Rockwood and the Roane Iron Company

From tn type's online photo albums

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland : Electronic Edition by Edward King and illustrated by James Wells Champney published in 1875 includes this drawing of Rockwood's Roane Iron Company and a little bit about the early iron industry in Roane County.

The full text is available online | here |. The section on Roane County, Tennessee can easily be located in the document using control f with roane as the search term.

christmas in august rockwood tennessee style

 



on the first weekend of december every year, many rockwood, tn residents open the doors of their homes to visitors for the rockwood christmas tour of historic homes. i've heard about it for a couple of years, and since the moment i heard, i've been telling myself that i need to make my roane county visits coincide with it - at least once. until her sudden death last year, a distant cousin, sara grasham mee, was one of the tour's organizers. in doing a search on my ellis family today, i came across a wonderful set of pages that let me remember sara and let me tour some of rockwood's homes any time i want. they're all part of a site called rockwood 2000+ :

• an introduction to the tours which explains what they're all about is here


• on that page, too,is a photo of my cousin sara (in red, on the left)


• part of a news release for the 2005 tour was a tribute to sara link


• photos of the homes that were featured last year are here


• the photos for the 2004 tour include many indoor shots and give, i think, a better flavor of the kind of celebration the tour really is. the 2004 pages can be accessed here

♥ and maybe my two favorite albums - because i feel like i'm walking around rockwood - are here and here [this last one is a two-page pdf brochure with a walking tour of the town.♥

roane county, tennesse genealogy records - document photos of primary materials

in addition to creating web photo albums for the delozier cemetery and the bethel cemetery in roane county, tn today, i have also begun an album that has photographs and/or scans of some of my primary source records which county genealogists can download for their personal, noncommercial use (see copyright notices in my albums). the permanent link to this tn type picasaweb album is http://picasaweb.google.com/
TnType/DelozierCemeteryEmoryGapRoaneCoTennessee

the album name is roane county, tennessee genealogy sources

the initial postings to the album follow:

• French HAGGARD 1848-1918, Death Certificate
• Jane HAGGARD (nee GILLILAND) - Roane Co, TN documentation showing she was the daughter of Robert GILLILAND
• 1890 Roane County, Tn marriage license for James MAJORS and Rachel MONTGOMERY

delozier cemetery, emory gap, roane co, tn - photo album

i've uploaded a tn type album of the delozier cemetery located in emory gap, roane county, tennessee to my picasaweb public genealogy photo gallery.

bethel cemetery, kingston, roane county, tennessee - photo album

google's free picasa photo software now has a web album generator that will upload member photos directly to picasaweb.google.com. i have just uploaded a small album of photos taken at the bethel historic cemetery in kingston, tn to a new Tn Type site there. you can always check all of my public TnType picasaweb albums by using the link http://picasaweb.google.com/TnType. any of the photos posted in my public gallery may be downloaded for personal, noncommercial use in your genealogy research. find my bethel cemetery album | here | .

bean cemetery at whites creek, rhea county, tennessee

i have just published a photo album of the bean community cemetery at white's creek in rhea co, tn. through the album you can access photos, family notes, transcripts, and mapping. it's available on my companion rootsweb site | here |.

(note that the 1930s wpa survey of this cemetery called it the kirkland cemetery. locals say, however, that this always been the bean cem,ketery.)

roane co, tn cemetery listings, photos, and transcripts

view roane county, tennessee cemetery photo albums, and transcriptions i have posted on companion pages of this blog (always free access!)


here on my rootsweb pages


and

here on Tn Type, a companion blog to this one

some surnames in the albums: giles, ellis, mcpherson, brashear, haggard, majors, phillips, morgan, kurtz, brandon, montgomery, and more....


check the links often for new additions...

update:you can also view tn type's public picasaweb roane county, tennessee cemetery albums | here |

cemetery photo album - brashear or brashears family cemetery, roane co, tennessee

i just posted a 61 page photo album of the brashear family cemetery, sugar grove valley, roane county, tennessee at one of my companion sites. it joins the photo albums of other roane county cemeteries that i've posted on my rootsweb site.

here's an index of the descriptions:

the elmer & linda edwards home - built on top of brashears ruins. the cemetery is behind this house.


sign on edwards house front porch. the house is now deserted. (2004)


overview of the cemetery with the robert samuel brashears grave marked


robert s. brashears, born may 20, 1731 - date of death not on stone


robert samuel brashears (lower right) - context shot


mary brashears - fragment 1


mary brashears -fragment 2 - died may 23, 1872


emily s. brashears, born jan 10, 1844, died may 25, 18[71]


unknown soldier, co h, [8 or 18] tenn inf


sarah j. roberts, dau of joseph and mary brashears, wife of bf roberts


george wc brashears, 1810-1840 - taken 2003 - compare with next


george w.c. brashears, 1810-1840 - this is 2004 - comapare with previous


unknown - grave marked by stone


bassil brashears, born may 7, 1781 - death not on stone


side and overview of fenced area


louisa - wife of samuel roberts - inside fence


mary j. kries 1851-1882


william b. carmichael


mandy c. brashears 1831-1835 - fallen marker


samuel brashears - fragments died aug 29 [1840]


samuel - infant son of b and margaret roberts 1858


unknown - deteriorated marker


unknown - marker fragment


john brashears, oct 17, 1860-nov 6, 1860


john brashears 1860


unknown - stone fragment marks grave near louisa roberts


samuel roberts 1871-1873


fenced in plot with louisa roberts - outside: infant ladd


william deitrick - son of frank and dora ladd


ladd - infant of frank and dora


ladd and wright plot


unknown - deteriorated marker


marker fragments - unknown


joseph - may be hester but near john brashears


unknown - cannot read marker


unknown


unknown - may be a foot stone


mary elonar francis brashears, may 8, 1859-nov 12, 1861


mary elon francis brashears, j. fagan, grave marker maker (bottom left corner)


josheph camel brashears


josheph camel brashers , 1857, 1861


joseph camel brashears 1857, 1861 - near samuel roberts


samuel h. roberts, 1871-1873


john brashears, co e, 1 tenn inf


john brashears, co e, 1 tenn inf


mary a., oldest daughter of churful and mary a. hester, 1865-1912


dora kries, wife of frank ladd


frank ladd, 1852-1922


kries, raney , brashears with a 7th great-granddaughter of robert s brashear


freddie earl, son of harvey and ida wright, 1909-1910


ida belle hester wright


infant son of dj and maggie wright, apr 3, 18[8?]4


lija lankford - listed in books as elijah lankford


am nichol - co f, [154 ill inf]


elsie, dau of dj and mary e collins


mary m, dau of [d]j and m [c]ollins, d 23 sep 1875


ladds, infant raney, ida belle hester wright, mary a. hester


lima, dau of ph and mt mcclellan, 11 jul 1900-22 jul 1901


overview - edwards house would be to the right, behind the pines


jennie bell - dau of frank and dora ladd


elizabeth brashears, d sept 5, 1879

newport - garrison cemetery, rhea co, tn (asa newport)

asa newport, 7 oct 1902 - 15 dec 1876, newport cemetery, rhea co, tn (also found in records as the garrison cemetery)

Located south of Rockwood, TN, this cemetery may be listed in other sources as the Garrison Cemetery. Edna Clack, another Newport descendant, however, makes a strong argument that this was the Newport family cemetery, located on Newport land, and so should be listed as the "Newport Cemetery." I follow her lead in my own research.

We visited the cemetery on 27 Sep 2003. Though the small woods that surround it are ovregrown and full of prickly vines, the graves and the surviving stones themselves appear to be well kept. A few silk flowers were on graves. The cemetery is now located on land owned by Lakeside Resort. A resort worker told us that the resort and the land had still been called Newport less than a decade ago. A small in-ground TVA marker is at the entrance path to the cemetery.