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Fooshee Cemetery

Ten Mile, Meigs County, Tennessee, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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FOOSHEE CEMETERY, also known as FOOSHEE BEND CEMETERY and #43 FOOSHEE PRIVATE CEMETERY (TVA), was a cemetery located near the Tennessee River in the Fooshee Bend area of Meigs County, Tennessee. The cemetery was used during the 1800s by John Fooshee and his family who had moved into the area from Roane County, Tennessee in 1819/1820. The cemetery was located on the top part of what was believed to be an Indian mound that always remained above the waters of the Tennessee River during times of flooding. Fooshee descendants stated John Fooshee (died 1844), Absalom Fooshee (died 1879), and other family members were buried in the cemetery. The cemetery was completely submerged under the Watts Bar Reservoir when the Watts Bar Dam was completed on the Tennessee River by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1942. Before the construction of the dam, the TVA conducted surveys of the cemeteries that would be affected by the waters of the reservoir. The #43 Fooshee Cemetery was shown at mile 533.5, opposite the south end of the Fooshee Island (now also submerged), on the Meigs County side of the Tennessee River. The cemetery was listed as having twenty-two graves and two gravestones. After the late 1800s, livestock had been allowed to graze in the cemetery and had broken most of the gravestones. The two graves with legible headstones, those of John R. Fooshee and wife, Susan Hinds Fooshee, were removed and reinterred at West View Cemetery in Sweetwater, Tennessee. The remaining graves were left undisturbed and are now under the waters of the reservoir.(Teresa W. Wiese)
FOOSHEE CEMETERY, also known as FOOSHEE BEND CEMETERY and #43 FOOSHEE PRIVATE CEMETERY (TVA), was a cemetery located near the Tennessee River in the Fooshee Bend area of Meigs County, Tennessee. The cemetery was used during the 1800s by John Fooshee and his family who had moved into the area from Roane County, Tennessee in 1819/1820. The cemetery was located on the top part of what was believed to be an Indian mound that always remained above the waters of the Tennessee River during times of flooding. Fooshee descendants stated John Fooshee (died 1844), Absalom Fooshee (died 1879), and other family members were buried in the cemetery. The cemetery was completely submerged under the Watts Bar Reservoir when the Watts Bar Dam was completed on the Tennessee River by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1942. Before the construction of the dam, the TVA conducted surveys of the cemeteries that would be affected by the waters of the reservoir. The #43 Fooshee Cemetery was shown at mile 533.5, opposite the south end of the Fooshee Island (now also submerged), on the Meigs County side of the Tennessee River. The cemetery was listed as having twenty-two graves and two gravestones. After the late 1800s, livestock had been allowed to graze in the cemetery and had broken most of the gravestones. The two graves with legible headstones, those of John R. Fooshee and wife, Susan Hinds Fooshee, were removed and reinterred at West View Cemetery in Sweetwater, Tennessee. The remaining graves were left undisturbed and are now under the waters of the reservoir.(Teresa W. Wiese)

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  • Added: 4 Jun 2013
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2499179