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"Lost" Cemeteries
From a sidebar to the story "Some Don't Rest in Peace," written by Wayne Bledsoe in the Knoxville News-Sentinel, 22 May 1997, section B, page 1.
| Name |
Location |
Year Destroyed |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson |
Sevierville Pike at Ford Town Road |
1965 |
| Bearden |
Badgett Drive |
1982 |
| Bell |
Patty Road |
Stones removed circa 1985 |
| Brooks |
Riverside Drive |
1981 |
| Carter |
Mascot Road at Highway 11 East |
1960 |
| Childress |
Brushy Valley Road at Pedigo Road |
Unknown |
| Clapp |
Longmire Road near Union County Line |
During the mid-1970's |
| Claiborne |
Tazewell Pike near Beverly Road |
Sometime in the 1960's |
| Martin Cruze |
Cruze Road |
Stones gone; several stones vandalized |
| Cunningham |
Magazine Road |
Stone found in 1978 by construction workers;
actual graveyard never located |
| Doyle |
Smallman Road near Maryville Pike |
1982 |
| Forestdale Methodist Church |
Forestdale Avenue |
Mid-1940's |
| Hill |
Emory Road |
1982 |
| Jett |
Childress Road near Pedigo
Road |
Stones moved to Brushy Valley Road |
| Jett |
Joe Lewis Road |
|
| Johnson |
Naze Hollow Road |
|
| Kain |
Highway 11W at John Sevier Yards |
|
| Kain |
Drummer Lane |
|
| Lonas |
Weisgarber Road near Londontown Apartments |
|
| Mitchell |
Emory Road near Pelleaux Road |
|
| Parker |
Penny Lane at Mynatt Drive |
Stones gone; fence still exists |
| Rutherford |
Wyrick Road in Corryton |
Stone for Revolutionary War veteran was
placed in mid-1940's; cemetery now lost |
| Tillery |
Dry Gap Pike |
1985 |
| Westerfield |
Highway 11W near Roberts Road" |
|
From 1976-1986, Robert McGinnis visited every graveyard in Knox County and transcribed the data from 125,000 tombstones. The index cards he created, cross-referenced, and often annotated, are filed for patron use at the McClung Historical Collection in Knoxville. If you have information on these or other lost Knoxville graveyards, please contact McClung.
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