To all who like cemeteries here is something strange & cool.
A friend of mine has 100 acres of land in Ganger County, out in the middle of nowhere. Rob his dad and I where making trials for four wheeling. Rob discover a large tombstone that reads Sarah Dadkins was B (born) Aug. 20, 1828 D (died) Oct. 16, 1878. He found up to 26 tombstones. Now this place is cover by trees and plants and has been forgotten for many years. Another tombstone reads ZORABABLE HARVEY Co. K.(Company K) 9 Tenn. Cav (Ninth Tennessee Cavalry Confederate Civil War Unit.). Rob my friend plans to restore this lost graveyard.
Why was this place forgotten and what kind of ghost remain?

That's really cool. It was probably a family or small community cemetary. They are often forgotten about, unfortunately. Tell the property owner to get in touch with somebody in the anthropology department at UT, I guess. It would be interseting to look a little more closely at the land around it, since clusters of graves were often dug fairly close to churches, or other structures. Don't disturb the graves themselves, though, & keep the trail for 4 wheeling a respectful distance away, is my advice.

I work for the Univeristy of Tennessee in the archaeological research laboratory. If you want to protect the site, the first step is to have it registered if it hasn't been already. It is a simple and free process that I would be happy to help with. One of the first things to do is to see if it is on any of the quadrangle maps. I can check if you wish. PM me the general area and I will check our files for any nearby cemetaries.
Good job thinking about preserving the site and respecting the inhabitants.

This reminds me of one of my favorite cemetaries in Oak Ridge, across the rail road tressle. According to my research, it is called the Bradley cemetary...sadly, a few of the graves have been looted...

TheSym wrote:I work for the Univeristy of Tennessee in the archaeological research laboratory. If you want to protect the site, the first step is to have it registered if it hasn't been already. It is a simple and free process that I would be happy to help with. One of the first things to do is to see if it is on any of the quadrangle maps. I can check if you wish. PM me the general area and I will check our files for any nearby cemetaries.
Good job thinking about preserving the site and respecting the inhabitants.

I will talk with my friend agin and see what he going to do. I know that he will respect this place and he plan to restore this graveyard.

There is a fairly large community cemetary in my mom and dads back yard ....well behind the yard.... It has these above ground tombstones that are at least ten feet tall with above ground plots..they are concrete and the people are buried in them...that one is the family of a second tn calvary man

I would be glad to take anyone with time for the 45 minute drive to Harriman It makes for some really cool pictures.

There are several babies, marked but not engraved and most are sunken at this point.

Buttercup wrote:This reminds me of one of my favorite cemetaries in Oak Ridge, across the rail road tressle. According to my research, it is called the Bradley cemetary...sadly, a few of the graves have been looted...

yeah i heard about that. i have been up to the tressle, its back the other direction from the bridge isn't it?

ther are 2 graveyards in that area...there is one before you get to the tressle on a different path and one after you cross the tressle...i've had ALOT of nocturnal and daytime adventures there at the first one but i have only heard of the second one from my son's father who was raised in the ridge...there is another one that weirds me out and i won't go there at night...does any one from the ridge know about the one out west towards lenoir city? it is right across the street from the guard tower beside some apartments and it is in the woods but accessible by car...it is the only graveyard i have ever been in that gives me the creeps and i love graveyards! i even took Richie to one on our first date!!

Yes Grave yards are cool my family takes care of one back home , mowing the grass and general up keep that's my uncle my cousin is a mortitian so he takes care of all the head stones

Night_Raven wrote:Yes Grave yards are cool my family takes care of one back home , mowing the grass and general up keep that's my uncle my cousin is a mortitian so he takes care of all the head stones

That's cool. I love cemetaries. I use to go hang out in this old cemetary in Greenback, waaaay out in BFE. It had a stone wall around it & you had to climb over it to get inside. One night we saw a pile of bones out there & where it looked like the ground had been burned. There's another graveyard out there that belongs to a church called Axley Chapel! As if that ain't creepy enough.

The property i lived on for about a year anda ahlf, and got married on had 2 graveyards, on the 232 acres in Columbia Tn. The first graveyard is in a middle of a crop fiels encompassed by trees. the second was further back and it was a slave cemeatary, That some decendents of the orginal slaves were buried in. so there were a few gravestones, but mostly rocks place over the grave. A memorial was alos erected there. The first one was teh "white" cemeatary. with alot of people with teh last name of english. Tehy were Plantation owners (the is remains of teh old plantation house on an ajoining property.
Those old private cemataries are quite intresting.

there is a graveyard in the middle of the woods off of the highway that goes along chillowee lake. (you can take the parkway here in maryville and it dumps out right on the lake) it is past the abrams creek bridge, its just a bunch of random graves in the middle of the woods. it actually seems pretty wierd. they just seem randomly scattered. some of them are just stones marking the graves, others have names on them. if i remember correctly they dated back to the mid late 1800's. but its been a while. it sort of makes you wonder what else is under the water there. the story of the area is that TVA came in and ass raped a bunch of poor folk. took their land, and flooded it. along the bottom side of the dam where the water gets shallower, you can still see some of the fences and roads that were flooded over.

On a sort of related subject do any of you have the names or authors of any books on local hauntings or lost grave yards and such ??

Buttercup wrote:This reminds me of one of my favorite cemetaries in Oak Ridge, across the rail road tressle. According to my research, it is called the Bradley cemetary...sadly, a few of the graves have been looted...

Yup, when I first went back there it freaked me out to see the dug out graves.
But the tressle is my chill spot. I go there a lot to get away.
I bring a crowbar and turn the redish light thats on the middle cement piller backwards, so it shines against the tressle.
Some one keeps turning it back though...Hm.

Night_Raven wrote:On a sort of related subject do any of you have the names or authors of any books on local hauntings or lost grave yards and such ??

Unfortunately their website is undergoing construction so it kind of sucks for looking at specific titles, but Overmountain Press has a whole category of their catalogue that specializes in local ghost tales, spooky stories, hauntings, cemeteries, etc.

http://www.overmountainpress.com/index1.html

Ladybee wrote:

Night_Raven wrote:On a sort of related subject do any of you have the names or authors of any books on local hauntings or lost grave yards and such ??

Unfortunately their website is undergoing construction so it kind of sucks for looking at specific titles, but Overmountain Press has a whole category of their catalogue that specializes in local ghost tales, spooky stories, hauntings, cemeteries, etc.

http://www.overmountainpress.com/index1.html[/quote ]

Thank you very much

yeah, there are a lot of strange little graveyards in oak ridge. occasionally, the placement of them gets a little wierd, i.e. the one at the bottom of georgia near big ed's.