A former owner stated that the following people were buried there:
- Jobe Saylor
- Tobe Saylor
- Clawson Child
3 fieldstone markers
Transcribed and contribued to the Washington County TNGen Web Site 2 July 2005 by Donna Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton.
Additional information:
Military registration card, Ancestry.com
- Jobe Saylor, age 45 years, born 18 Sep 1872
- Farmer for J.A. Vines, 8th District, Johnson City, Washington County, Tenn
- Nearest Relative: Sophia Saylor
Heritage Quest: 1910 US Federal Census, Tennessee, Washington County, 9th District
88/97 Love, Conrade, head, 44, Lizzie B., wife 26, Gray, Abbie, servant 23, Saylor, Jobe, boarder 30, grocery store clerk
Heritage Quest: 1900 US Federal Census, Tennessee, Washington County, 10th District
- 33/34 Miller, Walter, head, b. Feb 1862 age 38, Julia H., wife b. Apr 1868, age 32, Wallace C., son b. Mar 1885, age 15, Clio M., dau b. Aug 1888, age 11, Ralph C., son b. Mar 1892, age 8, Jewell L., dau b. Feb 1895, age 5, Toulia, dau b. Aug 1897, age 2;
- Young, Alice, Boarder b. Mar 1869, age 31, Saylor, Tobe, Lodger b. Apr 1880, age 20, farm laborer
The graves of two or three children of George Saylor are marked with fieldstones. Information given by Argil Hunt. However the fieldstones could not be found.
Donated to the Washington County TNGenWeb Site 2 July 2005 by Donna Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton.
Turn off at 2285 Hwy 107, Chuckey, TN onto a lane. Travel
about 1/4 to 1/2 mile until the road ends at a barn. Go around the
barn and jump across a creek. Walk 300 ft. to the crest of the hill.
The graves are in a clump of trees. Thirty-five fieldstone and five
unmarked graves were found.
GPS location: 36.08N 028.34.50W Elevation:
1529 ft.
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NAME |
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DEATH |
COMMENTS |
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Seaton, Elizabeth |
1 Jan 1831 |
4 Mar 1911 |
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Seaton, John A. |
16 Jan 1822 |
12 Jul 1887 |
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Seaton, Tempa E. |
4 Sep 1854 |
20 Jan 1863 |
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[No date] |
[No date] |
[Hand hewn fieldstone] |
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W.J.S. |
[No date] |
[No date] |
[Footstone, no headstone found] |
Additional information:
Some residents of the area report that there was another cemetery with only two graves on the Seaton Farm many years ago.
Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions , by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists with permission from Loraine B. Rae.
The following markers were found in 1977 but not in 2004.
- Wm. J. Seaton, 12 Oct 1852 - 24 Jan 1863
- Mark Seaton, his wife, Hassie Tinker Seaton, [Mother of Rev. H. G. Brocus]
Horace Tinker states the following are buried in unmarked graves:
- T.P. Tinker and Annie Tinker his wife died 1903
- Burnie Tinker
- Boone Tinker
- Willie Tinker
- Ada Tinker
- Rex Tinker
- Mary Tinker
- Maud Tinker
- Jane Austin
- ? Detridge
Paul Painter states that the following are buried here:
- Phillip Parks Tinker
- Anne Graham
- McBurnie Tinker
- Margaret Jane Seaton Aston, 1835 - 1919 married 6 Dec 1860 Wm. Henry Aston
- Margaret Jane was the daughter of David and Alice Green Seaton.
- William Henry was the son of John Aston and Mary.
1850 Census Washington County, TN, 14 Nov 1850
- 14/80/1512 Seaton, David 51 b. TN, Alice 48, Jesse G. 25, Rebecca 2, Robert N. 18, Jacob M. 17, Margaret J. 14, Mariah 8, Martha A. 6
- 1484/1516 Seaton, John A. 28 b. TN, Elizabeth 18 b. TN
1860 Census Washington County, TN
- #14 Seaton, John A. 39, Elizabeth 29, William J. 7, Tempe E. 5
- #32 Aston, Henry 25
- #984 Tinker, Philip P. 28, Ann H. 20, Margaret 3, James H. 1
1870 Census Washington County, TN, Dist. 1
- #13 Seaton, John 46, Elizabeth 38
- #15 Seaton, Allace 57, Rebecca 31, Robert M. 30, Jacob M. 27, Margaret 24, Mark l. 18, Martha A. 16
- #20 Astan, Wm. H. 35, M.J. 24, P.S. 2
1870 Census Washington County, TN, Dist. 18
#3 Tinker, Phillip 39, Ann H. 31, Margaret 12, James 10, John M. 8, Mary A. 6, Phillip 3, Sarah D. 1
1880 Census Washington County, TN, Dist. 1
- #24/24 Seaton, John A. 58, Elizabeth 48
- #25/25 Seaton, Mark L. 38, Jane 36, Mary P. 11, Dora M. 9, David M. 7 Ruben C. 5, Sarah A. 3, Babe 1/12 (m)
- #21/21 Tinker, Philip P. 49, Ann H. 43, John M. 18, Mary A. 15, Philip 13, Sarah D. 11, William 9, Jacob 7, Barnett 5, McBurney 2
Family Search, http://www.familysearch.org, visited 5 Dec 2004
Individual Record for Philip Parks Tinker
- Birth: 1831 Washington Co. TN
- Death: Aft 1880, Washington Co. TN
- Burial: Seaton Farm Cem. Painter Creek, Washington Co. TN
- Father: James A. Tinker
- Mother: Nancy A. Parks
Spouse: Ann Hessaltine Graham, B. 8 Jan 1857, Erwin, Washington Co. Tn (Unicoi). Married 8 Jan 1857; died 1903; buried Seaton Farm Cem. Painter Creek, Washington Co. TN. Dau. of John Graham and Mary Bayless.
Children: Margaret Tinker b. 1857; James Franklyn Tinker b. 1859; Mary Hessaltine Tinker b. 1865, buried Seaton Farm Cem. Painters Creek, Washington Co. TN; Philip Parks Tinker b. 1867; William E. Tinker, b. 1871, buried Seaton Farm Cem. Washington Co. TN; Sarah Deliah Tinker b. 1870; McBurnie Tinker b. 1878, buried Seaton Farm Cem. Washington Co. TN; Jacob B. Tinker b. 1873; John Marion Tinker b. 1861; Barnett Ray Tinker; David Boone Tinker b. 1880, buried Seaton Farm Cem. Washington Co. TN.
Washington County Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872 by Goldene Burgner
p.73 James Tinker May 1, 1866
Wife Nancy. Two sons: Philip P. & Jesse P. Tinker - to have farm and pay 1/3 proceeds to my wife Nancy and minor children. Executors: Sons Philip P. & Jesse P. Tinker. Wit.: William Parks, J.B. Erwin. Probated October Term, 1866. Signed: James Tinker.
Washington County Tennessee Marriages 1780-1870 by Goldene Burgner
- John A. Seaton to Elizabeth Bayles, m. 17 Aug 1848 by Jacob F. Broyles, J.P.
- Philip P. Tinker to A.H. Graham, md. 8 Jan 1857 by Reuben Bayless, M.G.
- Mark L. Seaton to Elizabeth J. Painter, md. 6 Jan 1867 by William B. Seaton, J.P.
More information on the John Aston Family is found in History of Washington County Tennessee, 1988, by the Watauga Association of Genealogists, p.479.
GPS location: 36.21.53N 082.23.22W |
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- *Sell, Adam, 1801-1874 [**Married Margaret Miller 20 June 1822]
- Sell, Alice, Dec. 7, 1872-May 24, 1944
- Sell, Callie A., Nov. 29, 1869-Mar. 6, 1953
- Sell, Edna, Apr. 11, 1885-Nov. 23, 1960
- Sell, Hattie Trephenia, Sept. 13, 1879-July 26, 1928
- Sell, Infant of Joseph & Margaret Sell, born Oct. 1886
- Sell, Joseph, 1847-1923 [*Married Margaret Longmire, 17 Sept. 1868]
- Sell, Margaret, 1846-1919 [Wife of Joseph Sell]
- Sell, Mary C., Feb. 9, 1878-Feb. 24, 1952
- Sell, Minnie, Sept. 14, 1880-Feb. 8, 1882
- Margaret Sell, 1805-1887 [Adam Sell m. Margaret Miller, June 18, 1822]
- It [the cemetery] is on the tract of land purchsed by John Miller about 1788 and which came into the possession of his son-in-law, Adam Sell, when Catherine, the widow of John Miller died about 1844, leaving the homeplace to her daughter, Margaret, and son-in-law Adam Sell.
- John Miller, ca 1764-ca 1822, and his wife Catherine Bowman were married June 8, 1789, in Rockingham Couty, VA (Caty Boughman). She was the dau. of Jacob and Susannah Milhouse Bowman. After the death of Jacob, Susannah who was called "Granny Milhouse, married Rev. Isaac Hammer. Margaret Miller and her husband Adam Sell called 'the German' and reportedly from Hanover County, Penn. lived with her mother, Catherine after the death of her father.
- There is no formal marker for John and Catherine Bowman Miller; however descendants have been told that they are buried here along with some of their twelve children. The only marked graves of their children are those of Margaret Miller Sell and Catherine Miller Young.
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The cemetery is located in the Nolichucky River Valley, on the Clarence Bolton farm, 224 Charlie Carson Road, off Tennessee Highway 107. The cemetery has been mowed and planted with daylilies but the stones are very old and hard to read. On Sunday, June 24, 2001, The Sevier Family Association dedicated a marker to James and Nancy Conway Sevier and their family. |
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Additional Information:
The following information is from Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, vol. III, p.210-211 with permission from Loraine Rae.
A tomb walled with cut limestone, covered by a slab stone about three by six feet, the walls crumbling, the slab and inscriptions still intact.
Sacred -The Memory of Infant Children, 3 sons & 1 daughter of E.F. & M.D. Sevier.
A tomb walled with cut limestone, covered by a slab stone about three by six feet, the walls crumbling. The slab and part of inscriptions badly shattered, also a headstone in good condition.
In Memory of Nancy Sevier, died July 15, 1843, aged (71 or 79) years, 3m 23d (from the headstone) born in Virginia, March (2 or 3) _______
A tomb walled with cut limestone, covered by a slab stone about three by six feet, the walls crumbling, the slab and part of inscriptions shattered.
_____ _____ born in Virginia, on the __ October 1764, and departed this life on the 21 of January, ____, aged 82y 2m (27?)d
A tomb walled with cut limestone, covered by a slab stone about three by six feet, the walls crumbling,, the slab stone badly eroded andparts shattered.
_________ ___nston, departed this life __ of January ____ __years
A cut headstone: Died on the 15th of Feb 1843, Two Infants, son and daughter of James B. & Mary M. Sevier.
From Notable Southern Families by Armstrong, p.192:
James Sevier, 2nd son and 2nd child of Governor John Sevier and his first wife, Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was born in Augusta County Virginia, on October 25, 1764; he died in Washington County Tenn. On January 21, 1847. He married, March 25, 1789, Nancy Conway, born March 22, 1772. She was the daughter of Col. Henry Conway, born 1749, died 1812. James Sevier was at the Battle of Kings Mountain with his father when he was not quite sixteen years old; he also followed his father in other engagements.
James Sevier was clerk of the Washington County Court for forty-seven years. James Sevier and wife, Nancy Conway, had eleven children:
(1) Elizabeth Conway Sevier, b July 9, 1790, m. James S. Johnston, 3/8/1810.
(2) Sarah Hundley Sevier, b July 22, 1792, m. Hugh Doulas Hale, 1/11/1810
(3) Maria Antoinette Sevier, b May 12, 1794, d at age 2.
(4) Minerva Grainger Sevier, b May 30, 1796, m. John Nelson, 4/30/1816
(5) Pamela Hawkins Sevier, b March 15, 1798, m. Alexander M. Nelson, 5/6/1817
(6) Susannah Brown Sevier, b June 25, 1800, m. Richard B. Purdom, 11/26/1818
(7) Elbert Franklin Sevier, b Sept 17, 1802, m Matilda Powell, Aug 9, 1832. In addition to the children buried in this cemetery, they had a son, Elbert Powell Sevier, who married and had a son, James. Elbert F. and Matilda also had a daughter, Sarah, who died with her mother, Matilda, in Knoxville in 1854 of cholera. Elbert F. married for his second wife, Eliza James, a daughter of Rev. Jessee James, of Chattanooga, and they had a son, James Sevier.
(8) Elbridge Gerry Sevier, b March 19, 1805, m. Mary Caroline Brown, 11/13/1827
(9) Clarissa Carter Sevier, b April 9, 1807, m. (1) John Jones, 5/7/822, m.2. Dr. John Calhoun, 10/13/1847
(10) Louisa Maria Sevier, b Dec 16, 1811, m. James H. Jones, 10/16/1827
(11) Mary Malvina Sevier, b April 4, 1814, m. James Stuart, 7/2/1829
From Tombstone Inscriptions & Historical Manuscripts by Acklen, p.222:
The following inscriptions are in the Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Tenn.:
Mary M. Stuart, dau of James and Mary Sevier, April 8, 1814 ’Äì Feb 2, 1887
Matilda D., dau of Rev. E.E. Sevier, Sept 3, 1854, age 10 years [should this be Rev. E.F.?]
The preceding records show that James and Mary Sevier had children buried beside the children of Elbert Franklin and Matilda Sevier in both the Washington County and the Knoxville cemeteries, yet the dates indicate that James was neither brother nor son of Elbert F. Who were James B and Mary Sevier? The dates of the Knoxville stone of Mary M. Stuart, dau of James and Mary Sevier are almost identical with the birth date of Mary Malvina Sevier who married James Stuart, who are given as the daughter and son-in-law of James Sevier and wife, Nancy. I have been unable to straighten out the relationship.[CMB=the late Charles M. Bennett]
More information about his family can be found in Sevier Family History by Cora Boles Sevier and Nancy S. Madden, ©1961 and The History of Washington County, Tennessee,1988 by the Watauga Association of Genealogists, ©1988.
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A resident of the Telford area pointed out where he had been told was the location of Sarah Hawkins Sevier's grave. It is located behind the barn in a clump of trees and bushes on the Southwest end of Wassom Ridge, 220 yards from the Norfork-Southern railroad tracks, due North of the Embree Stone House and 200 yards East of Paynetown Rd., Telford, TN. GPS location: 36.14.48N 082.33.63W Elevation: 1571 ft.
Tennessee Historical Marker 1 A 29 for Thomas Embree indicates that she is buried nearby the Embree house. Additional Information:
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References:
History of Washington County, Tennessee, compiled by Joyce and W. Eugene Cox, © 2001.
Knows Southern History, http://knowsouthernhistory.net/Biographies/John_Sevier/
The Overmountain Men by Pat Alderman, ©1970
Sevier Family History by Cora Bales Sevier and Nancy S. Madden, ©1961
SEVIERS METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY
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