http://www.wdbj.net/~tnknox/cemeteries/ A note about the Confederate Cemetery, located at 1919 Bethel Avenue, Knoxville: One official source states: "The Confederate Cemetery is rarely opened to the public. It is owned and administered by the Mabry-Hazen Foundation, and inquiries should be addressed to the Mabry-Hazen House, (865) 522-8661. Most of the 1,600 Confederates and 50-60 Union prisoners of war buried here were lost to disease, which periodically swept the camps during the War. As far as is known, none of those lost at Fort Sanders are interred here." However, historian William Rule wrote in 1900: "The Confederate or Bethel Cemetery is located about one mile east of Gay street on the Rutledge pike, and includes four acres of land, two acres of which was purchased in 1862 of Knox county, and two acres of Joseph Mabry. Ever since it was established it has been in charge of the Ladies' Memorial Association. More than 1,600 Confederate dead lie buried in this cemetery, and according to the present secton, W.D. Winstead, an old Confederate soldier, there were buried here in the southeast corner, three hundred bodies of soldiers killed in the charge on Fort Sanders, immediately after the battle, which, if correct, when added to the ninety-two buried in neat pine boxes under the direction of S.T. Atkins, would make three hundred and ninety-two killed in that disastrous attack. The monunent on the Confederate dead in Bethel Cemetery was erected through the efforts of the Ladies' Memorial Association, and was unveiled May 19, 1892, that being the day usually observed for the purpose of decorating Confederate soldiers' graves." The cemetery is managed through the office of the Chattanooga National Cemetery (phone 423-855-6590). This office can look up burials for telephone inquirers. There is no on-site staff in Knoxville. A small building on the site houses notebooks with the names and interment details of each person buried here. Historian William Rule wrote in 1900: "The National Cemetery at Knoxville is situated on a slight eminence in the northwestern portion of the city, the principal entrance being on Jacksboro street [now North Broadway], which passes along the western side of the cemetery. There are also entrances on the eastern side, one for carriages and one for people on foots. This cemetery was established in 1865, and laid out according to places furnished from Washington. ... The number of graves in this cemetery at the present time is 3,238, and contains the bodies of 2,191 soldiers who names are known and 1,047 whose names are unknown. Among the known are thirteen bodies of soldiers that died in camp in Knoxville during the year 1898." Robert McGinnis transcribed about 300,000 Knox County burials in the late 1970's and early 1980's. He's continued to update and add to the listing. Many of you may be familiar with the card file >at the McClung Historical Collection in Knoxville, which contains the bulk of Robert's work. >> >> Well....strap yourself in so you won't jump out of your chair <g>. >> >> With the kind assistance of Mr. Jerry Dill, system administrator of the server where the Knox County TNGenWeb site is housed, we are now able to begin making an index to the transcriptions available on-line. >> >> Yep, you read that right: ON-LINE. We have almost 19,000 of the 300,000 inscriptions indexed so far. Please bear with us -- it's a time-consuming effort! >> >> When you search, you will be given the surname, given name(s), and cemetery. You can order the full transcription of the cemetery from Robert via a link on the site. >> >> After you use this search engine, please send a note to Mr. Dill to thank him for his assistance in getting this up. He can be reached via the server's website: http://www.rootsquest.com >> >> Are you chomping at the bit yet? <g> >> >> Here's the URL for the Knox County Cemeteries >> Website: http://www.wdbj.net/~tnknox/cemeteries/ >> >> And, feel free to spread the word as far and wide as you can! > > jbass@digital.net 216 Beach Park Lane Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-5003 Home of the *HARRISON* Repository http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/ My Southern Family WWW: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/ LINDSAY & HARRISON Surnames & CSA-HISTORY Roots Mail List GENCONNECT: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html Data Managed by beautiful daughter Becky Bass Bonner and me, Josephine Lindsay Bass