Waddell (Jonathan) Cemetery
2005
Located across the Nolichucky River from New Salem Baptist Church. Cross Snapp’s Bridge and turn right onto Bent Rd. The cemetery is under a large tree in front of a barn at the end of Bent Rd., Limestone, Tennessee.
GPS Location: 36º 11.80 082º 36.55 Elevation 1390
No markers remain.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web March 2005 by Robert D. 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.
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Waddell (Jonathan) Cemetery
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The WPA Washington County Check List states the cemetery was established before the Civil War by Jonathan Waddell. There are five to seven burials here. Jonathan Waddell, Soldier, buried here.
From Soldiers of the War of 1812 Buried in Tennessee, compiled by Mary Hardin McCown and Inez E. Burns, p.137:
Waddell,, Johathan (3-3-1779 – 3-11-1836 Washington Co.); md. Hannah Greenway 12-17-1803 (5-8-1785 – 11-29-1867); Capt. Col. Sam Bayless’ 4th Regt E T Drftd Mil under Gen. Wm. Carroll, 11-13-1814 – 5-18-1815, mustered out at Knoxville 5-18-1815 & got pay to Washington Co; W D & T S A; Waddell Fam. Cem, on Nolachurcky River, Washington Co.
Washington County, TN 1850 Census
1577/1611 ELLIS, David 28, Mary K 21, Jonathan 1; WADDELL, Hannah 65 ($3000), Jonathan 24, Elbert 22, Martha 18
1581/1615 Thomas Waddell 33, Elizabeth 30, Mary K. 10, Hannah A. 8, Rachel 6, Samuel D. 4, George W. 2
Washington County, Tennessee Marriages by Goldene Burgner:
December 17, 1803 Jonathan Waddill – Hannah Greenway – John Huston
December 9, 1848 David Ellis – Mary K. Waddell – Samuel (X) Helton md. 14 December 1848 – William C. Dailey, Meth. Min.
Hannah was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Humpreys Greenway that lived just across the Nolichucky River at Broylesville.