FAYETTE COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES -  JOHNSON CEMETERY
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                     JOHNSON CEMETERY

JOHNSON CEMETERY IS ON THE BLUFFS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE NORTH FORK OF THE 
WOLF RIVER ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF THE LA GRANGE ROAD ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH- 
EAST OF HWY 76. IT IS SAID TO BE ON LAND OWNED BY DANIEL JOHNSON, ONE OF THE 
EARLY SETTLERS OF FAYETTE COUNTY. IN THE FAYETTE COUNTY CEMETERY BOOK, IT 
IS LISTED AS PATTERSONVILLE CEMETERY, BUT IT IS ACROSS THE RIVER FROM 
PATTERSONVILLE, AND THERE WAS ANOTHER NEAR THE SITE OF PATTERSONVILLE. IT IS 
LOCATED ABOUT 100 FEET FROM THE ROADWAY ON LAND CURRENTLY OWNED BY WHIT 
MIDDLECOFF. ONLY FOUR GRAVES WERE LISTED IN THE CEMETERY BOOK. ANOTHER 
MARKER HAS BEEN PUT THERE SINCE THAT INFORMATION WAS GATHERED. JAMIE 
EVANS OF AMES PLANTATION TOLD ME THAT THERE ARE MANY UNMARKED GRAVES, 
INCLUDING SOME BLACK SLAVE GRAVES. THE CEMETERY IS OVERGROWN WITH SMALL 
TREES. THERE IS A GROUND COVERING OF PERIWINKLE COMMONLY FOUND IN OLD 
CEMETERIES. THE TOP OF WILLIAM LAUGHTER'S MARKER IS BROKEN WITH ONLY " WILL-
-- GHTER" READABLE. THE MARKER OF DORA HOUSTON IS A RECENT ADDITION. THIS IS 
LIKELY WHERE ROBERT BROWN IS BURIED SINCE DANIEL JOHNSON WAS 
ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE. ROBERT BROWN DIED IN 1833 WHILE LIVING NEAR THE 
NORTH FORK OF WOLF RIVER.


ELIZ GREEN              DIED FEB 12, 1848 AGE 66

WLM GREEN               DIED JULY 9, 1842 AGE 68

DORA SNELLINGS HOUSTON  1875 – 1899

WILLIAM LAUGHTER        SEPT 3, 1782 – SEPT 3, 1837

EDNA ANN LOVINGS        DIED JAN 31, 1853 AGE 33