RADER - HISE/HICE CEMETERY   Located between 3003 and 3005 McKinley Road, Johnson City, TN. It is overgrown, fieldstones have been removed and there are markers missing from previous surveys. Remaining tombstones have been piled up around a large flat slab over a rectangular low box tomb. Railroad ties are dividing the upper section from the lower section of the cemetery. There appears to be graves right up to the edge of the road. Note: As of 2007, the cemetery has been cleaned up significantly. GPS location: 36.18.32N 082. 24.27W; Elevation: 1813 feet

NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	COMMENT
Smith, Martha Hise	30 Jan 1878	3 Jul 1902	Wife of W.R. Smith. In Memory of Mother and Babe
Erwin, Dicie	22 Oct 1799	16 Mar 1909
Kelley, Sarah Ann Hise	3 Feb 1834	11 [May] 1857	W[ife of] Wm. Kelley. Aged 22 year [?] Mo 12 Days "Our Sarah" A large flat maker over a box tomb
C Cxx C	23 Oct 1797	22 Apr 1812	[Could be a Casady]

Transcribed and contributed for use on the Washington County TNGenWeb site and in the USGenWeb Archives, 26 June 2004 by Joyce Harper, Frances Berry, Dawn Peters, Donna Briggs & Betty Jane Hylton

RANGE (PETER) CEMETERY

Located at the intersection of Springbrook Drive and Oakland Avenue, Johnson City, TN. An office complex has been built near the cemetery.

GPS location: 36.21.29N 082.22.35W

Our Sister, Louisa Range, Born Aug 26, 1823, Died Feby __ 1884. [H.C. Remine, Limestone, Tenn. was the maker of this marker]

 

In Memory of Our Father, [Jacob] Range, Born Jan 9, 1790, Died Oct 15, 1876, Aged 86 y, 9 mo., & 6d.

 

Our Mother, Susan Range, Born Sept 1795, Died Ap. 29, 1870, Aged 74 yrs. 5mo. & 29 days

 

Benn Harrison Shipley, Born June 23, 1891, Died Aug 28, 1897

 

P RANGE D, Oct 10, 1817

 

In 1957 another marker was recorded: R.H. Shipley, March 27, 1834-May 31, 1887

Transcribed and contributed by Bob and Betty Jane Hylton, January 23, 1999.

Additional information:

History of Washington County Tennessee, 1988, by the Watuaga Association of Genealogists, p. 155:

The Peter Range, Sr. House is located at 2833 East Oakland Avenue, Johnson City (lower Knob Creek). The house is of stone exterior and interior walls with the stone chimney at either end of the house. There are four fireplaces. The full basement shows evidence of having been used as part of the original house. The frame additions, built at a much later date, hide the original character of the house. The Range Cemetery is about 150 feet from the rear of the house. Peter Range, Sr. and other members of the Range family were buried in this cemetery.

Peter Range, Sr. (1749-1817) of German descent, was born in Somerset County, New Jersey. His wife was Elizabeth Ronimus. Peter and Elizabeth came to Washington County after the birth of their first child, Elizabeth Range, born 1777, who married Jacob Miller. Peter purchased land from Pharoah Cobb and built their first home, a two-story log structure. He later purchased land from John Engle, Solomon Hendrix, Abraham Cox, John Hammer and Samuel Denton. On the properly purchased form John Hammer in 1804, he built the present stone house and girst mill. The house is one of the few remaining three-floor homes of the early 19th Century.

Information from Ronald Akers:

In his 1951 book, Ancestral Sketches, LeRoy Reeves* described the Range Cemetery as follows:

"I visited the cemetery in 1913. It was in a meadow, on a knoll above a ledge of rocks, about 100 yards southeast of the house [Peter Range Sr. stone house], inclosed [sic] by a dilapidated fence, and considerably grown up in saplings and thorn-bushes. The older part of the cemetery consisted of three rows of graves, twenty-five in all, mostly marked by unlettered limestone headstones. The grave of Peter Range was fourth from the south in the second row; that of his wife [Elizabeth Ronimus by oral history] to his left. In the third or easterly row, in order, beginning at the south, were marble tombstones of Louisa G. [should be E. for Elizabeth] Range (1823-1884), Jacob Range [son of Peter Sr.] (1790-1876) and Susan [or Susannah] [Hale] Range (1790-1870), parents and daughter [should be daughter and parents], and beyond them three graves understood to be those of the triplet children [Elizabeth and two others, b. 20 Feb 1818] of Jacob and Susan Range.

I visited the place again in 1947. The cemetery fence was gone, the cemetery grown up and trampled by cattle, the marble tombstones broken in pieces and scattered. There among the forgotten graves of his contemporaries and the fragments of the monuments of his descendants, the small headstone of Peter Range [Sr.] still stood bravely as it had stood for more than a hundred years; where one might kneel and with difficulty decipher the crude lettering: P. Range, Oct. 10, 1817, In Memory."

I [Ronald L. Akers] visited the cemetery in October 1998 and copied the following differences which could be added to the website. They are:

For Louisa Range: her date of death was 11 Feb 1884 and that her stone had the following inscription: "In life loved, in death lamented" H.C. Bowman, Limestone, Tenn.
For Susan Range: same change of death date as above.
For Benjamin Harrison Shipley: his stone had the following inscription: "Adieu Untill [sic] we meet again"

[ ] notations by the submitter, Ronald L. Akers, 2061 Vandenberg Ave., Riverside, CA 92518-2889, rlmlakers@earthlink.net. Grx3 gdson of Peter Sr.

*The Reeves line appears to have married into the DeVault family which married in early times with the Range family. RLA

REASONER CEMETERY   Located approximately 2/3rd up the wooded, steep hill behind Building #7 of Doe River Apartments on Dave Buck Rd., Johnson City, TN. The cemetery has been fenced at one time by evidence of old fence posts and bits of wire. Faded surveyors tape indicated that it has been surveyed in recent years. Brush and vines are in the center of the cemetery. GPS location: 36.18.99 N 082.19.30 W; Elevation: 1756 ft.

No legible markers were found.

 

Surveyed, photographed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web Site 9 Jan 2006 by Chester Willis, Jan Clark, Donna Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton.

 

Additional information:

 

Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, 1977 with permission from Lorraine B. Rae.

 

Located Southeast of Johnson City on land originally granted to Joseph Tipton on Oct. 13, 1782 by the state of North Carolina. In 1828, the Reasoners sold the land to Wm. Stover. Copied by Mary Hardin McCown.

Old rock:

MA ED

FEBT &endash;

1820

 

East Tennessee Tax Records Index, Volume I: Washington County 1778-1821, compiled by Geoffrey D. Rasmussen. 2005

Garnet Reasoner appears in the 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793 and 1795 list.

 

History of Washington County Tennessee 1988, by the Watauga Association of Genealogists, page 423:

Solomon Miller first married Barsheba Reasoner, April 22, 1813, Carter County, TN, daughter of Garrett Reasoner.

 

Washington County, Tennessee Marriages 1780-1870, by Goldene F. Burgner, 1985:

Page 4: 23 Apr 1793 Ganett Reasoner to Margaret Rennor by Joseph Tipton

Page 10: 20 May 1813 Nicholas Reasoner to Polly Miller by Jacob Miller

 

The Miller Family of Knob Creek Washington County, Tennessee, by Jeanne Lyle Sell, 1985.

Page 41: Solomon Miller (10-18-1792 &endash; 8-31-1875) married the first time 4-22-1813 in Carter County, TN to Barsheba Reasoner who was the daughter of Garrett Reasoner, and a sister of Nicholas Reasoner who married Solomon's sister Mary (Polly) Miller.

 

Page 44: Mary Reasoner VS Nicholas Reasoner Saturday 31st December 1836, a suit for divorce in Monroe County, Tennessee.

 

Transcribed and contributed for use on the Washington County TNGenWeb Site and in the USGenWeb Archives, February 2002 by Dawn Peters and Betty Jane Hylton.

Additional information

From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists, vol. III, p.123 with permission from Loraine B. Rae and Dessie L. Simmons.

Susan Miller, wife of Solomon Miller was Bowman.

Julia A. Miller, wife of John W. Reed was the daughter of John, Jr. & Mary Kelly Miller.

Mollie Little was Mary Susan, daughter of John K. & Nancy Miller. She and her husband, John Little were 2nd cousins, great grandchildren of John and Catherine Bowman Miller. Mollie through their son, John and John, her husband, through their son Henry Miller. After Mollie's death, John Little married Mary Carper in 1909; they are both buried in the Onks Cemetery near Jonesborough.

Eliza G, Edward L, Harrace S. Maurice and Charles E. Little were children of John and Mollie Little.

Buried here in unmarked graves:

John Miller, Jr. and his wife, Mary Kelly Miller (probably, since this was their land)

John K. Miller, son of John and Mary, who died from pneumonia soon after being discharged from the Confederate Army in 1863. His widow, Nancy Jane Branscom Miller, was the daughter of Nancy Jane and Isaac Branscom, married 29 Jul 1869 to James H. McIntyre.

 

 

[CARR-] REEVES CEMETERY

ROYSTON (JOSHUA) CEMETERY

Located on Bowmantown Church Rd., Greene County, TN, in a pasture field just before the Washington County line.

Additional information:

Family tradition says that a slave who was killed by being struck in the head with a hammer is also buried here.

1850 Census Washington County, TN

#2142/2188 Royston, Joshua 85 b. MD, Elizabeth 65 b. VA, Augustus 26 b. TN teacher, Cicero 23 b. TN physician.

1860 Census Washington County, TN

#1234 Royston, Elizabeth G. 75.

Transcribed by Donna Briggs, July 2002.

ROWE CEMETERY From Watauga Road, Johnson City, TN, turn onto Roweland Drive. Located at the end of the parking lot for Abrasive Technology Manf, Inc. ,168 Roweland Dr., Johnson City, TN. The back of the old Barnes Elementary School building can be seen from the cemetery. The cemetery is in the far corner of the field on the right and can be seen from the parking lot. It is fenced in and overgrown (2004). GPS Location: 36.21.09N 082.18.65W

NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	COMMENTS
Arnold, Mrs. D.M.	Dec. 2, 1890	Feb. 24, 1924
Barnes, Hazel	Nov. 21, 1908	Sept. 24, 1912	Daughter of W.M. and Lucy Barnes
Barnes, Leuttia Saylor	1881	1930	[Mother]
Barnes, Robert Bunch	1873	1929	[Father]
Barnes, S.B.	Sept. 24, 1867	Nov. 15, 1921	Age 54 yrs. 1 mo. 22 da
Brown, Mary Shell	November 20, 1873	Dec. 22, 1946	Dau. of William and Eliza Stepp.
Carrier, Susan Elizabeth Stepp	Jan. 24, 1878	June 30, 1898	[Wife of O.R. Carrier; Dau. of Jno. W. and A.L. Stepp.]
Culbert, Eliza Stepp	Dec. 16, 1854	Aug. 28, 1928	Mother
Deakins, Cora V.	June 3, 1886	Sept. 7, 1908	Wife of Wm. J. Deakins
Haun, Mary Barnes	Dec. 27, 1860	July 31, 1923
Hull, Felicia P.	Aug. 28, 1849	Jan. 4, 1907	Wife of Wm. C. Sutphin
Humphrey, Mattie L. Stepp	Nov. 27, 1876	Sept. 25, 1904	Wife of Chas. Humphrey
Leonard, Jacob J.S.M.	June 21, 1879	May 20, 1880	Aged 10m 29d
Stepp, John William	Mar. 26, 1851	Mar. 4, 1901
Sutphin, Felica Hull	29 Aug 1849	4 Jan 1907	[Wife of W.M.C. Sutphin]
8 unmarked or unreadable stones

Found in 1977 but not in 2004:

Gouge, Lottie, 15 Jul 1876 - 1 Oct 1921

Leonard, James A., 1 Nov 1824 - 28 Jul 1875

Rowe, Dora Leonard, 3 Apr 1876 - 4 May 1904

Rowe, Hugh Thomas, 21 Jun 1899 - 12 Nov 1936

Transcribed and contributed for use on the Washington County TNGenWeb Site and in the USGenWeb Archives, 7 May 2004 by Donna Briggs, Bob Shell, Elaine Cantrell & Betty Jane Hylton.

RYAN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CEMETERY   The graves are located approximately 275 yards off Malone Hollow Rd., Jonesborough, TN behind the second house in a wooded area on the property formerly owned by the late Jake Leonard. Twenty-nine graves unmarked and marked with a fields stone were found. One old funeral home marker was located but no writing remained. GPS location: 36.19.46N 082.27.22; Elevation: 1636 ft.

If anyone can identify persons buried here, please contact Betty Jane Hylton.

Transcribed, photographed and contributed to the Washington County TNGen Web Page 2 May 2005 by James Brooks, Ron Campbell, Jackie Peters, Dawn Peters, Chester Willis and Betty Jane Hylton. Posted 12 Nov 2005

Additional Information:

The late Catherine Malone told a neighbor that she remembered the deceased being brought in a purple hearse.

Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and Watauga Association of Genealogists, Vol. III, p.324, used with permission from Loraine B. Rae. 1930 Washington County Check List

RYAN&emdash;Negro&emdash;3 ? mi NE Jonesboro on the Jake Leonard farm I the 15th District. This is a small private cemetery. It has been abandoned for several years and is grown up in weeds, honeysuckle vines, etc.

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