Williard (Nancy Jane “Nannie”) Grave
2015
From a note supplied by Ella Buchanan to Elaine Scott Cantrell. Additional information supplied by Billy Campbell.
“Nan Klepper Willard, wife of George Willard, is buried in a fence row. Son is John. Probably in the 1930’s. She is buried between house and barn in a fence row. Supposedly somebody made a coffin and set it on the porch 2-3 weeks before she died. Turn left after Campbell’s Mill, go to the top of the hill, white house on right.”
This recollection is undated. Nancy Jane Klepper Willard was the wife of Joseph C. Willard (married 29 Nov 1926), not George Willard. John D. Willard was their son. Nancy was born about November 1854 and died during the latter 1930’s. No death certificate has been found. Joseph C. Willard died in 1926 and is buried at Monte Vista in Johnson City.
GPS LOCATION – +36° 13.746, -82° 27.357
LOCATION – 137 Tommy Campbell Road, Jonesborough, TN is the white house mentioned in the recollection, and was on the 30 acre parcel noted in the deeds below. The partitions and newer homes within that 30 acre tract all came at later dates. The grave actually is on the parcel currently designated as 133 Tommy Campbell Road, Washington County tax parcel 083-031.03 and owned by Lynn and Donna Williams.
Willard (Nancy Jane) Graves
DEEDS – Several deeds were reviewed, however, none mentioned a grave.
Deed Book 191, Page 89 (1932) – T. R. Morefield, et ux, to Nannie J. Willard – a 30 acre parcel.
Deed Book 209, Page 82 (1940) – John D. Willard, et ux, to Willie Ledbetter, et ux. – a 30 acre parcel, less 4 acres sold to another party. Within this deed, John states that he is the only heir of “my Mother, now deceased”.
Deed Book 211, Page 511 (1941) – Willie Ledbetter to Willie J. Goode. 30 acres less 4.
Deed Book 232, Page 487 (1945) – Willie J. Goode to H.G. & Hattie Brockus and Eula Mae Henley. 30 acres less 4. It was during the Brockus ownership that partitioning was done.
Roll 127, Image 2612 (1997) – Brockus heirs to Lynn & Donna Williams.
BURIALS – Nancy Jane Klepper Willard
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web October 2015 by Elaine Scott Cantrell and Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
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