COCKE COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Wood Cemetery on Arzell Road ----¤¤¤---- Wood Cemetery Located in Newport, Cocke County, TN just off Edwina Rd. (Highway 73), turn on to Sweetwater Rd. and take the first road on the left, Arzell Rd. It is on the left, in a curve. There are two chain link fences around the cemetery. Also, unsure of the significance, the ground of this cemetery is very 'springy' almost like you sink in. Benjamin Wood 10-22-1866 to 1-4-1942 (m. to Lou Burke -below-) Lou Wood 1866-1957 (the grass has not even grown over this grave site) (m. Benjamin and had 12 children, has a brother named John Burke) Lina Wood "Sister" 3-16-1904 to 10-13-1973 (never married according to Wood book, daughter to Benjamin and Lou Wood) Harald Wood 2-13-1939 "At Rest" Ruby Kate Wood 1925-1926 BALL (flat stone) Gracie Ball (metal marker only over her grave and next to the Ball stone) 5-29-1898 to 10-22-1988 Flat Stones on the ground: (told they were a poor family, so the Wood family allowed them to be buried here, on the edge of their family cemetery) Lizzie James note: there is an Eliza Turner who married a Billy James Will James - could this be the family???? Cora James Charlie James Mary Wood Runyan 1-2-1858 to 12-16-1921 (m. Thomas Runyon - Wood book says he is buried here also, but did not find a stone) Roy Runyan (metal flat stone) TN SGT Troop E 7 Calvary 5-18-1885 to 11-18-1965 Rosa Lee Wood 3-10-1871 to 3-12-1916 Thomas Jefferson Wood 6-30-1913 to 9-23-1916 Gene Woody 7-14-1942 to 1-12-1981 (m. Delores Harrison of El Paso, TX, served US Navy on "USS Sierra" Wood (large stone without engraving) Paul P. Wood 8-9-1908 to 5-12-1945 (Paul Presnel m. Gladys Owenby) Clay Vinson Wood TN CPL HO CO 120 Infantry WW1 11-24-1898 to 9-13-1969 (m. Gussie Sawyer and divorced, he sold real estate) Bertha Wood 1898-1976 Carl H. Wood 1891-1976 Iliff Bryant 1907-1989 Georgia Wood 1916- Bernie Wood TN PVT CO A 118 Infantry WWI 6-26-1897 to 6-14-1972 Bernie Washburn Wood 6-26-1897 to 6-14-1972 Horace N. Wood 9-28-1894 to 9-4-1980 (? Never married) Sue Ella Evans 2-25-1910 to 9-29-1979 (Suella Wood, daughter of Maggie and Dot Wood m. John Hal Evans, had 3 children) John Hal Evans 3-29-1910 to 5-6-1975 Maggie Neely Wood 5-5-1873 to 9-16-1959 (Margaret Neely, married to Dyatt "Dot" on 1-21-1904 Dot Wood 1870-1954 (born 1-2-1870) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Melanie jamfam@planetc.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------