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Roark Cemetery
Forge Creek, Johnson County, Tennessee

Location

Located at the end of B. Wilson Road in pasture. Turn left off of Fall Branch Road, about 1 mile above Walnut Grove Baptist Church in Johnson County, Tennessee.

Sources of Names Listed

Jeffrey L. Carrier visited the Roark Cemetery on 07 June 1983.

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

Cemetery Names and Information

W. McKinley Roark
23 Aug 1904-
[William Author McKinley Roark s/o John C. Roark & Jennie Phillips
Md. 1st Nora Elsie Vanover (see listings for children by Nora Elsie Vanover, Arnold Cemetery)
Md. 2nd Mary Jettnie Vanover]
(and
Mary J. Roark
30 Jul 1900 (Ashe Co NC)
27 Feb 1973
[Mary Jettnie Vanover d/o Ulysses Grant Vanover & Laura Osborne
2nd w/o William Author McKinley Roark (sister to McKinley’s first wife)]

Sources

1. Upon A Lonely Hill The Cemeteries of Johnson County, Tennessee by Jeffrey L. Carrier
2. John B. Rochelle

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This page added 5 December 2005 and last updated 5 December 2005.