This is a year end
report on the current links to cemeteries that are available from
the Union County Cemeteries Association website.
| Union County
Cemeteries |
139 cemeteries |
12,047 graves |
| Chuck Swan WMA
Cemeteries |
31 cemeteries |
507 graves |
| Surrounding County
Cemeteries |
16 cemeteries |
21,277 graves |
|
Grand Total |
186 cemeteries |
33,831 graves |
It is not known at
this time how many headstone and grave markers have been or are in
need of being photographed. Of the almost 13,000 graves that have
been entered so far for the cemeteries that are located in Union
County and the Chuck Swan WMA, I estimate that well over half have
photos.
Don Sanford has been
quite busy entering many photos, obituaries and other information
to over a thousand of the individual memorials. Robert and Ollie
Ellison have taken on the task of entering the data and
photographing the cemeteries that are located in Chuck Swan. Sheila
Campbell and Ellen Perry have helped and taken on the entries and
photos for a few of the smaller cemeteries. John and Diane Loy, who
live in California, have photographed and entered the
information, that I would estimate over 2000 of the individuals who
have passed on and are now resting here in Union County. I want to
particularly thank Darrell Waddell, our Webmaster, who without his
help and guiding hand we might not even have a website.
There are also quite a few individuals that I
have never meet who have had a hand in this project, and if I have
missed anyone else I do apologize. It is my hope that by this time
next year that every cemetery and every headstone will have been
photographed and become available through our website.
Leon Graves |
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The Union
County Cemeteries Association is a non-profit organization*
located in Union County, Tennessee. We strive to find ways to
restore and preserve old and abandoned cemeteries, and also
documenting the names of those interred. While you visiting our
site, please take a moment to sign our guestbook below and let us
know what you think of our site.
The Union County Cemeteries Association
through this web site will be presenting,
through photographs and information, some of
the more unusual headstones and burial sites
located in Union County. We will also be
listing for you information corrections as
they become known, in subsequent editions of
"Footprints", which is published and
available through the Union County
Historical Society. Additionally, we will
list and show pictures of some of the many
burial sites that have not had headstones in
the past, but through the efforts of the
UCCA and many individuals, markers have been
purchased and placed.
As
individual pioneer cemeteries have been cleaned, we have on occasion
found a grave with an overturned marker that was buried under many
years of natural debris. In addition, we have also found on occasion
a field stone that was used to mark a grave, that upon close
inspection would reveal a name and/or dates crudely scratched into
them. This new information will also be presented on this web site.
Pictures of "before" and "after" of cleaned and repaired headstones
and cleaned and restored cemeteries will also be shown.
All of
this is done through the volunteer efforts of many people. The
majority of the cemeteries now have signs, but there is still much
more work that needs to be done. Supplies, such a weed and root
killer to apply to some of the cemeteries on an annual basis,
cleaning supplies and special glues for use on headstone
restoration, and maintenance on the upkeep of equipment used in
cleaning the cemeteries, are ongoing cost to the society. One of the
major issues that is now being addressed is fencing for those
cemeteries who need it. Several of the older neglected cemeteries
are located in areas were there are cattle, and they have no respect
for these pioneer resting places. If you enjoy this web site and are
pleased with the effort that is being put forth by the UCCA, we
thank you, and also ask that any financial support that you might be
able to extend to us would be warmly received and greatly
appreciated.
The Union County Cemeteries Association
meets on the third Saturday of each month at
10:00am at the Union County Courthouse
located at 901 Main Street, Maynardville,
Tennessee. All members and interested
persons are encouraged to attend. There are
no meetings held in the months of July and December. |
