Clear Springs Cemetery

Clear Springs Cemetery in Mascot is located next door to the home I grew up in and is the final resting place of several of my family members. This is a very dear and personal place to me.

David Anthony and Patricia Ann Tanner Cameron, my parents.

My folks.

My dad's veteran marker.

A young David A. Cameron... my old man.

Thomas Hunter and Bertha Dorthula Williams Cameron, my grandparents on my dad's side.

Mamaw and Papaw Cameron

Willie Edgar Berry, my first cousin once removed.

Willie Edgar and wife Edith Mae Frazier Berry

Sissie Lavada and Raymond Edward Berry, my great aunt and uncle.

Uncle Raymond and Aunt Sissie, foreground

Sedrick "Roudy" and Ruby Williams Stout, my great aunt and uncle.

Virgie Adaline Berry McCall, my first cousin once removed.

Frank McCall, husband to Virgie Adaline Berry

Rachel Williams, my great aunt.

Russell Marion "Hoss" Jr. and Cordie Ann Stipes Williams

Russell Marion "Hoss" Williams, Jr.

Robert F. and Amanda M. Williams, my 2nd great uncle and aunt.

Tom and Della Williams

Juanita Howard and Vernie Arthur Maples

The Rev. Edward and Isabella Williams Allen, my great aunt and uncle.

Woodrow Wilson Williams

Wilma Sue Cameron French, my aunt.

Julia Adline Bailey Williams, my great grandmother.

Russell Marion Williams, my great grandfather and husband to Julia Adline Bailey, is also buried in this cemetery but apparently the grave is unmarked. According to the 1900 census, he was a prisoner in the Knox County Jail. I'm going to have to dig deeper...

Where is it?

 The cemetery is located in east Knox County at 3709 Clear Springs Road in Mascot. 

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 36.103387, Longitude: -83.721313 

Who's here?

    

Allen, Dan William "Bud", Jr.
Oct. 6, 1932 - Sep. 6, 2010


Allen, Edward "Ed"
unknown - Jan. 5, 1979


Allen, Rev Harvey Commodore
Mar. 30, 1893 - Nov. 19, 1955


Allen, Isabella Williams
Feb. 19, 1920 - Feb. b., 2006


Allen, Minnie Carol Gibson
Jan. 22, 1951 - May 4, 1986


Allen, Nancy Evelyn Stoffle
Nov. 23, 1894 - May 23, 1971


Allen, Samuel Wiley "Sam"
Nov. 6, 1917 - Apr. 18, 1967


Anderson, Ollie Z. Dalton
Jan. 22, 1925 - Sep. 7, 2012


Banks, Bobby Ray
Oct. 23, 1943 - Apr. 15, 2001


Berry, Edith Mae Frazier
Aug. 17, 1924 - Oct. 20, 2012


Berry, Raymond Edward, Sr.
Aug. 19, 1906 - Sep. 28, 1983


Berry, Sissie Lavada Williams
Jul. 10, 1905 - Feb. 8, 1986


Berry, Willie Edgar
May 10, 1924 - Apr. 18, 2011


Boling, Doy 
Oct. 22, 1926 - Jun. 15, 2012


Boling, Kenneth Henderson
Feb. 11, 1958 - Apr. 16, 2002


Boling, Martha L. McGhee
Jan. 8, 1926 - Dec. 15, 1987


Bruner, Ola Mae Elmore
unknown - Apr. 28, 2009


Cameron, Bertha Dorthula Williams
Sep. 23, 1907 - Mar. 20, 1981


Cameron, David Anthony, Sr.
May 8, 1941 - Oct. 18, 1999


Cameron, Patricia Ann "Pat" Tanner
Oct. 15, 1942 - Mar. 31, 2006


Cameron, Thomas Hunter "Tom"
Dec. 25, 1905 - Jul. 1, 1981


Carroll, Orville
Jan. 5, 1938 - Jul. 30, 2007


Cobb, John Morgan, Sr.
Dec. 3, 1867 - Oct. 8, 1946


CofFeb. y, Carrie Lou Gibson
Jul. 27, 1918 - Mar. 10, 1940


CofFeb. y, Joe Odell
Mar. 8, 1915 - Apr. 15, 1989


Cole, Frances Elizabeth Smart
Dec. 27, 1929 - Apr. 12, 2013


Cole, Roy
Jul. 6, 1926 - Apr. 8, 2009


Daniels, Mary Henry
Jan. 20, 1936 - Feb. 13, 2013


Davis, Dewey, Jr.
unknown - Jan. 26, 2012


Davis, Earl Thomas, Sr.
Apr. 23, 1915 - Aug. 9, 1999


Davis, Elizabeth Cora Grubb
Aug. 5, 1927 - Jun. 15, 2014


Davis, Minnie
May 23, 1944 - Mar. 25, 1945


Dockery, Lillie Bailey
Mar. 30, 1897 - Dec. 23, 1976


Dockery, William O'Dell
Oct. 1, 1908 - Apr. 4, 1999


Foster, Juanita Mae Brown
Jun. 7, 1936 - May 14, 2008


Foster, Michael Robert
Dec. 5, 1956 - Nov. 23, 2009


French, Wilma Sue Cameron
Sep. 19, 1935 - Jun. 11, 2014


Gaines, Mamie Beula Bailey
Dec. 31, 1887 - May 17, 1960


Gibson, Ada McGee
Apr. 1, 1889 - Oct., 1966


Gibson, Carolyn Sue
Dec. 24, 1943 - Mar. 21, 1944


Gibson, Delia Ova
Oct. 20, 1906 - Aug. 4, 1968


Gibson, Emma Hutchison
Mar. 22, 1922 - Jun. 12, 2007


Gibson, Fred
Feb. 22, 1923 - Oct. 28, 1978


Gibson, Hubert "Buck"
Jan. 19, 1914 - Oct. 12, 1975


Gibson, Vernetta
Mar. 19, 1909 - Sep. 23, 1975


Gibson, William "Bill"
Mar. 31, 1881 - Jun. 23, 1959


Gibson, William Tom
Jun. 12, 1912 - Oct., 1988


Griffin, Mrs Laura Sue Maples
1949 - Oct. 7, 2009


Hatfield, Charles Roosevelt
Jul. 24, 1917 - May 4, 2012


Hatfield, Ruby Juanita Walker
Jul. 27, 1936 - Jun. 21, 1994


Keck, Joe Elijah
Jan. 22, 1940 - Apr. 3, 1972


Lester, Lena Mae Walker
Sep. 29, 1930 - Jun. 19, 2002


Lindsey, Judy Hammond
Oct. 2, 1951 - Aug. 16, 2013


Long, Bertha Stapleton
Aug. 28, 1922 - Jun. 16, 2006


Long, Thomas Howard
Oct. 30, 1910 - Nov. 28, 1995


Lusk, Eddie Allen
Nov. 1, 1943 - Oct. 6, 2009


Maddox, John J.
unknown - Mar. 3, 2008


Maples, Juanita Howard
Jun. 24, 1913 - Apr. 6, 2003


McBee, Diane
Jan. 28, 1958 - Oct. 8, 2006


McBee, Jeffery Cleveland
Jul. 13, 1957 - Feb. 18, 2014


McCall, Frank
Aug. 11, 1924 - Nov. 13, 1982


McCall, Infant
unknown - Mar. 25, 1960


McCall, Virgie Adaline Berry
Feb. 11, 1926 - Mar. 27, 1960


McCann, Dorothy Mae Welch
Nov. 26, 1932 - Sep. 17, 2007


McMahan, Judy L. Parker
Aug. 25, 1944 - Mar. 29, 2003


McMahan, Perry Max, Sr.
May 30, 1942 - Feb. 3, 2008


McMahan, Velma Ruth Hurst
Apr. 5, 1924 - Oct. 20, 2006


McMahan, William Clell
Dec. 12, 1920 - Nov. 26, 1998


Mize, Charles Hayes, Sr.
Aug. 12, 1878 - Jun. 14, 1957


Murray, Doris Cruze
Mar. 12, 1932 - Apr. 2, 2014


Mynatt, Rosella Jones
Jul. 26, 1920 - Apr. 18, 2013


Parker, Helen Pauline Richardson
Mar. 16, 1941 - Jun. 17, 1999


Parker, Jesse Ell
Feb. 12, 1910 - Nov. 10, 1969


Parker, Johnnie Troy
Dec. 13, 1929 - Mar. 5, 1973


Parker, Martha Ellen Henry
Aug. 25, 1906 - May 17, 1964


Parker, Tommy H.
Aug. 24, 1947 - Apr. 22, 2007


Patton, James Caswell
Jul. 20, 1869 - Aug. 4, 1953


Phillips, Donald Franklin
Nov. 28, 1934 - Jun. 19, 2014


Roach, John David
Jul. 27, 1928 - Dec. 7, 1989


Roach, Mary Adelyne
Mar. 31, 1928 - Dec. 8, 2012


Roberts, Betty Lou Williams
Sep. 15, 1933 - Sep. 23, 2014


Rose, Kyle Rogers
May 20, 1956 - May 21, 2008


Rush, James Herman
Dec. 23, 1918 - Oct. 30, 2003


Shipe, Evelyn Margaret
unknown - Mar. 24, 2013


Shipe, Ruth Taylor
unknown - Jul. 7, 2011


Stanaland, Timmy Jay
Dec. 7, 1963 - May 11, 2005


Stapleton, Leonard
Nov. 12, 1919 - Jun. 30, 1984


Stipes, Frank Alonzo
Oct. 15, 1905 - Feb. b., 1972


Stipes, Pauline Ada
Nov. 22, 1916 - Mar. 29, 1963


Stout, Ruby Williams
Jan. 11, 1923 - Feb. 13, 2010


Stout, Sedrick "Roudy"
Jun. 30, 1920 - Aug. 9, 1977


Tapp, Essie Maples
unknown - Nov., 2007


Tarwater, Wanda Davis
Jan. 6, 1940 - Apr. 14, 2004


Thomas, Barbara Aileen Parker
May 26, 1940 - Oct. 24, 1992


Walker, Bobbie K.
Jul. 23, 1975 - Jan. 31, 2011


Walker, Bobby Joe
Sep. 11, 1949 - Sep. 16, 1996


Walker, Carl R., Jr.
Feb. 28, 1935 - Mar. 15, 1953


Walker, Carl Roten
Oct. 22, 1903 - Jun. 30, 1979


Walker, Iva Arlene Gaines
Apr. 24, 1907 - Nov. 7, 1992


Walker, Jack Ray
Apr. 10, 2014 - Apr. 10, 2014


Walker, Jake Harry
Apr. 10, 2014 - Apr. 10, 2014


Walker, Sammy Leon
Jul. 6, 1944 - Dec. 27, 1946


Webb, Connie Smith
May 5, 1938 - Oct. 23, 2011


Williams, Arthur Curtis
Mar. 26, 1935 - Nov. 10, 2003


Williams, Barbara Joann
Mar. 29, 1939 - Feb. 28, 1977


Williams, Cordie Stipes
1912 - Nov. 15, 1973


Williams, Fherrie June
Aug. 17, 1931 - Feb. 14, 2014


Williams, Julia Adline Bailey
Sep. 29, 1880 - Oct. 18, 1952


Williams, Rachel A.
Apr. 3, 1911 - Oct. 31, 1999


Williams, Russell
Nov. 15, 1915 - Jan. 24, 1975


Williams, Russell Marion
Feb. 15, 1872 - Jul. 11, 1929


Wilson, Troy Lee
Jun. 23, 1932 - Apr. 15, 2006


Woods, Charles F.
Jun. 19, 1955 - Apr. 26, 2012


Wright, Betty Jo Kitts
unknown - Jan. 29, 2014

Visited often.

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Keep on creepin' and always be respectful!

Mt. Olive Cemetery

The Sultana Memorial. Story below...

The entrance to Mt. Olive Cemetery.

Rudolph Evans and Martha Evans Clemmer

Brewer Family stone

John (aged 9 years) and Arnold Spears (aged 6 years)

Mamia Currence, 1929 - 1972

Rebecca Ford, 1816 - 1893

John B. Varnell, March 14, 1886 - December 11, 1893

Where is it?

 The cemetery is near the Mt. Olive Baptist Church at 2500 Maryville Pike, Knoxville, TN.

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 35.909018, Longitude: -83.936421 

    

This beautiful monument commemorates the lives lost in the largest maritime disaster in the history of the United States, The Sultana.

On April 27, 1865, just weeks after the end of the Civil War, the Mississippi Riverboat, The Sultana was carrying over 2400 people (more than six times its passenger limit) most of which were recently released Union Soldiers from an Alabama Civil War prison camp.

In the middle of the night, an explosion in the ship's boilers doomed over 1800 people to death. Some managed to swim to shore in Memphis while others clung for hours to trees or wood from the ship's wreckage. 
Many of the passengers were too weakened from injury or from conditions suffered in prison to survive.  
Many drowned or died from hypothermia.  
Bodies were found downriver for months and some were never recovered at all. 

The official cause of the Sultana disaster was determined to be mismanagement of water levels in the boiler along with extreme overcrowding. 
Still, many believe the disaster was no accident and was actually causes by a torpedo disguised as an ordinary lump of coal. 
Supposedly, a man named Robert Louden, a confederate, confessed upon his deathbed to sabotaging the Sultana as a final act of revenge against the union.

Ultimately, despite the enormousness of this disaster, no one was ever held accountable.

Names of those from Tennessee listed on the Sultana Memorial:

Allen D.

Allen F. J.

Anderson J.

Anderson J. F.

Anderson T.

Atchely T.

Atchley P. A.

Atsher W.

Badget B.

Badgett J. D.

Baggart M

Bailey R. M.

Bailey W.

Baker G.

Baker J.

Baker J.

Baker W. A.

Barley W. J.

Barnett A.

Basley W. J.

Battles I.

Battles W. F.

Bayless W.

Bean JKP

Beard J. O.

Bell F. M.

Bennett E. M.

Bishop J.

Bishop W.

Blane M.

Bogert C. H.

Bogert S. F.

Bookout J. L.

Brandon J.

Brock J. A.

Brooks J.

Brown J. H.

Brown M. E.

Brown M. S.

Brown P. H.

Brown W. M.

Brownley J. B.

Burnett H. O.

Burnett W. B

Campbell J. H.

Campbell N. J.

Campbell W.

Cantrell J.

Caree J. R.

Cartney J. S.

Carver W.

Caryhm J. B.

Cash H. W.

Castney W. S.

Chandler B.

Cochoran H.

Collins J. B.

Collins J. H.

Collins J. R.

Conner G. W.

Copeland J.

Copper R.

Cowan S. A.

Cox J.

Crawford H. P.

Crusoc W. R.

Culp A. J.

Cunningham J

Cursick D.

Curtin R. A.

Curtis J. T.

Daily J.

Davenport J. V.

Davis E.

Davis G. C.

Davis J. A.

Davis W.

DeArmond H. H.

DeArmond L.

DeArmond S.

DeArmond T.

Demman T.

Derryburg J. H.

Develin J.

Dickens N.

Dickerson J.

Doherty J. M.

Donaldson D. D.

Douglass J. E.

Draper P.

Dronsyea R.

Dunlap

Dunlap S. P.

Dyer S. A.

Ellenberry J.

Elliott J. W.

Ellison

Elza R. M.

Emenery W.

Estes J.

Evans

Everett J.

Everett W.

Farmer A.

Farmer E.

Farmer E.

Farmer G.

Farmer J. A.

Farmer J. O.

Fergerson W. H.

Fergeson J. H.

Finger A.

Finger F.

Finley B. N.

Firrett W.

Fowler A.

Franelen J. V.

Franklin J. H.

Frazier J.

Fuller J.

Gamble M.

Gibson D.

Giffin H.

Giffin Holston

Golden J.

Graham L.

Gray M. L.

Grier J. A.

Gross A.

Haback G.

Hackney R. L.

Hamilton H. C.

Hamilton J.

Hamilton R. N.

Hancock W. B.

Hand J. F.

Haren W.

Harover J.

Harris W.

Hastshan R.

Haun M.

Hedrick D. A.

Henderson J. C.

Henry J. W.

Hessinger H. P.

Hickman B.

Hickox J. E.

Hicks J. H.

Hill W. S.

Hinchy L. C.

Hines J.

Hines O. A.

Hodge J. W.

Hooper J. H.

Houser H.

Houser L.

Howard T. A.

Howell E.

Hudson P.

Huffager J. W.

Huffaker J. M.

Humbrick H.

Hurry J.

Husted T. D.

Hyden D. A.

Jack M.

Jefferes W.

Jenkins S.

Johnson

Johnson A.

Johnson J. M.

Johnson W.

Johnson W. R.

Jones J. W.

Jones O. C.

Karns S.

Kaywood B. F.

Keeble J. H.

Keeble P. M.

Kennedy G. W.

Kidd Alex

Kidd J.

Kidd J. W.

Kimble J. H.

King G.A.

Kinneman J. M.

Kinneman S.

Kinsha G. S.

Kirkpatrick J. R.

Kirkpatrick W. C.

Knight J.

Knight J. D.

Lackley J. B

Lansom G. M.

Lapl J. H.

Leak A

Leak W.

Lee E.

Lee J.

Leek J.

Lemons L.

Leonard T. J.

Lesley J.

Lingingfelter H. T.

Lingingfleter G. T.

Linsey J. R.

Long A.

Long J.

Long M. B.

Lost D. M.

Luttrell W.

Madgett R.

Mann W. S.

Mansfield W. S.

Mansfield Z. M.

Maples H. C.

Marr B. L.

Matlock G.

Maxwell G. W.

May M. V.

McClannihan D.

McClawson J. M.

McClure M. D.

McDowell W.

McKann A.

McMurray R. B.

McMurray W.

McPhail D. M.

McPhall B.

McPherson J. A.

McTeay D.

Meek R.

Memsel C.

Miles J.

Millard L. R.

Miller J. W.

Mills J. F.

Mills W.

Millsaps J.

Millsaps W. J.

Milton W.

Minsey R.

Moffatt J.

Montgomery C.

Montgomery J. L.

Morrison T. C.

Mossey J. J.

Murphty J. M.

Murphy E. A.

Murphy J.

Mussin H. M.

Neiley W. N.

Nevins L.

Newman G.

Nichols D.

Noe W.

Norman J.

Odin P. H.

OHenger M.

Ouslisvan R. T.

Palmer W. N.

Patty J. A.

Payne J. P.

Perry A. T.

Phelps J. M.

Phelps O.

Phelps W.

Pickens S.

Pierce R.

Pieree R. M.

Pinkney W. C.

Plumons T. J.

Powell J.

Pryor M.

Purger W.

Rale B.

Ramsey M.

Ramsey M. C.

Ray P.

Rease L.

Rease W.

Reed R.

Reed W. M.

Renlan T.

Rice J. M

Richter H.

Riddle J. R.

Roberson J.

Robinson H.

Rodgers M. H.

Rogers J. A.

Rogers T. W.

Rogers W.

Rogers W. J.

Rolen B. W.

Romines G. R.

Romines L.

Romines S.

Rule B.

Rule C.

Rule S.

Russell A.

Russell B.

Russell C.

Russell N.

Russell O. C.

Russell R. T

Sanders D.

Sangler J. M.

Saylor J.

Scott J.

Scott J.

Scroggs I.

Shelton C. G.

Shorts J. W.

Simpson A. A.

Simpson J. H.

Simpson J. I.

Small H. J.

Smith J.

Smith J. P.

Smith J. R.

Smith W. D.

Splann A.

Sprangle G.

Stanley M.

Station H.

Stevens J.

Stone W.

Strickley M.

Stroud J. N.

Sullivan O. P.

Sumner J. B.

Sumney J.

Swaggarty W. S.

Swaggerty S.

Tarver J.

Thomas H.

Thomas M.

Thomas N.

Thompson M.

Thompson R.

Thompson U.

Tipton A.

Tipton C.

Tipton C. C.

Tipton J.

Trabough J.

Trent R. A.

Turner R.

Ursery J. R.

Varnell A. P.

Vineyard A.

Wade J. W.

Wade W. D.

Wadell S. M.

Walberton P.

Walker B. B.

Wayland L. A.

White J.

Whitman R.

Whittenberger D. A.

Williams D. M

Williams E.

Williams N. C.

Williams N. G.

Williams S. H.

Wilson A.

Woods J.

Woods J. E.

Woods L.

Wright W.

Wrinkle A

Wylers L.

This photo shows The Sultana as it passes by in Arkansas just prior to the explosion.

There are nearly three thousand interments at this cemetery.





Visited August 17, 2014 and March 30, 2015

Thanks for visiting this page. If you have any additional information about this, or any other, cemetery in the Smokies, please let me know.

Keep on creepin' and always be respectful!