{"id":9371,"date":"2015-08-02T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T00:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/?page_id=9371"},"modified":"2015-08-02T20:34:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T00:34:44","slug":"arrington-grave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/records-data\/cemeteries\/cemeteries-of-washington-county-tennessee\/arrington-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"ARRINGTON GRAVE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tinker Deed Map<\/p><\/div>\n

Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions<\/em> by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists. Information used with the permission of Lorraine Bennett Rae.
\nFrom volume 2, page 209 \u2013 entry 70
\n\u201cLocated on the P.P. Tinker property on Roaring Creek in the 1st district of Washington County.\u00a0 It is on the left of Hwy 107\u2026.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

LOCATION<\/strong> \u2013 The exact location of this single, rock marked grave has not been found.\u00a0 From prior maps and review of a few deeds, it is believed to be near 202 Roaring Creek Road.\u00a0 Several residents of the area were canvassed and none could ever recall seeing any such marker.\u00a0 The resident of 202 was aware of the map indicator and had searched his property with no results.
\nDEEDS<\/strong> \u2013 A conveyance from Ira Green to Joseph M. Arrington (Deed Book 30, Page 348 \u2013 Nov 7, 1845 but not recorded until 1848) was for about 6 acres.\u00a0 Metes and bounds were so general that an overlay to current tax maps was not possible.\u00a0 The first call mentions the east side of Roaring Creek and Reuben Gann\u2019s stable.\u00a0 No conveyance from the Arrington family to others has been found.
\nThe Tinker family owned much of the property from Hwy 107 south along Roaring Creek, so no deeds have been concise enough to establish a location of this burial ground.
\nIt is interesting to note that in the 1850 census, one Thomas Arrington and family was enumerated next to David Seaton and Reuben Gann.\u00a0 Was Joseph the same person as Thomas, or perhaps a father or brother, who actually owned the land?\u00a0 The 1850 census shows Thomas declaring a 100 value to his land owned, however.\u00a0 No deeds were found for Reuben Gann, and the Seaton family is well established on the west side of Roaring Creek.
\nBURIALS<\/strong> \u2013 In the Bennett book, the burial is recorded as \u201cOrval J. Arrington, d May 19, 1814, aged 3\u20262\u201d\u00a0 The death date is suspect, based upon the deed history noted above.
\nIt may be that the death date should reflect 1847 \u2013 Carvings on rocks could easily allow such confusion, if the etchings were not deep enough to be clearly read.\u00a0 1847 would seem to fit the deed history a bit better.
\nNo other record for Orval J. Arrington has been found.<\/p>\n

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Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web July 2015 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
\nCopyrighted 2015 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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