{"id":3765,"date":"2012-12-24T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington2\/?page_id=3765"},"modified":"2015-01-18T13:29:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T18:29:53","slug":"edwards-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/records-data\/cemeteries\/cemeteries-of-washington-county-tennessee\/cemeteries-of-washington-county-tennessee-d-e-f\/edwards-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"EDWARDS CEMETERY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Edwards<\/a><\/p>\n

Turn left off Hwy. 91 onto Hilltop Road, take a right onto Steep Lane. The cemetery is located at the end of Steep Lane on the left side of the road, in Johnson City, Tennessee, Washington County.<\/span><\/p>\n

GPS location: 36\u00b019.56N 082\u00b019.03W<\/span><\/p>\n

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NAME<\/th>BIRTH DATE<\/th>DEATH DATE<\/th>COMMENTS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Edwards, Baby<\/td>[One date]<\/td>01 Apr 1940<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith, Annie Kathleen<\/td>26 Mar 1927<\/td>03 May 1984<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Leola V.<\/td>10 Nov 1918<\/td>[No date]<\/td>[Same stone as Ova Edwards]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Ova<\/td>23 Mar 1917<\/td>20 Jun 2000<\/td>[Same stone as Leola Edwards]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Chandler Scott<\/td>13 Sep 1945<\/td>24 Apr 1969<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Rachel B.<\/td>[One date]<\/td>Mar 1972<\/td>Infant daughter of Levi & Bessie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Infant son<\/td>[One date]<\/td>10 Jul 194?<\/td>Infant son of Ova &Leola Edwards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, J. B. <\/td>Jun 1930<\/td>30 Aug 1932<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Honeycutt, Pearl<\/td>14 Sep 1912<\/td>15 Jan 1927<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Honeycutt, Mary<\/td>1891<\/td>1937<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Sinclair<\/td>1887<\/td>1941<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Rebecca<\/td>11 Oct 1866<\/td>02 Jan 1926<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Levi<\/td>17 Sep 1858<\/td>13 Jul 1924<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Joseph H.<\/td>28 Jan 1885<\/td>18 Jul 1928<\/td>[Same stone as Marietta Edwards]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Marietta<\/td>26 Nov 1888<\/td>05 Jan 1962<\/td>[Same stone as Joseph H. Edwards]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Arlie<\/td>16 Jul 1912<\/td>27 Sep 1929<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jenkins, Josephine Edwards<\/td>15 Jun 1914<\/td>24 Jul 1935<\/td>Wife of W. P. Jenkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Kenneth N.<\/td>1924<\/td>1940<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Henry L.<\/td>1907<\/td>1974<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Levi Chandler<\/td>17 Oct 1923<\/td>11 Oct 2001<\/td>US Navy World War II
\r\n[Same headstone as Bessie L. Edwards]
\r\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Bessie L.<\/td>01 Aug 1936<\/td>[No date]<\/td>[Same headstone as Levi C. Edwards]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Canza Gouge<\/td>29 Jul 1895<\/td>13 Feb 1975<\/td>[Same stone as Ira Lee Edwards]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edwards, Ira Lee<\/td>08 Nov 1889<\/td>15 Mar 1969<\/td>[Same stone as Canza Edwards]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web March 2003 by Dawn Peters, Betty Jane Hylton and Donna Cox Briggs members of <\/span><\/span>the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Additional information<\/p>\n

From History of Washington County, Tennessee 1988<\/i> by Watauga Association of Genealogists, p. 321:
\nJoseph Henry Edwards Family
\nJoseph Henry (1885-1928), son of Levi (1858-1924), Church of the Brethren Minister, and Rebecca Shupe Edwards (1866-1926), married 1906 Marietta (188-192) daughter of James Madison (1866-1941) and Anna Bailey Byrd (1868-1945). They moved from Pigeon Roost, North Carolina bringing 7 of their 8 children: Henry Lee, Lulia (1909-1910), Cleo, Arlie, Josephine, Ova, Susie and Levi Chandler. They moved to Telford 1929, (Washington County) with 2 more children: Elizabeth Rebecca and Annie Kathleen.<\/p>\n

Marietta, widowed at 40 with 9 children to rear, supported herself and family by farming.<\/p>\n

Joseph and Marietta were buried at the Edwards Cemetery, Johnson City.<\/p>\n

Henry married Lorena Edwards Story. Cleo married Cecil Shanks. Arlie (1912-1929). Josephine married Park Jenkins. Ova married Leola Virginia Scott. Susie married Aaron Culbertson, Jr. Levi (1923) married Kathaleen Morris. Elizabeth (1925) married Wiley Greene. Annie (1927) married Bill Smith.<\/p>\n

Article by Vesta Sue Edwards Zimmerman, 1817 Jackson Rd, Kingsport, TN 37663.<\/p>\n

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