{"id":6651,"date":"2013-08-09T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/?page_id=6651"},"modified":"2015-01-18T13:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T18:31:47","slug":"keys-john-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/records-data\/cemeteries\/cemeteries-of-washington-county-tennessee\/cemeteries-of-washington-county-tennessee-h-i-j-k\/keys-john-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"KEYS (JOHN) CEMETERY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keys (John) Cemetery
2004<\/p><\/div>\n

Located across the road from 176 Malone Hollow Road in the Jonesborough area of Washington County, TN. The cemetery is overgrown and in need of attention. There were at least 5 fieldstones marking graves and obvious unmarked graves. There are two marked graves outside of the fence and it is possible there are unmarked graves.<\/span><\/p>\n

GPS Location: 36\u00ba19.30N 082\u00ba27.25W;\u00a0 Elevation: 1668 ft.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
NAME<\/th>BIRTH DATE<\/th>DEATH DATE<\/th>COMMENTS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Keys, Nancy Jane <\/td>[About 1843]<\/td>[About 1852]<\/td>Daughter of John & Betsey Keys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Keys, John <\/td>22 Jun 1814<\/td>21 Mar 1898<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Keys, John S. <\/td>18 Oct 1845<\/td>17 Jul 1911<\/td>Co. D, 8th Regt. Tenn. Cav. Vols. [Very large zinc marker] <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Keys, Nellie Fine <\/td>16 Nov 1902<\/td>03 Mar 1907<\/td>Daughter of Jno. S. & M. J. Keys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Keys, Elizabeth <\/td>04 May 1814<\/td>06 May 1875<\/td>[Stone is broken]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Keys, Elizabeth <\/td>05 May 1814<\/td>09 Nov 1869<\/td>Wife of John Keys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Depew, John E. <\/td>15 Apr 1872<\/td>18 Oct 1901<\/td>[Stone is outside the fenced area]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Myers, Manerva <\/td>30 Sep 1835<\/td>25 May 1893<\/td>[Stone is outside the fenced area]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web February 2004<\/span> by Donna Cox Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Additional Information:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1850 Census of Washington County<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

#250-261 KEYS, John 60 born in PA, Elizabeth 36 TN, Jeremiah 34, Archibald 31, Nancy 28, Sarah 14, Eliza 12, Elijah 10, William 5<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

1860 Census of Washington County<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

#1017 KEYS, John Jr. 45, Elizabeth 45, James 19, John T. 15<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

#1018 KEYS, John Sr. 70, Elizabeth 46, Nancy 37, Archibald 35, Elijah D. 20, William H. 15, Landon 6<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

# 305-305 MYERS, William, age 24, born TN, Minerva, age 24, born TN, Enos, age 2, born TN, Nancy E., age 5\/12. born TN; KING, Phoebe, age 62, born NC<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1870 Census of Washington County <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

KEYS, Elizabeth 56, Landon 16; JENKINS, Amanda 38 (domestic servant)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1880 Census of Washington County<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Dist. 11, 10 June 1880,<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

# 175-175 DEPEW, Robert E., age 38, born TN; Anna H., 37, wife, (sick) born TN; Elbert N., age 13 , son, born TN; Lora E., age 12, daughter, born TN; John E., age 10, son, born TN; Ida A, age 3, daughter, born TN<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dist 11, 12 June 1880<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

# 186-186 MYERS, Minerva, age 44, Mother, widow, born TN; John, age 18 , son, born TN<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1900 Washington County, TN Census, <\/b>Dist 15<\/span><\/p>\n

# 176-194 DEPEW, Robert E., age 58, born May 1842, married 34 years; Annie H. , age 57, born Sept. 1842, married, 34 years, mother of 6, 4 living; Ida A., age 23 born Mar 1877; Thomas E., age 19, born June 1880, single; Ethel J., age 10, born Dec. 1889, granddaughter.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Washington County, Tennessee Marriages<\/b><\/i>, <\/b>by Goldene Burgner:<\/span><\/p>\n

William Myers to Minerva Hale 5 May 1857, R. S. Ferguson, JP.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Washington County Wills<\/b><\/i>, by Goldene Burgner, page 52:<\/span><\/p>\n

21 Dec. 1852 John Kincheloe<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wife Sarah – my yellow girl Harriet. Oldest daughter Mary Hunt and her bodily heirs – 61 acres I bought of Benjamin Hale. Mary’s husband Uriah Hunt may for a wright to land. Youngest daughter Clary Jones – the Nicholas Hale tract. Youngest son James Kincheloe – 100 acres of the homeplace. Son Enos – 100 acres adjoining tract he got of George Kincheloe. Daughter Elizabeth Keese – to have and equal part. To John Hale, if he stays with his grandmother – a horse, saddle and $18. Minerva Hale – cow and calf. Railroad stock to be divided among my heirs. Executors; Enos and James Kincheloe, Wit.: R. L. Stanford, B. Ballenger. signed John Kinceheloe<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jonesboro Herald-Tribune<\/b><\/i>, V. IV, #34, May 13, 1875<\/i>. Died: Two miles north of this place last Thursday, Mrs. Elizabeth Keys, widow of the late John Keys, of paralysis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonesboro Herald-Tribun<\/b><\/i>e V. XXIV #9, June 2, 1892<\/i>. Death: Mrs. Minerva Myers, two miles northeast of town, died Wednesday morning at 1 o’clock and was buried on the Keener farm Wed. afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonesboro Herald-Tribune<\/b><\/i> V. XXXIII #30, November 13, 1901<\/i>. In Memoriam: John Elery Depew was born in Washington County, Tenn., April 15, 1872; and died in Amarillo, Texas, October 18, 1901, age 29 years, 6 months and 3 days. He was converted at the age of 21 at Marvin Chapel, a church near his home, he went and joined the United Presbyterian Church. He was a fireman on a freight train at his death, being killed in a freak accident from a wreck. He leaves a father, mother, two brothers and one sister. His remains were accompanied home by a Mr. Green, one of John’s best friends and laid to rest in the family burying ground, beside two sisters which had preceded him in death.<\/span><\/p>\n

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