EBENEZER METHODIST CEMETERY
(Westland Drive east of Ebenezer Road and east of Ebenezer Cemetery)

Compiled and contributed by David Donahue 

          This cemetery is on the former site of Ebenezer Methodist Church on Westland Drive just east of Ebenezer Road. In 1989 the old church building was occupied by Tree of Life Baptist Church. In 1997 the old church building was occupied by Victory Chapel Baptist Church. To some extent this cemetery is like an extension to the adjacent Ebenezer Cemetery; several family names are found in both. Burials here began in 1940 after the older cemetery was nearly full. This cemetery was recorded on March 4, 1989. The typed transcription was checked on April 9, 1989. Updated January 20, 1997.

          This cemetery was recorded in 1964 by Roscoe C. d'Armand, Virginia d'Armand, and Glenn L. Loy as part of their record of the adjacent Ebenezer Cemetery. Roscoe C. d'Armand's typed compilation is available in Miscellaneous Knox County Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. 1, a manuscript available in the McClung Collection of the Knox County Library, Knoxville, Tennessee. It was also recorded in 1956 by Ann J. Smith and Eldah Bell Amick. Their record appears in Knox County Cemetery Records, Vol. 2, a manuscript available in the McClung Collection of the Knox County Library. The Smith and Amick record is of lesser value because their notes for this and the adjacent Old Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery got scrambled. Names of people buried here are recorded as part of Old Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery and a page of their Old Cedar Springs notes was typed for Ebenezer Methodist Church. These earlier compilation were compared with the new listing; notes are included where appropriate.

 

Baker, Bobby E., 5/2/1952-7/12/1992

Beal, Mary Luttrell, 1896-1972. "Mother" footstone\Beal, Hobert M., 1896-1960, "Father" footstone

Beal, Raymond A., 7/10/1916-12/13/1963, military marker "Tennessee Cpl HQ 11 Repl Bn AAF World War II"

Chesney, Debbie C., 8/15/1883-10/24/1955

Chesney, Harvey, 2/3/1912-10/3/1980

Chesney, Homer R., 12/5/1914-1/28/1993, military marker as footstone "Homer Raymond Chesney" "AS US Navy World War II"\Chesney, Bertha M., 4/21/1917-____ [she was buried between 1989 and 1997]

Chesney, T. A., 9/5/1883-3/16/1949

Gervin, John Daniel, 8/1/1908-2/18/1961

Gervin, John Sevier, 9/22/1873-9/6/1950, "Father"

Gervin, Ulysses Grant, 6/4/1870-6/1/1947

Jordan, Emma [see Palmer, Emma Jordan]

Jordan, John H., 6/23/1880-10/30/1963\Jordan, Mossie C., 10/6/1881-10/4/1966

Jordan, Lawrence A., 6/22/1907-4/25/1947, "Father" footstone [on a double marker with Emma Jordan Palmer]

Luttrell, Mary [see Beal, Mary Luttrell]

Maysey, James Arlie, 4/21/1930-9/18/1956

Maysey, Minnie B., 9/12/1902-____\Maysey, Everett L, 3/2/1898-7/2/1963

Murphy, Walter T., 10/10/1947-4/9/1976

Palmer, Emma Jordan, 11/10/1913-6/10/1978, "Mother" [on a double marker with Lawrence A. Jordan]

Roberson, Wilbern, 7/12/1969-6/14/1948, "Father" footstone\Roberson, Nancy, 11/3/1867-3/27/1956, "Mother" footstone

Scarbrough, Deadrick C., 5/31/1938-3/24/1965, "Brother" footstone

Scarbrough, Katharine R., 2/9/1913-____\Scarbrough, W. Earl, 9/11/1910-6/10/1984, "Father" footstone

Scarbrough, Minnie, 11/12/1881-9/21/1962, "Mother" footstone\Scarbrough, Clemadee, 9/13/1876-7/28/1959, "Father" footstone

Scarbrough, Thelma, born & died 5/19/1949, "Sisters" footstone\Scarbrough, Velma, born & died 5/19/1949

Stair, Emma H., 1877-1950 [adjacent to marker for George W. Stair]

Stair, George W., 1856-1945

Stair, Margaret, 1863-1954, "Sister" footstone [there is an unmarked grave just south of this one]

Stevens, Katie E., 6/23/1885-4/25/1956, "Mother" [adjacent to marker for John Sevier Gervin] [Smith and Amick list a temporary marker for "Mrs. Katie Elizabeth Stevens"]

Turner, S. F., 1887-1942, "Father"

Waycaster, Patricia, 1940-1996, temporary marker, Stevens Mortuary, 1 yard north of double marker for Ruth Beal and Larry K. Waycastle

Waycaster, Ruth Beal, 6/18/1920-____\Waycaster, Larry K., 9/23/1916-5/12/1979, "Rev.", military marker as footstone "US Army"

Whitt, Fred H., 1917-1975, military marker "Pvt US Army World War II"

 

          The following individual was recorded by d'Armand et al. in 1964. Because their record includes both the Ebenezer Cemetery and the Ebenezer Methodist Church Cemetery, it is not possible to say for sure in which of the two cemeteries this individual was buried.

Muckle, Henry, d. 12/23/1959 [not found in 1989; reported by d'Armand et al. in 1964; probably from a temporary marker]

 

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