn Allison]
Allison, William L. 06 May 1897 20 Sep 1963 [Same stone as Fleta M. Allison]
Barkley, A. J. 22 Oct 1923 12 Mar 1988
Barkley, Cora 08 Oct 1899 12 Oct 1976
Barkley, Farlettia O. 03 Apr 1927 19 Jul 1971
Barkley, James 26 Jan 1900 24 Jan 1972
Bayless, Andrew 25 Dec 1869 01 Jan 1898
Bayless, Elbert 15 Apr 1872 05 Sep 1894
Bayless, Frances [No date] 23 Oct 1918 Aged about 89 years
Bayless, George 28 Oct 1874 04 Dec 1891
Bayless, Wm. Levi 28 Dec 1828 21 Oct 1911 Aged 82 Yrs, 9 Mos, 23 Da’s
Birdwell, Hattie T. 18 Apr 1889 19 Aug 1976 [Same stone as John Wesley Birdwell]
Birdwell, John Wesley 20 Aug 1888 22 May 1963 [Same stone Hattie T. Birdwell]
Braithwaite, Alva 1922 2004 [Dillow-Taylor Funeral home marker]
Daughtry, Mildred Birdwell 18 Aug 1924 05 Apr 1999 [Eastern Star emblem]
Dickson, Geneva J. 23 Dec 1925 17 Sep 1997
Dickson, Larkin D. “Tom” 1927 1978
Evans, Willie C. 05 Feb 1904 08 Aug 1986 [Same stone as Margaret M. Fulgham]
Fulgham, Margaret M. 30 Jul 1893 14 Jun 1964 [Same stone as Willie C. Evans]
Gillespie, Anna B. 1876 1954 [Same stone as Robert E. Gillespie]
Gillespie, Robert E. 1869 1952 [Same stone as Anna B. Gillespie]
Greenlee, George W. 24 Apr 1914 01 May 1961 Tennessee TEC 5 US Army World War II
Greenlee, Mrs. Sallie W. 25 Feb 1900 28 Aug 1984
Hale, Flora D. 19 Jul 1912 20 Jul 2002 Eastern Star Emblem
Hale, Melvin E. 04 Oct 1905 10 Mar 1992 [Mason, Eastern Star, Shriner emblems and one unknown emblem]
Hart, Anna Frances 25 Dec 1949 18 Jun 1952 [Bottom edge of marker is broken off]
Hart, Elbert C. 1925 1976 [Funeral home marker]
Hart, William Sr. 09 Oct 1878 26 Jul 1960
Lyons, Agnes 15 Mar 1892 30 Sep 1928
Lyons, Buena V. 08 May 1908 06 Mar 1977 Married Nov. 12, 1925
[Same stone as Frank D. Lyons]
Lyons, Frank D. 23 Jan 1900 15 Jul 1977 Married Nov. 12, 1925
[Same stone as Buena V. Lyons]
Lyons, Horace 1913 1978
Lyons, Ina 1907 1999
Marshall, Andrew Jackson 04 Jan 1920 08 Mar 1990 PFC US Army World War II
Marshall, Andrew Jackson Jr. 18 Sep 1949 28 Nov 1970
Marshall, Margaret 1925 2003 [Dillow-Taylor Funeral home marker]
Marshall, Rena Isabell 14 Feb 1914 09 Dec 1989
Mathes, Michael C. 17 Jul 1960 14 Nov 2011
McKinney, Ernest L. Sr. “Fess” 26 Nov 1923 30 Nov 2009
McKinney, Vera Jackie 1955 1987 Mother
Miller, C. V. Mar 1836 12 May 1879 Wife of Isaac Miller
Murray, Anniner V. 30 Jun 1902 17 Apr 1914 Daughter of John C. & Mary E. Murray
Murray, Arthur 1915 1992
Murray, Harold Edwin 1928 1980 Educator-Father-Husband
Murray, James Clarence, Jr. [No date] 06 Oct 2013
Murray, Mary Ethel 27 Jun 1885 19 Apr 1914 Wife of John C. Murray
[Stone is sinking and dates are buried]
Murray, Matilda Jun 1821 07 Jul 1911 Wife of Isaiah Murray
Pace, Lillian T. 30 Aug 1925 29 Aug 1959
Pierce, Ida Adeline 20 Nov 1907 15 Jan 1954
Ray, Ella Murray 1901 1997
Robertson, Mary Welda Murray 1907 [No date] [New grave. Date not yet inscribed]
Russell, Curtis F. 28 Feb 1925 15 May 1975 CK 2 US Navy
Russell, Deo N. 15 May 1930 05 Dec 1971 PN 2 US Navy
Russell, Elizabeth G. 1872 1924
Scott, Adeline J. 1933 1994 [Funeral home marker]
Scott, Bobbie L. [Robert Lee] 13 May 1934 08 Aug 1991 [Funeral home marker gives the name “Robert Lee”]
Shank, Gertrude 1929 2003 [Dillow-Taylor Funeral home marker]
Shepperson, Edith F. 1901 1987
Sliger, Sarah [No date] 10 Oct 1897 Wife of George Sliger
Taylor, Amelia “Babe” B. 11 Aug 1904 04 Nov 1992
Taylor, Clara R. 1903 1973 [Same stone as Paul E. Taylor]
Taylor, John Wesley 05 Jun 1924 03 Jun 2004
Taylor, Paul E. 1897 1967 [Same stone as Clara R. Taylor]
Watts, Mary Taylor 19 Apr 1908 21 Apr 1960
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 27 May 2003 by Donna Cox Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.Updated 14 Feb 2013 by Robert and Betty Jane Hylton.
Copyrighted 2013 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
The following markers were found in 1977, according to the Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, used with permission by Loraine B. Rae.
Russell, Samuel 1868 – 1924
Greenlee, James 8 Oct 1936 – 27 Oct 1968
Scott, Henry R., Sr. 1905 – 1972
Johnson, George P. 1929 – 1972
Johnson, Mattie 1927 – 1970
Jordan, Etta (no dates)
Hale, Jennie K. 1881 – 20 Mar 1962
Hale, Fred R. 1910 – 1969
Johnson, Jennie H. 1920 – 1972
Allison, Flora Taylor, b. 9 Feb 1895, d. 15 Apr 1958
UNION GROVE CEMETERY TENNESSEE DEATH RECORDS FOR UNMARKED GRAVES
Banner, Reba, b. 8 Aug 1915, d. 4 Dec 1941 [DR 28426]
Fletcher, Lyons, b. 1840, d. 7 JUL 1927 [DR 16786]
Lyons, Hermon, b. 20 Dec 1907, d. 11 Jul 1941 [DR 17132]
Pillar, Laura, b. 4 Mar 1871, d. 10 Oct 1941 [DR 23620]
Russell, James Y., b. 14 May 1906, d. 10 Nov 1926 [DR 28679]
DEED
Deed Book 46, Page 438 (1877) – Edward West to J. Murray, I. Miller, A. Hill, West McKee, W. Murray, and Sidney Mivet (sic – Maverick). “…..committee above named are agents for the colored persons…..” Deed notes that “…..there IS a House for Public Worship and scool (sic) purposes for the use of the colored persons…..”
The plotting of the metes and bounds called in the deed match Washington County tax parcel 082-089.00 where the cemetery now exists.