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Cemetery: Arrants Cemetery
Other:
Sign: No
Street: 378-505
Mountain View Road
City: Bluff
City (out of Piney Flats)
Township:
County: Sullivan
State: TN
Nation: USA
Zip:
37618
lat_ns: N
lat_h: 36
lat_mmss: 25 46
long_ew: W
long_h: 82
long_mmss: 17 15
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Directions: Beside Mt. View Rd, behind white
concrete bldng, near silo. Right side of rd going west
Type:
Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: trees and gopher holes
Property: Private
Access: Open
Enclosure: Fence-Broken
Gate: None
Established: early 1800's
Gravestones: 25-30
Oldest: prob. 1813
Newest: 1937
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: No
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: No
Association: Unsure
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Yes
Availability: I have photos of most of the stones as of
2002.
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: No
Fencing: Yes
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: Yes
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: No
Granite: Yes
Marble: Unsure
Native: Unsure
Slate: Unsure
Others: Unsure
Wood: No
Materials: Unsure
Architectural: Unsure
Angels: Yes
Draperies: Unsure
Fraternal: Unsure
Hands: Yes
Lambs: Unsure
Monograms: Unsure
Plants: Yes
Photos: Unsure
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: No
Urns: No
Carvings: Yes
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Unknown
Pollution: Unknown
Vandalized: No
Report: Yes
VA1:
VA2:
VA3:
VA4:
VA5:
Overgrowth:
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2: Graves-Disturbing
Overgrowth3: Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth4: Gravestones-Damaging
GroundCover: Yes
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Good
Problem1: Encroachment
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Industrial
Bordering: Industrial
Change: Same
Reason: Roads
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Unknown
Habitat: Yes
Contacted: Sheriff Wayne Anderson of
Sullivan Co., Sheriff C. Henson of Carter Co., and Editor of
Sullivan Co., Genealogical Society Journal.
Surnames:
Arrants, Crumley, Mottern, Roberts,
Woods
Other_Information:
By the time I found it, it needed so much work I couldn't be of any
use. The Woods family had done some clearing. Graves disappeared into
sunken spaces. Lots of gopher holes destroying graves. Trees where
bodies were buried.
Support:
Sheriff Wayne Anderson, 140 Blountville Byp, P O Box 589,
Blountville, TN 37617. John C. Henson, Sheriff, 900 East Elk Avenue,
Elizabethton TN 37643.
Submitted by:
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Name:
Patricia Arrants (a descendant)
Email: c_ottontop1@tds.net
Date:
11/26/2005
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