{"id":5840,"date":"2013-04-19T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/?page_id=5840"},"modified":"2015-01-18T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T18:33:02","slug":"norris-joseph-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/records-data\/cemeteries\/cemeteries-of-washington-county-tennessee\/cemeteries-of-washington-county-tennessee-l-m-n\/norris-joseph-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"NORRIS (JOSEPH) CEMETERY"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Norris<\/a>

Norris (Joseph) Cemetery
2005<\/p><\/div>\n

Located off Mosely Rd., Gray, Tennessee behind a fenced Washington County Highway Department gravel area, next to the Washington County Solid Waste\/Recycling Center at 160 Mosely Rd. Gray, TN. The cemetery is fenced.<\/p>\n

GSP Location: 36\u00ba<\/span>23.99 N 082\u00ba<\/span>28.77 W; Elevation: 1605 ft.<\/p>\n

There are approximately ten graves, six with field stones, one with a Hamlett-Dobson funeral home marker with all the letters missing, except a birth date of 1903 and three unmarked graves.<\/p>\n

Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web April 2005 by Donna Cox Briggs, Jan Clark, Chester Willis, Bob Shell and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Copyrighted 2013<\/span><\/span> 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

An older resident of the community stated that she personally knew four of the peopled buried in the Norris Cemetery. They were Joe Norris, his wife, nicknamed Sis and their two sons, Buck and Sam.<\/p>\n

1870 Census of Washington County, TN<\/i>, District 12, Buffalo Ridge P. O. page 296<\/p>\n

#43-43<\/p>\n

NORRIS, Harden 66<\/p>\n

Julia A. 39<\/p>\n

Joseph 7<\/p>\n

James 5<\/p>\n

White 3<\/p>\n

Louisa 1<\/p>\n

1900 Census of Washington County, TN<\/i>, 12th<\/sup> District, page 176<\/p>\n

#66-68<\/p>\n

NORRIS, Joseph B. 37 head born Jan 1863<\/p>\n

Lydia V. 30 wife born Feb 1870<\/p>\n

Joseph L. 13 son born Mar 1887<\/p>\n

Hattie 10 dau born Oct 1889<\/p>\n

James 8 son born Aug 1891<\/p>\n

Martha 5 dau born Aug 1894<\/p>\n

Ephriam B. 3 son born Sep 1897<\/p>\n

1910 Census of Washington County, TN<\/i>, District 12, page 19<\/p>\n

#133-135<\/p>\n

NORRIS, James [sic] B. 47 (second marriage)<\/p>\n

Lydia V. 42 (first marriage, mother of nine children, eight living)<\/p>\n

Hattie 21<\/p>\n

James M. 18<\/p>\n

Martha E. 16<\/p>\n

Ephriam B. 14<\/p>\n

Elbert 12<\/p>\n

Samuel H. 6<\/p>\n

Susan 4<\/p>\n

1920 Census of Washington County, TN<\/i>, District 12, page 196<\/p>\n

# 8-8<\/p>\n

NORRIS, Joseph 56<\/p>\n

Lydia V. 52<\/p>\n

James O. 27<\/p>\n

Ephraim B. 23<\/p>\n

Elbert 19<\/p>\n

Samuel H. 17<\/p>\n

Susan 13<\/p>\n

Gertrude 9<\/p>\n

NORRIS, Bessie M. 19 (daughter-in-law)<\/p>\n

1930 Census of Washington County, TN<\/i>, District 12, page 30<\/p>\n

#18-18<\/p>\n

NORRIS, Joe B. 65<\/p>\n

Gertie 19<\/p>\n

John (gr\u2019son) 2 (2 years and unknown months, [illegible])<\/p>\n

Washington County, TN Marriages, 1780-1870<\/i>, by Goldene F. Burgner<\/p>\n

6 Feb 1862 Harden Norris to Julia Riffey, 5 Feb 1862, L. Bowers, J.P.<\/p>\n

Washington County Tennessee Marriage Records 1871-1899<\/i>, by Watauga Association of Genealogists Northeast Tennessee.<\/p>\n

03 Apr 1888 J.B. Norris to Lydia V. Nelson, 02 Apr 1888, Geo. R. Duncan<\/p>\n

\u00a0Return to index<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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