Inventory of Lewis Johnson Family Cemetery
(sometimes known unofficially as "Garrett")
Copyright 1999 by Debra C. Blackard
Additonal information in [brackets.] Presence of a commercial footstone is indicated by [fs.]
 
Name & Inscription
Notes
Sarah P. Blackard, 2 Apr 1861 - 23 Apr 1861,    
dau. of I. H. & L. I. Blackard    
marble tablet stone on base, lamb, gates of heaven
Lavinia J. Blackard,    
d/o Lewis & Penninah Johnson
D. C. Carothers, 29 Jan 1839 - 25 Jan 1914,    
Dear father, God called you from us. Sleep on _?_ and take thy rest.    
gray marble column topped with open Bible, gates of heaven, [fs]
h/o of Sarah M. Johnson
Eliza Carothers, 1872 - 1955    
gray granite, horizontal slab
d/o of D. S. & Sarah M.    
Carothers
Sarah M., wife of D. S. Carothers, 27 Dec 1839 - 22 Feb 1879    
Gone Home, tall tablet stone on base, open Bible,[broken] [fs]
d/o Lewis & Penninah     
Johnson
[Large family marker]     
Emmer Farmer, 18 Aug 1861 - 22 Aug 1861    
F. E. Farmer, 4 Nov 1874 - 1 Jun 1888    
Ladora Farmer, 5 Aug 1858 - 6 Nov 1858    
T. E. Farmer, 2 Feb 1870 - 28 Jul 1900    
Tennie Farmer, 7 Nov 1855 - 3 Oct 1858    
Willie Farmer, 17 Sep 1862 - 13 Dec 1889    
dark gray marble on base, [each grave has a fs]
children of William &     
Hannah Susan Farmer.     
Hannah S., d/o    
Lewis & Penninah Johnson
John T. Johnson Family, 1825 - 1873    
stone coping enclosure, [two adults, possibly three children    
homemade concrete marker.]
s/o of Lewis & Penninah    
Johnson
Penninah, wife of Lewis Johnson, 17 Feb 1805 - 2 Aug 1888    
table tomb, sides of native stone, brick, & mortar,    
topped by a single stone, abt. 5' x 9' x 6".
 
F. M. Steele, 8 Jul 1859 - 11 Nov 1882,    
Gone Home,    
marble tablet stone, [loose from base, broken.]
 
Nathan L. Steele, 1849 - 30 Jan 1876    
marble tablet stone, [loose from base.]
 
Seventeen other graves have been located.    
Mary C. TURNER , wife of Aaron FRANKLIN, is reported to be     
buried in the Garrett Cemetery.  No marker has been found for her grave.
 
Sources of information: Onsite readings by H. Graham, D. Blackard 26 Nov 1998, and 23 Mar 1999, and an inventory published in the April 1993 issue, Johnson County Historical Society Journal, p. 30.

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