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Looking
for a lost ancestor that you are convinced would have
been buried in Union County or one of the other counties
that made up the Norris Basin? Then this just might be
the place for you to start searching for those elusive
ancestors whose grave sites may still be were they were
originally buried so many long years ago. The Tennessee
Valley Authority has stated that all but 22 graves were
moved from the area that was known as the Norris
Project. Using their own cemetery surveys, removal
statistics and listing of the individual grave sites
that were moved, you will begin to understand that many
more graves may in fact have been left to be inundated
and lost forever under the waters of Norris Lake.
Listed here are the 165 cemeteries that have so far
been identified as lying in the Norris Basin that were
surveyed and mapped. All of those that do not indicate
a property owner are known to have been surveyed, but we
have not yet been able to obtain a copy of the survey.
If other surveys are found latter on then they too will
be added to this listing. We will begin with cemeteries
that were located in Union County and then add the
cemeteries from the other four counties that were also
impacted. A few of the cemeteries listed here were above
the 1040 foot elevation and still exist today. It
appears that they were surveyed only because some
removals were taken from them. On each page we will
present as much information that we are able to glean
from original TVA documents. The researcher should also
keep in mind that many of the graves that were moved and
some of those that were left are shown as unknown.
There were also many graves that were re-interred that
are still today without any grave marking or
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