Eastern State is now known as Lakeshore Mental Health Institute.  Note that many of the people who were admitted were not insane; the hospital was also a sanitarium for long-term illnesses, such as tuberculosis/consumption, and senility/dementia resulting from old age.

The cemetery is located on Lyons View Drive in West Knoxville.  The cemetery at present lies adjacent to Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery at the intersection of Lyons View Drive and Northshore Drive.  It is located behind the Episcopal Church of the Ascension.  The cemetery, which was first used in the late 1880’s, has over 4,000 interments with most being unmarked.  Number markers were erected by the Hospital at one time, but these records have long since been destroyed as a result of the privacy act.  A few graves have markers that were erected by family members.  It later became the custom after the 1960’s to send unclaimed bodies to the Memphis State Medical Facility for use in classroom studies.  Legible markers were copied by Robert McGinnis in February 1983, and the cemetery was rechecked and photographed in March 2000.

Thanks, Robert, for sharing this list!

View of the cemetery looking East.

Transcription note:  Underlined information below indicates annotations made by Robert from other sources and does not apear on the gravestone.

William Monroe son of Wm H & Mary  Dennis   August 10 1886   -   February 9 1938

Jennie wife of James S Simmons   September 11 1877   -   September 22 1928

L R King   March 14 1895   -  August 27 1920

James M Glough   August 28 1852    -   December 28 1935

May (Fuller) wife of W M Smith   May 14 1881   -   October 16 1921

Frances M Arnold   1883   -   1922

John M McKee    September 15 1860   -   July 28 1899

Eva Adair Finney   1898   -   1927

Ellen Davis    1866   -  April 24 1933     (From Winifield, TN)

Sarah Frazier   December 2 1862   -   September 13 1911

John C Copeland    August 27 1857    -   August 14 1918    committed in 1886

Louis A Imbusch    August 28 1883   -   March 14 1915

Violet McGhee   Died March 16 1911  Aged 75 Years

Ida Barnds      Died January 22 1911   Aged  37 Years

The following are taken from the Knoxville City Death Records:

Miss Sallie Hamilton    Died  April 29 1930   Aged 20 Years     (see obituary below)

Robert Turpett   Died  August 11 1901  Aged 48 Years     (see obituary below)

Daniel L Cable   Died 1912

Harriet Cox   Died  October 28 1906   Aged  60 Years    (Black)

Kitty Clark     Died  November 15 1906    Aged  38 Years     (Black)

Mattie Cleveland   Died February 27 1907   Aged 30 Years   (Black)

Amanda daughter of Anthony Dunwoody,  wife of John Hamby   Died May 15 1907  Aged 29 Years

Robert Hardin  Died October 28 1907   Aged  45 Years

The following are taker from the Roberts Funeral home records:

James Davis    1851   -   March 13 1916

Leona Waits   Died December 5 1945   Aged 41 Years

Bettie Riggs   Died December 14 1945

Mrs Essie Chasteen   Died December 26 1945  Aged 34 Years

Fate Tipton   Died December 28 1945

Wm Fortner    Died January 16 1946  Aged  76 Years

Rosa Holt    Died June 30 1946   Aged 85 Years

Marshall  Vann     Died July 9 1947  Aged 67 Years

Mrs Ellen Kiberts   1899   -   January 24 1954

Wiley Atwood   April 2 1917   -   February 23 1954

Mrs Minnie Shepherd   February 14 1895   -   July 13 1954

Ms Katherine Platt    August 19 1880    -    March 15 1955

Ms Sybil Shropshire    1907   -   November 1 1956

Dallas W Cobb    April 1 1881   -   December 27 1961

Ed Shipley    September  22 1892    -   July 2 1961

Paul Fisher   Died June 27 1960  Aged 75 Years

Belle Hardin   Died May 8 1899   Aged 40 Years   (c)

Mary Belle Westley   Died April 23 1899   Aged 9 Months   (c)

Howard Wiley   Died April 14 1899   Aged 50 Years   (c)

Mary Belle Kelso    Died  March 22 1898   Aged 18 Years   (c)

Wm Carter   Died March 11 1896   Aged 38 Years   (c)

The following are taken from the Tennessee State Death Certificates:
In the following entries, (c) indicates the death certificate contained the notation "colored."
Locations following names show the decedent's usual place of residence.

Martha McPherson    1879   -   January 12 1920

Rilda P Norris  1884   -   January 18 1920

Mary Chandler    1860    -   January 28 1920

Patsy Russell   1859   -  March 4 1920

Jasper Cowan    1878    -   March 5 1920

Vivian V Watson   1893   -  March 5 1920

Joseph Bice    1866    -   March 6 1920

Frank Brotherton   1860   -    March 9 1920

Martha Ellen Watson    1837   -   March 18 1920

James Jenkins    1858   -   March 23 1920

Rose Keener    1895    -   March 24 1920

Margaret Arnold    1847    -   April 8 1920

Elizabeth R Moore   1868   -   April 19 1920

Lem King    1895   -   April 27 1920

Mrs Liza J Newman   Died May 23 1920   Aged 52 Years

Mat Browder   Died June 16 1920   Aged 24 Years     (c)

Addie Angel    February 17 1891     -   June 26 1920

Valentine Ottinger   1853   -  August 25 1920

Will  Jones   Died August 31 1920   Aged 33 Years

Gertrude Cloud   Died September 26 1920   Aged 24 Years

Lizzie Cagle     Died October 24 1920    Aged 27 Years

Hugh Gains    Died December 6 1920    Aged 75 Years

William Evans     1857    -   December 31 1920

Mary McManus   Died January 6 1921   Aged 68 Years

Mrs Mary Setzer   Died January 19 1921   Aged 60 Years

Mrs Margaret Thomas  Died January 24 1921  Aged 69 Years

James Phillips      1870   -   February 11 1921

Louisa Smithers, daughter of Jesse Chambers    1891   -   February 18 1921

Thomas Durton   Died March 10 1921   Aged about 35 Years

Rachel Harris     1892   -    March 22 1921

Sam F Potter   October 24 1873    -    May 20 1921

John Goforth    1891   -   June 12 1921

Ray Thomas   1891   -  June 17 1921

Bell Witt    1865    -  July 5 1921

Arthur Stevens    1886    -   July 28 1921

Newton O Sexton    May 25 1841   -   July 28 1921

Sarah Kerr    1866     -   August 4 1921

Jessie Campbell    1886    -   August 7 1921

Pat Gilliam     1880    -   August 18 1921

Henry Steelman    1863    -   August 29 1921

Allen Elmore    1902   -   August 30 1921

Alma M Brazier    1869   -   September 17 1921

Clementine Downey   1846   -  October 30 1921

Jack J Shelby   1871    -  November 5 1921

Texas Fleming     Died December 17 1921  Aged 22 Years    (c)    (Male)

Francis M Hawkins     1894    -  December 27 1921

Martha R Myers   1848   -  December 30 1921

Cora Kidd   1860   -  January 2 1922    (c)

Sam Rankins    1860   -  January 6 1922     (c)

Fargina Barry    1866    -   January 21 1922

Harriett Burton    1877    -   January 22 1922

Hallie Coffee    1878     -    January 27 1922

Moses Evens   1851    -  February 3 1922

Flora daughter of Joe & Nora Willis   February 4 1897    -   March 27 1922

Haywood Polston    1904   -   April 6 1922

Doris Dean    1902     -   May 31 1922

Martha Pleasant     1880    -  July 8 1922

Francis Powell      1885    -   August 5 1922

Marie Dake     1892    -    September 8 1922

Alice Peck   1901     -  September 26 1922

Millie Murphy   1857   -    October 6 1922

Houser Cummings    1875    -   October 23 1922

Mary Edens, daughter of Carroll Taylor    1884    -   November 4 1922

Carrie Foster   1883    -  November 9 1922

Sallie Hill   1848    -   November 10 1922

Mary Woodard     Died  November 26 1922   Aged 16 Years

Margaret Johnson     1837    -   December 10 1922

Lizzie Altum     1883    -   December 19 1922  

Jordan Moore  Died January 5 1923   Aged 77 Years    (c)

Frank Johnson    Died January 10 1923   Aged 25 Years    (c)

Maggie Burchfield    Died January 11 1923     Aged 39 Years

Nelson Reynolds    1841    -    January 23 1923      (c)

Mae Goldtrip   June 29 1894    -     February 12 1923

Mrs Mary Armstrong    Died May 18 1923      (see obituary below)

Jack Rose   January 10 1872   -   April 4 1930

John Reagan    Died April 6 1930   Aged 81 Years

Houston Grant     1876   -   April 13 1930

Laura Britt    1898   -   April 18 1930

Nellie Miller    1895    -   April 23 1930

Lucinda White     Died March 10 1930    Aged 70 Years

Mollie Branum    June 8 1897   -   March 21 1930

Addie Statom    Died May 8 1930     Aged 73 Years

Deela Witt    1904   -  May 13 1930

Andy Goodman     March 15 1879    -   May 14 1930

Roland B son of A J & Callie Painter     1880   -   May 20 1930

Rose Burrell    February 14 1887    -   May 23 1930

Lucy Housewright     1890    -   June 9 1930

Liny Trent     Died June 13 1930     Aged 44 Years

Alice Willoughby    Died June 16 1930    Aged 41 Years

Mina Duncan    1882   -   June 19 1930

Lonnie son of J A & Hattie Cawthorne    Died July 12 1930   Aged 16 Years

Mollie Smith   Died July 13 1930   Aged 60 Years

Frank Carter   1871   -  September 5 1930

Henry Jones     Died August 7 1930   

Willima Butler    1879   -   August 9 1930

Julia Pride     Died August 26 1930

Ed son of Loss & Eva Bishop    Died October 6 1930     Aged 43 Years

Sarah White    Died October 12 1930    Aged 58 Years

Rachel Gregory     Died November 5 1930     Aged 56 Years

Jake Holt    Died November 22 1930   Aged 71 Years

Bramlet James    Died  December 31 1930   Aged 57 Years

Horace Griffith   Died January 2 1933   Aged 64 Years     (c)  (Clinton, TN)

Charles Jones     Died January 2 1933   Aged 56 Years     (Bristol, TN)

Mary Henderson     Died February 10 1933     Aged 50 Years      (Johnson City, TN)

Tishey Frasure     Died February 12 1933   Aged 20 Years     (Pruden, TN)

Mary Elledge     Died March 3 1933     Aged 86 Years     (Clinton, TN)

Jake Cupp     Died March 22 1933     Aged 56 Years       (LaFollette, TN)

Glen Whiteside    Died March 28 1933    Aged 33 Years     (c)      (Tate, TN)

Bill Otto    Died May 3 1933   Aged 43 Years      (Chattanooga, TN)

Rose wife of John Hutchins    Died  May 10 1933    Aged 40 Years    (Kingsport, TN)

John Green     Died May 25 1933    Aged 85 Years      (Cookeville, TN)

Henry Massengill     Died May 25 1933     Aged 70 Years     (Jacksboro, TN)

Charles Butler    Died June 2 1933    Aged 68 Years     (c)     (Chattanooga, TN)

Edward G Duncan      Died June 5 1933    Aged 71 Years      (Whiteside, TN)

Daniel Cockreham     Died June 15 1933   Aged 68 Years    (Saint Clair)

Ellen Hudson      Died June 19 1933   Aged 81 Years      (c)     (Morristown, TN)

John Givens    Died June 30 1933   Aged 31 Years      (Daysville, TN)

Sarah Jane Stoner     Died April 13 1933    Aged 62 Years      (Boyds Creek, TN)

Easter Cutshall    Died April 23 1933    Aged 38 Years         (Greeneville, TN)

Dave Hensley   Died April 26 1933    Aged 40 Years     (Kingsport, TN)

Sue Blanton    Died July 8 1933    Aged 79 Years     (Morristown, TN)

Jim Carroway     Died July 24 1933     Aged 54 Years     (Dayton, TN)

Essie Ashby    Died  July 24 1933   Aged 38 Years     (Athens, TN)

Joe Scalf    Died August 2 1933    Aged 41 Years      (Chattanooga, TN)

Irene Davis     Died August 3 1933   Aged 21 Years     (c)    (Chattanooga, TN)

James Gulley     Died July 30 1933     Aged 66 Years      (Morristown, TN)

Alberta son of Sharp Johnson     Died September 5 1933   Aged 31 Years    (c)     (Cleveland, TN)

Jacob Morefield     Died  September 10 1933    Aged 42 Years     (Neva, TN)

Millie Brannon    Died  September 11 1933     Aged 70 Years     (Jamestown, TN)

Nelson Fletcher     Died  October 28 1933   Aged 36 Years     (Mt. City, TN)

Sarah wife of   J T Bateur    Died December 23 1933   Aged 45 Years    (Chattanooga, TN)

Alvis Williams    Died December 24 1933   Aged 59 Years      (Washburn, TN)     

Laura Osborne   Died March 2 1934   Aged 30 Years     (Johnson City, TN)

Pete Hicks     Died March 9 1934    Aged 69 Years      (Butler, TN)

Earl Newman   Died  March 19 1934   Aged 21 Years      (Knoxville, TN)

Lee McGowan    Died March 30 1934    Aged 30 Years     (Cleveland, TN)

Cora Jones   Died April 10 1934    Aged 87 Years     (Knox County, TN)

Willie Smith     Died May 13 1934    Aged 38 Years      (Pikeville, TN)

William M Pritchett      May 30 1899    -    June 15 1934       (Meigs County, TN)

Bell wife of Sam Capps   Died June 28 1934   Aged 44 Years     (Chattanooga, TN)

Pearl Towe     Died June 30 1934     Aged 42 Years     (Isabella, TN)

Eliza Fisher    Died July 14 1934    Aged 80 Years    (Eidson, TN)

Belle wife of W S  Metcalfe    Died July 15 1934   Aged 67 Years   (Monteagle, TN)

Adam Decatur Holt     Died July 16 1934    Aged 72 Years    (Bloomingdale, TN)

John Stewart    Die July 19 1934    Aged 36 Years      (Lancing, TN)

John B Raider    Died July 19 1934    Aged 66 Years      (Elizabethton, TN)

Ida Bell Baker     Died July 28 1934    Aged 38 Years     (c)      (Signal Mt., TN)

Mary wife of J A  Cain     Died August 6 1934     Aged 33 Years     (Chattanooga, TN)

Mary Hill     Died September 14 1934    Aged 77 Years     (St. Elmo, TN)

Martha Soward    Died September 19 1934    Aged 28 Years      (Kingston, TN)

Flem Moles    Died September 25 1934     Aged 67 Years      (Sneedville, TN)

Marian Bryant     Died October 8 1934    Aged 89 Years      (Etowah, TN)

John F Campbell     Died October 20 1934    Aged 74 Years      (Talbott, TN)

John Crumley    Died October 30 1934   Aged 63 Years      (Benton, TN)

Olive Robbins    Died October 30 1934    Aged 34 Years     (Oakdale, TN)

Abraham Lincoln Stalcup     Died October 30 1934    Aged 70 Years     (Knoxville, TN)

J Rollin King     Died  November 22 1934    Aged 82 Years     (Reliance, TN)

Lucinda Williams    Die December 4 1934    Aged 80 Years      (Clear Branch, TN)   

John Poindexter    Died January 4 1935   Aged 77 Years     (Mooresburg, TN)

Roscoe Tallent   October 23 1887    -    January 19 1935       (Louisville, TN)

Emma Bell Oldinger Burchfield     Died February 8 1935    Aged 43 Years      (Johnson City, TN)

John  Blalock    Died  March 6 1935   Aged 78 Years       (Sevierville, TN)

Hattie (Eskridge) wife of William Smith    October 1877   -    March 6 1935     (c)   (Rockwood, TN)

Callie wife of John Wattenbarger     Died March 26 1935   Aged 38 Years       (Meigs County, TN)

Mabel Howard   Died April 22 1935     Aged 22 Years       (c)      (Knoxville, TN)

Frank Copeland    Died  March 29 1935   Aged 75 Years         (Bradley County, TN)

Charles M Branscomb    January 1 1870   -   June 7 1935     (Chattanooga, TN)

Samuel Wallace    Died June 9 1935    Aged 36 Years     (c)    (Knox County, TN)

Andrew L Cable     Died June 16 1935    Aged 52 Years     (Johnson City, TN)

Arthur Johnson    Died June 26 1935     Aged 52 Years     (Cocke County, TN)

Ella H Johnson     Died May 4 1935    Aged 77 Years     (Unicoi County, TN)

Tom Goodwin     Died August 3 1935    Aged about 40 Years     (c)      (Washington County, TN)

Flora Pressly     Died August 7 1935    Aged 34 Years       (Knox County, TN)

Horace Brobeck     Died August 22 1935     Aged 45 Years      (Greene County, TN)

Fred Johnson    March 22 1908    -   September 20 1935     (c)       (Knox County, TN)

James B Gentry   Died October 9 1935    Aged 70 Years       (Greene County, TN)

Julia Wrinkle    Died November 7 1935   Aged 59 Years     (Knox County, TN)

William M McDonald     October 16 1887    -    November 16 1935       (McMinn County, TN)

Clifford Burrell   Died November 27 1935   Aged 20 Years      (Harrogate, TN)

Hannah McGee     Died December 1 1935    Aged 61 Years       (Campbell County, TN)

Dock Wells    Died December 2 1935    Aged 92 or 103 Years      (c)     (Hamilton County, TN)

Jeff Wilkerson   Died December 28 1935    Aged 49 Years     (c)      (Anderson County, TN)     

Thomas White    Died January 3 1936    Aged 60 Years    (c)

Laura Mowel    Died January 4 1936    Aged 56 Years

Joe Day    Died January 5 1936     Aged 74 Years

Mary Layman     Died February 15 1936    Aged 43 Years

Nancy Dorthena Monday     Died March 28 1936    Aged 40 Years

Rosanna Adams     Died May 18 1936    Aged 75 Years

Hugh Burton    Died  May 25 1936    Aged 49 Years

Celia Pate     Died June 2 1936    Aged 76 Years

Will Lambert     Died June 18 1936    Aged 72 Years

Jennie Brady    Died June 25 1936      Aged 52 Years

Ora (Maples) wife of Clarence Burnette    March 21 1903    -   June 26 1936

William Owens    June 23 1880   -   May 6 1936  

Oscar Trentham    Died July 10 1936   Aged 26 Years

Austin Swaggerty    Died July 15 1936   Aged 18 Years

James Arnold Pritchett     June 10 1852    -    July 30 1936

Etta Cox    Died August 4 1936    Aged 60 Years

Joseph B Sutherland     Died August 23 1936    Aged 86 Years

Isaac Shelton     Died October 13 1936    Aged 36 Years

John Dickson     Died October 20 1936     Aged 54 Years

Isaac Webb     Died December 2 1936    Aged 81 Years

Tom Davis     April 7 1870   -    December 13 1936      (Claiborne County, TN)

Everett Ferguson    October 9 1904    -    November 20 1936     (Hamilton County, TN)

John M Broyles     January 29 1856    -    November 29 1936      (Greene County, TN)

Henry Powell     Died November 29 1936   Aged 82 Years     (Blount County, TN)

Maxwell Jack      Died November 5 1936   Aged 30 Years     (Knox County, TN)

Mose Blackburn    Died January 7 1937   Aged 58 Years

Mack Ballinger     Died January 7 1937    Aged 45 Years

Claude Knight    May 11 1899   -    January 8 1937

Ida Smith    Died February 1 1937    Aged 35 Years

Malinda (Davis) Johnson    Died February 5 1937     Aged about 55 Years

Emily F daughter of Charles D & Luvenia Williams    April 1866   -   March 13 1937

Nancy Hamblen   July 12 1862    -    June 17 1937

Hattie Broyles     Died May 2 1937    Aged 52 Years 

William Green    Died July 7 1937    Aged 66 Years

Lydia wife of R O  Wright     April 10 1877   -    July 10 1937

Frankie Gardenshire     Died July 14 1937    Aged 58 Years      (c)

Joe Edward Prestwood      October 24 1898    -    June 26 1937

James Harvey Moore     Die August 10 1937     Aged 54 Years

Bonnie (Mosier) wife of John Moss   March 10 1898   -    August 17 1937

William M Haley     Died August 20 1937     Aged 62 Years

John Jack Baird    Died August 27 1937     Aged 58 Years

James W Riordian     Died October 20 1937    Aged 63 Years

Marion (Hoyle) Erwin     April 16 1897    -   November 17 1937

Rhoda Rudd     Died November 27 1937    Aged 60 Years

Will Green    Died November 29 1937     Aged 31 Years

Bobbie Edington     Died December 18 1937     Aged 56 Years

John Ray     Died December 23 1937   Aged 77 Years

James Trent    February 1880   -   January 24 1938

McKinley son of Alfred Gillespie   March 10 1894   -  March 29 1938

Horace Hamby Sr.    February 29 1892   -    May 19 1938

Bryant Noel   Died April 18 1938   Aged 35 Years

Alice Barr   Died September 21 1938   Aged 55 Years

Junius Lee son of Herbert Lee & Nola P Babb     August 1900   -   November 18 1938

Lizzie Goins     Died November 23 1938   Aged 88 Years

Abe Clyde  son of Abe & Beatrice Smith     Died November 26 1938

Eliza wife of Preston Young     Died December 19 1938   Aged 56 Years

Robert Stanfield    Died December 26 1938   Aged 61 Years    

Barbara Alice Rutherford    Died February 17 1939    Aged 68 Years

Mattie (Johnson) wife of James Smith    December 10 1873    -   February 20 1939

Louise Ownby    Died March 10 1939   Aged 78 Years

James Farmer     Died  March 18 1939    Aged 77 Years

Minnie Williams    Died March 30 1939    Aged 77 Years

Ralph McQueen   Died  May 19 1939   Aged  22 Years

Charlie D Conley    September 7 1880   -   July 20 1939

Spicey Sosebee     May 27 1864   -   September 8 1939

Dora daughter of Lloyd & Sallie Miller    April 21 1894    -   October 17 1939

Martha Jackson     Died October 21 1939   Aged 75 Years

Ella Shull    September 18 1876   -    December 7 1939

Margaret Irby     Died December 22 1939   Aged 95 Years 

Obituaries:

Knoxville Sentinel    Monday  April 30  1900

Miss Sallie Hamilton, aged twenty years, a native of Bledsoe County, died Sunday at the East Tennessee Hospital for the Insane. Typhoid fever was the cause of her death. The deceased was sent to the asylum a month ago and was in bad health. All possible was done for her and she declined gradually until she contracted typhoid fever and the end soon came. The young lady was a member of one of Bledsoe County’s best families and became demented about religion. She was laid to rest in the hospital cemetery.

Knoxville Daily Journal & Tribune   Monday  August 12  1901

Robert Turpett, a patient at the Lyons View Hospital for the insane, died Sunday at noon after a lingering illness. His home is in Roane County. He was forty-eight years of age and leaves a wife and three children to mourn their loss. He had been an inmate of the asylum for the past two years.

Knoxville Journal & Tribune   Sunday  May 20  1923

Mrs Mary Armstrong, died at the Eastern Hospital Friday. She was a devoted Christian and took a active part in church work in the Baptist church before her health failed. She is survived by four daughters and one son. The body was interred in the cemetery at Lyons View.

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