Afternoon, It has been a beautiful sunny day in Washington County. Hope the forecasters are wrong for tomorrow. The Washington County, Tennessee Marriage Records, 1871-1899 arrived from the printers yesterday. We hope genealogists will find it a useful addition to Goldene Fillers Burgner's book of earlier records. See the web page for ordering information: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwag/bookshop.htm This will be the last posting of cemeteries for 2004. The team will be out on pretty days this winter, copying more. Brushy Creek Campground & Cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/cemetery/cemBr_Bu.htm#BRUSHY%20CREEK If you have evidence of any one being buried here, please let us know. Bowman (John) Cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/cemetery/cemBo.htm#BOWMANJohn Again, if you know of any one being buried here, please let us know. Lovelace Baptist Church Cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/cemetery/cemLovelaceSecA1.htm This cemetery is located on the edge of Greene County. It is included on this site because so many Washington County residents are buried here. Painter Cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/cemetery/cemP.htm#PAINTER Again, we need your help identifying the folks buried here. This is a good time to acknowledge the members of the Cemetery Survey Team of NE Tennessee: Margaret Hougland and Chester Willis are our webmasters Chester also does a lot of PR work for us, as well as, the "get down and dirty" work of cleaning markers. Donna Briggs, copies, photographs each marker, searches for additional information and burns the documents to a CD. Dawn Peters, Gary Sawyer, Jan Clark and Elaine Cantrell locates and copies cemeteries. Lori Craiger would like to get out more but a regular job and family keeps her busy. She enters the information into a database. Bob Shell and Bud Cox are a big help with the scrubber, hacking tools and clearing the way for other team members to work. We especially want to mention the late J.R. Hodges, Jr. We appreciate all his help. A big thanks to the many other folks who take us to remote places to work, holds the gates open, and helps us gather additional information. The Cemetery Survey Team of NE TN does not hold formal meetings, we do not elect officers and we plan to keep it that way. We get the job done and are not slowed down with "procedures." We are not part of another organization but we enjoy the cooperation of other groups. We have such a wonderfully diverse group of people. We work together or independantly. We have some members who are interested in working only the sections of the county where they live; others will travel anywhere. Some of our older members find the "hidden jewels" and do the PR work for the "get down and get dirty" group to copy. We have some members who work regular jobs and can't always do field work. They enter the information into a database and proofread for us or act as webmasters. Our main goal is to copy and preserve the information. We don't have enough people or money (this is an all volunteer effort) to clean up and preserve cemeteries. We hope by drawing attention to cemeteries that descendants or interested indivduals will adopt it and keep it up. So much of our history is fading away because of neglect. We do not do anything that will destroy a grave and try to leave a cemetery in better shape than when we entered. Visit our web page for more information about our mission. http://cemeterysurveyteamofnortheasttennessee.com/ Betty Jane Siochain agus Sonas faoi Nollaig duit (Peace and Happiness to you at Christmas) Betty Jane Hylton Editor, Bulletin for Watauga Association of Genealogists http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnWAG Co-ocordinator, Washington County, TN TNGeb Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin Member, Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee http://cemeterysurveyteamofnortheasttennessee.com ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag

Betty Jane, Margaret and Team, Thank you again for your tireless (well, maybe not tireless, but persistent) pursuit of documenting the Washington County cemeteries. Anyone who has transcribed a cemetery knows how difficult it can be - especially reading the old and deteriorated stones. Merry Christmas to everyone, and if you get snow in Johnson City, enjoy it for all of us in Georgia! Pat Sabin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Jane Hylton" <bjhylton@ureach.com> To: <TNWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 5:13 PM Subject: [TNWASHIN-L] News and last cemetery posting > Afternoon, > > It has been a beautiful sunny day in Washington > County. Hope the forecasters are wrong for > tomorrow. > > The Washington County, Tennessee Marriage Records, > 1871-1899 arrived from the printers yesterday. We > hope genealogists will find it a useful addition > to Goldene Fillers Burgner's book of earlier > records. See the web page for ordering > information: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwag/bookshop.htm > > This will be the last posting of cemeteries for > 2004. The team will be out on pretty days this > winter, copying more. > > Brushy Creek Campground & Cemetery > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/cemetery/cemBr_Bu.htm#BRUSHY%20CREEK > If you have evidence of any one being buried here, > please let us know. > > Bowman (John) Cemetery > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/cemetery/cemBo.htm#BOWMANJohn > Again, if you know of any one being buried here, > please let us know. > > Lovelace Baptist Church Cemetery > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/cemetery/cemLovelaceSecA1.htm > This cemetery is located on the edge of Greene > County. It is included on this site because so > many Washington County residents are buried here. > > Painter Cemetery > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/cemetery/cemP.htm#PAINTER > Again, we need your help identifying the folks > buried here. > > This is a good time to acknowledge the members of > the Cemetery Survey Team of NE Tennessee: > > Margaret Hougland and Chester Willis are our > webmasters > Chester also does a lot of PR work for us, as well > as, the "get down and dirty" work of cleaning > markers. > Donna Briggs, copies, photographs each marker, > searches for additional information and burns the > documents to a CD. > Dawn Peters, Gary Sawyer, Jan Clark and Elaine > Cantrell locates and copies cemeteries. > Lori Craiger would like to get out more but a > regular job and family keeps her busy. She enters > the information into a database. > Bob Shell and Bud Cox are a big help with the > scrubber, hacking tools and clearing the way for > other team members to work. > We especially want to mention the late J.R. > Hodges, Jr. We appreciate all his help. > > A big thanks to the many other folks who take us > to remote places to work, holds the gates open, > and helps us gather additional information. > > The Cemetery Survey Team of NE TN does not hold > formal meetings, we do not elect officers and we > plan to keep it that way. We get the job done and > are not slowed down with "procedures." We are not > part of another organization but we enjoy the > cooperation of other groups. > > We have such a wonderfully diverse group of > people. We work together or independantly. We have > some members who are interested in working only > the sections of the county where they live; others > will travel anywhere. Some of our older members > find the "hidden jewels" and do the PR work for > the "get down and get dirty" group to copy. We > have some members who work regular jobs and can't > always do field work. They enter the information > into a database and proofread for us or act as > webmasters. > > Our main goal is to copy and preserve the > information. We don't have enough people or money > (this is an all volunteer effort) to clean up and > preserve cemeteries. We hope by drawing attention > to cemeteries that descendants or interested > indivduals will adopt it and keep it up. So much > of our history is fading away because of neglect. > We do not do anything that will destroy a grave > and try to leave a cemetery in better shape than > when we entered. > > Visit our web page for more information about our > mission. > http://cemeterysurveyteamofnortheasttennessee.com/ > > Betty Jane > > Siochain agus Sonas faoi Nollaig duit > (Peace and Happiness to you at Christmas) > > > Betty Jane Hylton > Editor, Bulletin for Watauga Association of > Genealogists > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnWAG > Co-ocordinator, Washington County, TN TNGeb Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin > Member, Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast > Tennessee > http://cemeterysurveyteamofnortheasttennessee.com > > > ________________________________________________ > Get your own "800" number > Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more > http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag > > > ==== TNWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Visit Washington County TNGenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/ > Tour Jonesborough TN at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncjones/ > >