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Marion Johnson Cemetery
Walnut Grove, Johnson County, Tennessee

Index of Surnames Included

You may click on one of the surnames below to go to the first image with that surname. Click here to go to the first grave marker image or here to see views of the cemetery or views from inside the cemetery.

Location and other Information

Located in the Walnut Grove Community, Johnson County, Tennessee.
This cemetery contains the family of Marion Emanuel C. Johnson. From Walnut Grove Church, take driveway to left just before intersection with Wilson Branch. Go up gravel driveway (trailers to the right) and take sharp left-handed gravel drive, which then buttonhooks up and to the right again to the cemetery. Census records list him as Marion E. C. or Marion C. Johnson, and he is buried as Manuel Johnson. The "E" probably stands for Emanuel. The cemetery is being listed as the Marion Johnson Cemetery to further facilitate distinguishing it from the many other Johnson Cemeteries in Johnson County, TN.

Pictures Taken

These pictures were taken at Marion Johnson Cemetery in Walnut Grove, Johnson County, Tennessee on 28 May 2003 by John B. Rochelle and he is the owner of all images unless otherwise noted.

Sources of Names Listed

The listing that follows is derived from the readings by and photographs taken by John B. Rochelle on 28 May 2003 and some additional obituaries. We have used an alphabetical listing by last name.

Information in brackets [sample] was provided by John B. Rochelle unless indicated otherwise.

Views of Marion Johnson Cemetery

• Johnson Cemetery, Marion, view

Carroll, Melvin & Bonnie

• Carroll, Melvin
  1943-1969
  footstone
  (currently not identified)
  (and

• Carroll, Bonnie
  1947-1967
  In living memory
  w/o Melvin Carroll
  alt view
  footstone
  (currently not identified)
  http://www.obitcentral.com/obitsearch/obits/tn/tn-johnson2.htm
  DEALIA DENNY

  Dealia Denny, 91, 919 Medical Park Drive, Mountain City, passed away Friday morning in the Watauga Medical Center in Boone, North Carolina. She was a native of Johnson County, a daughter of the late William Elbert and Nora Turnmire Lipford and was a housewife. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Emmitt Lipford, Glen Lipford and Marvin Lipford; one sister, Mae Lipford Pope.

  Survivors include one son, Wayne "Sammy" Lipford Burgaw, North Carolina; two sisters, Nell Lipford, Mountain City, Tennessee; Lorene Johnson, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; one uncle, John K. Turnmire, Sr.; two grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

  Funeral services were conducted Sunday, June 3, 2001 at 8 p.m. from the Henson Funeral Home Chapel with Wayne Baker officiating. Pallbearers were Lynn Courtney, Alan Lipford, Mark Lipford, Warren Lipford, Timmy Church and Blaine Lipford.

  Honorary pallbearers were Sam Nelson, Glen Lipford Jr. and Billy Lipford.

  Graveside services and interment were conducted Monday, June 4, 2001 at 10 a.m. from the Johnson Cemetery, Fall Branch Road, Mountain City, TN.

  Henson Funeral was in charge of the arrangements.

  Unknown
• funeral home marker
  (rusted out)
  (currently not identified)

  J. R.

• J. R.
  (handscratched onto headstone)
  (currently not identified)

  Johnson, Bobby O.

• Johnson, Bobby O.
  22 Sep 1942-06 July 1989
  (currently not identified)

  Johnson, Callie Madge

• Johnson, Callie Madge
  06 Sep 1977-07 Sep 1977
  footstone
  (currently not identified)

  Johnson, Claude J. & Lillian M.

• Johnson, Claude J.
  1902-1981
  fhm
  [Claude J. Johnson
  s/o Marion Emanuel C. Johnson & Mary Belle Stewart
  Md. Lillian M. _____]
  (and

• Johnson, Lillian M.
  1909-1998
  Johnson, Mary Lillian
  fhm
  [w/o Claude J. Johnson]
  (currently not identified)

  Johnson, Harry C.

• Johnson, Harry C.
  15 Aug 1945-27 July 1991
  (currently not identified)

• Johnson, Lucy
  d. 21 Nov 1830 (sic)
  Aged 30y 2m 11d
  In memory of
  (marker not noted in 2003, information from Upon A Lonely Hill, by Jeffrey L. Carrier)
  (currently not identified)

• Johnson, Manuel C.
  1876-1964 [died Nov. 17, 1964]
  [Marion Emanuel C. Johnson
  s/o Andrew Johnson & Nancy Main
  Md. Mollie B. Goodman 09 Nov 1901 JCT]
  (currently not identified)

  Johnson, Mary Bell

• Johnson, Mary Bell
  1880-1963 [Aug. 5, 1963]
  [Mary Belle "Mollie" Stewart
  d/o Silas Monroe Goodman & Elsa Abigail Stuart
  w/o Marion Emanuel C. Johnson]
  (currently not identified)

  Johnson, Marion

• Johnson, Marion
  (fhm)
  1905-1969 [Nov. 28, 1905 — Mar. 1, 1969]
  [Marion Carmon Johnson
  s/o Marion Emanuel C. Johnson & Mary Belle Goodman]
  (currently not identified)

  Johnson, Samuel Joseph

• Johnson, Samuel Joseph
  (fhm)
  (currently not identified)

  Johnson, Zollie and Mary
  Johnson, Zollie L.

• Johnson, Zollie L.
  13 May 1908 — 06 Feb 1981
  [Zollie L. Johnson
  s/o Marion Emanuel C. Johnson & Mary Belle Goodman
  Md. Mary E. _____]
  (and

  Johnson, Mary

• Johnson, Mary E.
  07 Oct 1918 — 07 Nov 1979
  footmarker
  [Mary E. _____
  w/o Zollie L. Johnson]
  (currently not identified)

  Lunsford, Tommy H.

• Lunsford, Tommy H.
  1956-1984
  (currently not identified)

• Woodard, Randy Keith
  1969-1970
  (marker not noted in 2003, listing from Upon A Lonely Hill, by Jeffrey C. Carrier)
  [s/o Geneva Woodard]

Sources

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This page added 5 November 2003 and last updated 2 July 2004.

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