NameAnn E. THOMAS
Birth Date16 Oct 1798
Birth PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Death Date25 Mar 1877 Age: 78
Death PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Burial PlaceBlount County, Tennessee, Brakebill Cemetery
BD Also Listed 11 Mar 1798
Johannes was anglicized to John because all of the Brakebills were patriotic Americans and they desired to speak the language of their country.
When Peter Breakbill died in 1844, he and his wife, were living with their son, John, on the John Brakebill farm on Nails Creek. Because there were very few church cemeteries in 1844, it was general custom to bury the early pioneers on the property where they lived. Thus, Peter Brakebill was the first person to be buried in the Brakebill Cemetery on Nails Creek, across from the present day Cedar Grove Baptist Church. Several members of the Brakebill family are buried in the small Brakebill Family Cemetery.
The burials in the Brakebill Cemetery on Bays Mountain, just north from Nails Creek, nine and one-half miles northeast from Maryville, Tennessee, are from the Parham Cemetery Records, pages 13-14, published in 1947 by Will E. Parham, a noted genealogist who lived in Maryville, Tenessee. He did extensive research on the Brakebill Families. His records may be found in the McClung Room of the Lawson-McGhee Library, Knoxville, Tenneessee.
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Marriages of Blount CO TN 1795-1859
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