{"id":967,"date":"2012-11-01T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington2\/?page_id=967"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:08:45","slug":"bailey-cecil-cemetery-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/records-data\/cemeteries\/cemeteries-of-washington-county-tennessee\/bailey-cecil-cemetery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BAILEY-CECIL CEMETERY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bailey-Cecil Cemetery
2007<\/p><\/div>\n

Located SE of Mt. Lebanon Presbyterian Church Cemetery on the next wooded ridge across Lebanon Branch, near 496 Taylor Bridge Rd., Jonesborough, TN in the Mayberry Community. The five graves with markers have been concreted over. Six unmarked graves were found and it is possible there are others.<\/span><\/p>\n

GPS location: \u00a036.199200, -82.502960
\nElevation: 1628 ft.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
NAME<\/th>BIRTH<\/th>DEATH<\/th>COMMENT<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Bailey, G. D.<\/td>1828<\/td>1894<\/td>Shares marker with his wife Malinda Masters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bailey, Malinda Masters<\/td>1829<\/td>1908<\/td>Shares marker with G.D. Bailey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cecil, G. R.<\/td>1859<\/td>1925<\/td>Shares marker with his wife Abbie E. Bailey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cecil, Abbie E. Bailey<\/td>1873<\/td>1957<\/td>Shares marker with G. R. Bailey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bailey, Mary Nellie<\/td>05 Apr 1896<\/td>10 Oct 1904<\/td>Dau. of C.E & M.E. Bailey. [Broken and flat on the ground]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Updated with additional information by Ruth Robinson, Pamela Robinson and Betty Jane Hylton on 3 September 2007.<\/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.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

DEEDS \u2013<\/strong> <\/span>
\nDeed Book 68, Page 596 (11894) \u2013 G[arrett] D Bailey to Malinda Bailey \u2013 40 acres. Metes and bounds recorded in this deed carry forward.\u00a0 Quiet on graveyard.<\/span>
\nDeed Book 81, Page 340 (1902) \u2013 Malinda Bailey to Abbie Bailey Cecil.\u00a0 Also quiet on graveyard.<\/span>
\nDeed Book 266, Page 390 (1952) \u2013 Abbie Cecil to P[alma] L. Robinson, T.E. Robinson, and Willard Bailey.\u00a0 This deed excepts the graveyard and R.O.W. to it.<\/span>
\nDeed Book 296, Page 503 (1956) \u2013 Nora Robinson (widow of T.E. Robinson) conveys her share to Palma Robinson.\u00a0 Excepts graveyard.<\/span>
\nDeed Book 299, Page 273 and Deed Book 299, Page 275 (1956) \u2013 Convey to Palma Robinson.\u00a0 These two deeds convey life estates of Nora Robinson and Robert Francis Duff.\u00a0 R.F. Duff\u2019s mother, Charlotte was daughter of T.E. & Nora Robinson.<\/span>
\nDeed Book 332, Page 126 (1960) \u2013 Willard & Ada Bailey to Palma Robinson.\u00a0 Their undivided share of the 40 acres.\u00a0 At this point, the entire 40 acres is now in Palma Robinson, with no shares.<\/span>
\nFuture deeds have not been referenced, however, Ruth May Robinson, Palma\u2019s wife, remained owner of this and substantial other properties until her death.\u00a0 Title to the land is now held by Robinson Farms, Inc. \u00a0<\/span>
\nTechnically, the burial ground ownership remains in Abbie Cecil, who is believed to be the last burial in 1957.<\/span>
\nDeeds researched and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web March 2017 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.<\/span>
\nCopyrighted 2017 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 Some information on the web has this cemetery as two different cemeteries — The Bailey Cemetery and the Cecil Cemetery.<\/span><\/p>\n

History of Washington County, Tennessee, 1988<\/em> by the Watauga Association of Genealogists \u2013 Upper East Tennessee, p.223:<\/span><\/p>\n

“\u2026”Yellow Jacket” John [Bailey] donated the land on which the town of Burnsville now stands. His children were: Hiram, Garrett, Jefferson, Morgan, Louisa, Peggy, Elizabeth, Patty and Tempy Ann.<\/span><\/p>\n

Garrett D. Bailey married Malinda Masters. Their children: Emoline, Anna Eliza, Jacob, Aarnon, Moses, Joseph Warren, Harriet, Garrett, Honora and Abbie.”<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Federal Census, 1850 Yancey County, North Carolina [no district stated]<\/span><\/p>\n

896\/936 Bailey, Garrett D. 21, Malinda 21, Ann E. 5\/12.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Federal Census, 1910 Washington County, Tennessee, 4th<\/sup> District<\/span><\/p>\n

147\/150 Cecil, Grannette R. 51 b. VA, married 8 years; Abbie E. 36 wife b. NC, married 8 years; William C. 76, father, widower, b. VA; Matthew K. 15 son; Estella C. 15 dau.<\/span><\/p>\n

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