Weems (Martin D.) Cemetery
Located beside Farm Credit Services, 109 Centre Park Dr., Centre of Tri Cities Business Park, Gray, Tennessee. An iron fence encloses the cemetery. There is room enough for two more graves.
GPS location: 36°25.10N 082°28.08W
Martin D. Weems, 1859-1926
and his wife
Para Lee Seavers, 1861-1922
Maude Lee Hickman, 1882-1920
There are no signs of additional graves outside of the fenced area.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web October 2003 by Donna Cox Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2014 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:
- History of Washington County, Tennessee 1988 by the Watauga Association of Genealogists, p.366:
While teaching at Cedar Creek, Ellis Kelly Hickam boarded at the home of Martin Dale Weems (1858-1923), a gentleman farmer who had previously been a saddler in St. Claire, Hawkins County. Mr. Martin was married to Harriet Paralee Seaver (1861-1922) of Hawkins County, in 1878.
The Weems had three children: Charles; Maude Lee (1883-1920) and Walter. Maude Lee Weems and Ellis Kelly Hickam were married 28 April 1912.
E.K. Hickam first married Louise Carr of Piney Flats who died in childbirth. Their only son. R.J. Hickam, died very young. E.K. married secondly, Maude Lee Weems. Their children: Daisy Irene (1913), Howard Dale Hickam (1914). Mr. Hickam married thirdly, Frona Cox Jobe who died 1965.
Mr. Hickam died 1 July 1956.