Cemetery index

DRY CREEK CEMETERY

Turn beside Dry Creek Freewill Baptist Church, Dry Creek Rd. Johnson City, TN onto Buchannan Road. The road bears to the left, take the gravel lane to the right behind a house. The cemetery is at the of the gravel lane. There are many unmarked graves. After Row 4, the remaining graves are not in row/grave order.

GPS location:  36.13.050 N  082.24.795;   Elevation:  1825 ft.

Dry Creek Cemetery

 

NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

ROW/ GRV

COMMENTS

Butler, Delia V.

5 Jul 1919

19 Feb 1996

1/1

[Shares marker with John M. Butler]

Butler, John M.

14 May 1917

11 Mar 1993

1/2

U.S. Navy WW II [Shares marker with Delia V. Butler]

Butler, Willard W.

17 Mar 1915

4 Nov 1987

1/3

Willard Weatherby Butler, U.S. Navy WW II [Shares marker with Emma A. Butler]

Butler, Emma A.

2 Oct 1919

18 Jul 2006

1/4

Married 1-16-39 [Shares marker with Emma A. Butler]

Butler, George H.

13 Aug 1909

28 Nov 1985

1/5

[Shares marker with Bertha R. Butler]

Butler, Bertha R.

12 Jul 1914

26 Feb 2005

1/6

[Shares marker with George H. Butler]

Shell, Robert Lee

21 Oct 1938

5 Mar 1997

1/7

U.S. Army [Shares marker with Patricia Shell]

Shell, Patricia

10 Jan 1941

[No date]

1/8

[Shares marker with Robert Lee Shell]

Peters, William Ernest

Jan

Aug

1/9

[No year on the marker]

Peters, Earl

1945

1989

1/10

[Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home marker]

Peters, Willard Lee

11 Dec 1946

16 Nov 1983

1/11

Peters, Sherman L.

1940

1999

1/12

[Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home marker]

Peters, William H.

24 Oct 1909

2 Mar 1980

1/13

PFC US Army WW II [Shares marker with Thelma E. Peters]

Peters, Thelma E.

21 Apr 1914

[No date]

1/14

[Shares marker with William H. Peters]

Peters, Lola Mae

1908

2006

1/15

Peters, Jesse J.

1938

2007

1/16

[Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home marker]

Lewis, Norma J.P.

1947

2001

1/17

[Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home marker]

Peters, Homer F.

3 Oct 1903

15 Jul 1994

1/18

[Shares marker with Blanche V. Peters]

Peters, Blanche V.

22 Jul 1904

19 Jul 1969

1/19

[Share marker with Homer F. Peters]

Gilley, Gary W., Jr.

[No date]

1969

1/20

[Funeral home marker]

Story, Hugh

1918

1989

1/21

[Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home marker]

Story, Mary Lee

1952

1998

1/22

[Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home marker]

Story, Lizzie Vance

1885

1976

2/1

Story, George

1 Feb 1901

18 Aug 1959

2/2

Tennessee PVT BTRY B 51 Artillery CAC WW I

Hilton, Roy B.

21 May 1904

26 Jan 1975

2/3

[Son of William "Clint" Helton and Olga Banner]

Helton, Nora

[No date]

1960

2/4

[Funeral home marker]

Bales, James Oscar

20 Sep 1896

23 Apr 1963

2/5

PVT US Army WW I

Peters, Willard Lee

1946

1985

2/6

Peters, Mary Lee

1952

1997

2/7

[Funeral home marker]

Rodifer, Cleve

21 Apr 1943

17 Jun 1981

3/1

Howell, Martin

3 Oct 1927

1 Oct 1928

3/2

Hilton, Roy B.

1927

1927

3/3

Hylton, J.

1867

1952

3/4

Vance, William E.

7 May 1882

27 Aug 1957

3/5

Whitson, Rosa Mae

6 Jun 1930

18 Oct 1957

3/6

Vance, Mary A.

3 Feb 1896

10 Aug 1975

3/7

Glass, Michael Richard

1971

1971

3/8

[Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home marker]

Glass, [?]

[No date]

1956

3/9

[Funeral home marker; first name missing]

Vance, Mammie H.

6 Jun 1914

16 Jul 1965

3/10

Rodifer, David

26 Feb 1961

22 Dec 1975

4/1

Unknown

[No date]

[No date]

4/2

[Fieldstone; no engraving]

Hylton, Alfred

18 Aug 1899

6 Jun 1926

4/3

Son of J.T. & Renta Hylton

Hylton, R.

1881

1945

4/4

Unknown

[No date]

[No date]

4/5

[Unmarked]

Peters, Sylvia Story

10 Apr 1923

29 Mar 1970

4/6

Standifer, Geraldine S[Story] Mrs.

20 May 1937

26 Mar 1972

4/7

Peters, Thomas J.

24 Jun 1919

17 Oct 1988

4/8

Butler, Juanita

10 Jan 1943

23 Mar 1943

[Funeral home marker]

Edwards, Orville E.

1932

1969

[Erwin Memorial Funeral Home marker]

Edwards, Ruby Peters

1932

1971

[Funeral home marker]

Helton, Charles A[lbert]

[No date]

29 Sep 1918

Tenn. Pvt. 117 30 Div [Son of Isaac Helton]

Poore, [William Sam]

1906

1972

[Funeral home marker]

Poore, Bob

1846

1932

[Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home marker]

Poore, Henry

19 Oct 1924

15 Mar 1945

Tenn. Sgt. 143 Inf WW II

Poore, Lottie

2 May 1879

27 Aug 1919

Wife of Jim Poore

Poore, Susie Starnes

1854

1949

[Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home marker]

Rodefer, Floyd

[No date]

1931

[Funeral home marker]

Rodefor, J[ames].K.

1865

1940

[Funeral home marker]

Rodifer, David W.

26 Feb 1961

22 Dec 1975

Rodifer, Ike

1911

1937

Rodifer, James Isaac

1916

1936

Storey, Thomas

22 Mar 1864

19 Mar 1915

Story, J[ohn].W.

20 Nov 1876

9 Oct 1928

[Shares marker with Nancy Story]

Story, Martha F.

22 Jul 1871

29 Jan 1951

Story, Nancy

21 Feb 1865

[3 Nov]

[Shares marker with J.W. Story]

Unknown

[No date]

[No date]

[Funeral home marker almost unreadable- may be James M. Butler]

Unknown

[No date]

[No date]

[Funeral home marker unreadable]

Unknown

[No date]

[No date]

[Fieldstone]

Van[ce], Eva Story

1879

1966

[Funeral home marker

Vance, Bonnie P.

23 Dec 1920

27 Jan 1941

Transcribed, photographed and contributed for use on the Washington County TNGenWeb site by Betty Jane Hylton, Robert Shell and Donna Briggs, 13 March 2008.

Additional Information:

From Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles W. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, Vol. II, pages 128-129 with permission from Loraine Bennett Rae.

The following were found in 1977 but not in 2008:

Edwards, Reta Faye, 1970
Peters, Nora, 1883-1950
Poore, Mary G., 1889-1968
Poore, John B., 1913-1941
Poore, Jim, 1883-1951
Rodifer, James W., 10 Oct 1954 -10 Jan 1955
St. John, Charlie D., 1915-196?

Also the following are buried here:

Butler, Mary Francis, 19 Oct 1874 - 29 Apr 1938, wife of J.M. Butler; parents A.G. Wiathely & Fannie Yorese of Ohio.
Helton, Alice, 14 Sep 1869 -1 Dec 1934, parents, Robert Helton and Sarah Ann Haynes
Helton, Sarah Elizabeth, 13 Mar 1860 -18 May 1935; husband, John P. Hilton; parents, John E. Cooper and Pollie Robertson.
Hylton, John (b. NC), 18 Feb 1862 -14 Mar 1938, wife, Sarah Hylton; parents, Samuel Hylton and Ciller Honeycutt.

From Washington County, Tennessee Death Record Abstracts 1908-1916 by Eddie M. Nikazy:

Helton, John Howard, parents (pts) William Carson Helton & Bessie Marie Starnes

d. 1 Apr 1916

Dry Creek

p. 226

Miller, Matha Ellen, pts. Munro Miller & Becky McCurry

d. 19 Jul 1915

Dry Creek

p. 179

Peters, Sam R. pts. John W. Peters & Nora Michell

d. 13 May 1915

Dry Creek

p. 170

Poore, Danl, pts. James Poore & Lottie Wilson

d. 20 Apr 1915

Dry Creek

p. 162

Story, Brook, pts. Thomas A. Story & Lizzie Vance

d. 5 May 1914

Dry Creek

p. 110

Story, Frank, pts. Thomas A. Story & Lizzie Vance

d. 5 May 1914

Dry Creek

p. 110

Vance, William, pts. George Vance & Margaret McNabb

d. 12 Jun 1916

Dry Creek

p. 232

Posted 9 May 2008, M. Hougland

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