Unnamed Cemetery off Rockingham Road
2004
Located next to 364 Rockingham Road in the Boones Creek area of Washington County, TN. This cemetery contains approximately 35 to 50 graves. There were about 25 graves marked by fieldstones and many unmarked. It is located next to the old wagon road. A resident said that he had been told of a wagon train that came through the area and many of them became sick and died. The cemetery was said to be have been started at that time.
GPS location: 36°24.99N 082°24.85W; Elevation: 1440 ft.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web August 2004 by Donna Cox Briggs, Bob Shell 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.
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, c1979, Vol. III, p.85. Used with permission from Loraine B. Rae.
Located on the old Jim Friday farm, adjoining the Virgil Hall farm. Estimated to be 40 to 50 graves in this cemetery. No stones were found that could be read. Wright Matherly’s great-grandmother was buried here.
Unnknown Cemetery off Rockingham Road 2020