Sacred Ground: Riverview Cemetery
At Smokey Junction, on a small knoll overlooking New River, is the Riverview Cemetery — the foremost burial ground of what is likely Scott County’s oldest settlement.
Long before the railroad came through in the early 20th century and this fertile bottomland area where Smokey Creek empties into New River came to be known as Smokey Junction, folks were settling here and farming those stream banks. It started with Mikel “Grand Mikey” Low — perhaps Scott County’s first permanent white settler, who migrated here and settled on Smokey Creek sometime in the early 1800s — and grew from there.
There are a number of small burial grounds up and down Smokey Creek, and some larger cemeteries, as well. But at the junction, which would grow to become the hub of this settlement, the need for a community cemetery gave rise to Riverview.
If the cemetery had a name in the early days, it has been forgotten by time. But it came to be known as Riverview Cemetery — same name as the church that was later established there.
Riverview Baptist Church was established in 1909. It was the second of two churches at Smokey Junction. The other was Corinth Baptist Church, which had been established in 1887 at nearby Shoal Creek and later moved to the junction at about the same time Riverview Baptist Church was being founded.
According to Janet Lowe, the daughter of Odis and Janis Owens (more on the Owens family and their ties to this story later), the Riverview Baptist Church meeting house was located in the cemetery until 1968, when it moved to its current location, a former school house on the hill directly across the road from Hembree’s Store, a short distance from the cemetery.
Meanwhile, services continued at the Corinth Baptist Church, which was located at the entrance to the cemetery, according to Lowe, until 1987. At that point, the church disbanded.
But burials at the Riverview Cemetery far predated the building of church houses there. And that’s where the story of this burial ground begins.
Beginnings
With more than 300 graves, Riverview Cemetery is one of the larger cemeteries in Scott County. It has far fewer graves than the three biggest cemeteries — Hazel Valley, Black Creek Crossroads and Carson Memorial — but it has more than nearby Smokey Creek Cemetery, making it the largest cemetery in this part of the county.
The cemetery is still active today. As such, it has a unique mixture of graves marked by commercial headstones, many of them elaborate, and older graves that are marked by simple field stones.
Unfortunately, most of those field stones have been rendered illegible by time, or they were never inscribed to begin with. There are dozens of them, and so it is impossible to know everyone who is buried at Riverview, or exactly how far back the cemetery dates.
What is known is that the first verifiable grave came in 1834. There is a field stone in the center of the cemetery — among the many illegible or uninscribed stones — that simply contains the initials “B.K.P.” and the date “1834.”
Was this the first burial at Riverview? As likely as not, the answer is no. There are simply too many graves marked by uninscribed field stones to believe that at least a few of them didn’t predate the September 1838 burial. But absent additional evidence, the historical record of Riverview Cemetery can only be dated to 1834.
There were four early burials that can be confirmed: “B.K.P.” in 1834, “J.P.” in September 1838, “J.P.” in September 1838, Gabriel Patterson in December 1838, and “S.P.” in September 1844. That was followed by the burial of “M.K.” in 1851.
After that, there wasn’t another confirmed burial at the cemetery until August 1870, when an “L.S.” was buried there. A month later, Sarahan Cross was buried there. Burials began to increase in frequency after that.
The Patterson family
The first verifiable grave at Riverview is Gabriel Patterson, who died Sept. 27, 1838, at the age of 24.
It’s very likely that the graves near his that are inscribed “J.P.” (Sept. 18, 1838) and “S.P.” (Sept. 27, 1844) are his parents, John Robert Patterson and Sallie Keith Patterson.
The Patterson family originally settled further up New River, in what would later become known as the Rosedale area of Anderson County. In fact, the Patterson clan is still very prominent in that part of Anderson County today. There are several Patterson cemeteries along the S.R. 116 corridor in the mountains of Anderson County, and Gabriel Patterson’s grandfather — William Patterson — is buried in one of them, not far from Rosedale School. Several other members of Gabriel Patterson’s family are buried there, as well.
William Patterson was a Revolutionary War veteran who settled first in Hawkins County, then moved to Anderson County. His war pension application contains a wealth of information about his service during America’s fight for independence from Great Britain.
William Patterson and his wife, Nancy English (who is also buried at Patterson Cemetery at Rosedale), had up to 12 children. John Robert Patterson may have been the oldest of them; he may have been born as early as 1776.
The 1830 census lists John Patterson in Anderson County. Prior to the formation of Scott County in 1849, the Smokey area would have been a part of Anderson County. There were nine other persons listed in that census as a part of his household, including eight under the age of 20 and three of them under the age of five. Based on that, it would not be an unreasonable assumption that John Patterson was born later than 1776 — though, absent documentation of some sort, there’s no way to know for sure.
There are several questions that these early burials at Riverview leave us with: How did John Patterson and his family wind up at Smokey, several miles away from the rest of the family? Did they live in the vicinity of what would become Riverview Cemetery (which seems likely)? And what did John Patterson and his son, Gabriel, die of, just nine days apart?
While the proximity of the stones and the little available documentation allow for a reasonable conclusion that the graves “J.P.” and “S.P.” at Riverview are John and Sallie Patterson, there is unfortunately not a lot of additional information about the family. The 1830 census indicates that John and Sallie may have had as many as eight children, but what became of them?
Patterson family research indicates that Gabriel Patterson married Elizabeth Finley, and that they had one child: Jeremiah Monroe Patterson. Elizabeth remarried after her husband’s death, and the family moved from Smokey to North Carolina.
The only other of John and Sallie Patterson’s children that can be traced is Sally Patterson. She married Absalom Johnson “A.J.” Cross in 1856, and died in 1888. While they’re both buried at Massey Cemetery, A.J.’s parents — Absalom Abraham Cross and Mary Cross — may both be buried at Riverview Cemetery.
Given the fact that Riverview Cemetery apparently started as a Patterson family cemetery, it’s reasonable to also assume that “B.K.P.,” who died in 1834, was also a member of the Patterson family. But who? Perhaps another of John and Sallie’s children? If so, the answer might be Billy Patterson, a child of John and Sallie who was born in 1795.
The Cross family
The next verifiable grave at Riverview is that of Sarahan Cross, who died Sept. 14, 1870. (Mary Queener Cross, the wife of Absalom Abraham Cross, died in 1872 and is said to be buried at Riverview, but a stone cannot be found to verify that information.) It isn’t clear who Sarahan Cross was, and the flat stone is very difficult to decipher. Could it have been Sarah Ann Cross? She may have been a member of Absalom Cross’s family, and perhaps of Sally Patterson Cross’s family, which would possibly make her a descendant of John and Sallie Patterson.
There are two graves at Riverview that remain a mystery. One is hand-carved with the initials “M.K.,” the date “1851” and also “DC AG 23.” The other, “W.K.,” was listed in Robert Bailey’s 1994 book “Cemeteries of Scott County, Tennessee” as dying in 1883. However, that stone can no longer be located.
The next grave is that of Margarett “Peggy” Massengale Cross, the wife of William Alexander Cross, who died on Dec. 12, 1886. It is the oldest commercial stone at Riverview Cemetery. She was the daughter-in-law of Absalom Abraham Cross, so as recently as 1886, the only burials at Riverview Cemetery were apparently those of the Patterson and Cross families.
William Alexander Cross was also buried at Riverview when he died in 1919, and several of his and Peggy’s children are also buried there, including Jake Queener Cross (his middle name was his grandmother’s maiden name), Joe Cross, Ab Cross, Andy Cross and Mary Jane Cross Anderson.
Many of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are also buried at Riverview.
Mary Jane Cross married George B. Anderson, from another family that lived nearby. His parents, Phillip Anderson and Nancy Tackett Anderson, are both buried at Riverview, as are he and his brother, John Thomas “Tom” Anderson.
The grave of two-year-old Luverna Tackett, who was the daughter of Nancy Tackett Anderson’s nephew, can also be found at Riverview Cemetery. Luverna was the great-granddaughter of William and Peggy Cross. His granddaughter, Elizabeth (daughter of Joe Cross) married into the Tackett family, which lived at nearby Clinchmore.
Several other members of the Anderson family were buried at Riverview in the 1890s.
A community cemetery
By the early 1900s, Riverview Cemetery was expanding, and transforming from a family cemetery to a community cemetery. Clinchmore Baptist Church moved to the entrance to the cemetery around 1908 or 1909, and Riverview Baptist Church was established with a meeting house just a stone’s throw away from the cemetery in 1909. The railroad would arrive at about the same time, as the Tennessee Railroad was being built up New River into Anderson County.
At one point, the cemetery came to be known as the “Enmon and Kizzie Lowe Owens Memorial Cemetery,” in honor of the couple who owned the property in latter years. It was Enmon and Kizzie who donated the two-story building at the cemetery that housed Corinth Baptist Church for many years. The ground floor served as the church’s sanctuary, while the upper floor was used by the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, as well as a work room for the ladies of the church, who made mattresses and quilts during World War II.
Kizzie Lowe was a great-great-granddaughter of Mikel Low, the first white settler in the Smokey area. Her parents were Ewell Lowe and Melvina Cross Lowe (her grandparents were Alex and Almira Massingale Low, and her great-grandparents were Phillip Low Sr. and Sarah Carroll Low).
Melvina Cross, Kizzie Lowe’s mother, was another member of the Cross family that was prominent in the Smokey area during the early days of Riverview. She was the daughter of Joe Cross, granddaughter of William Alexander Cross, and a sister to Elizabeth Cross Tackett.
Enmon Owens, meanwhile, was originally from Jellico Creek, the son of Joseph F. Owens and Mary Chambers Owens. He was a descendent of the Adkins family that was prominent in that area.
Enmon and Kizzie were married in 1917, and joined the Corinth Baptist Church in 1932. Enmon would later serve as a deacon of the church.
At one point, a monument was placed at the cemetery denoting it the “Enmon and Kizzie Owens Memorial Cemetery.” However, it has since been removed.
Of course, Enmon and Kizzie Owens are both buried at the cemetery. So, too, is Enmon’s brother, Dilmon Owens Sr., his wife, Talitha Lowe Owens, and several of their children: Hobert Owens, Dilmon Owens Jr., Alma Owens Shoopman, Meredith Owens, Clifton Owens, and Thelma Owens Mason.
One of the more recent burials at the cemetery is Janis Mason Owens, the wife of Dilmon Owens’ son, Odis. She was a longtime member of the Corinth Baptist Church, and worked as secretary at Scott High School in the 1990s after a lengthy tenure as a substitute teacher in the county school system.
Other notes
On Feb. 3, 2022, Carlus Shoopman Jr. died at the age of 73, and was buried at Riverview. His grave is located in a line of his family members, and his stone reads: “The last family member.”
He was the son of Carlus Shoopman and Alma Owens Shoopman, a great-nephew of Enmon and Kizzie Owens. He is buried next to his mother and two sisters, Mary Lou Shoopman and Donna Lee Shoopman, who died at the ages of 23 and 36. All four have matching headstones.
The Shoopman family was once a prominent family in the Smokey Creek area. They are descended from John Shoopman, who moved from Virginia to Smokey Creek in the early 1800s. Several of the family members are buried at a family cemetery further up the creek. There is also another line of Shoopman graves at Riverview Cemetery. They are the children of Hurstle Shoopman and Ivalee Carroll Shoopman. Their mother is also buried at the cemetery. Hurstle Shoopman was a brother of Carlus Shoopman Sr.
Perhaps the most unique headstone at the cemetery is that of 14-year-old Comodore Perry Adkins, who died on Dec. 11, 1916, less than one month shy of his 15th birthday.
Comodore’s headstone is a tree trunk, with a lamb at its base and a scroll containing his information. For its time — when many graves in rural areas were still being marked with simple field stones — the headstone would have been considered especially elaborate.
Comodore was the son of Levi and Sarah Adkins. His parents and grandfather are also buried at Riverview.
Cemetery inventory
RIVERVIEW CEMETERY (SMOKEY JUNCTION)
GPS Coordinates: 36.28631, -84.36139
First burial: 1834*
Last burial: 2024
Burials since Robert Bailey’s 1994 cemetery census? Yes.
Comodore P. Adkins, 1902-1916
Lacy L. Adkins Jr., 1872-1925
Lacy L. Adkins Sr., 1838-1900
Mertie Jeffers Adkins, 1919-2015
Sarah “Sallie” Hale Adkins, 1875-1928
Simon T. Adkins, 1910-1913
Willie M. Adkins, 1893-1894
Adam Anderson, 1865-1939
Arlie Anderson, 1941-2011
Belle Lowe Anderson, 1898-1983
Carl Q. Anderson, 1925-1925
Charles M. Anderson, 1913-1992
Christine Anderson, 1916-1918
Christine Anderson, 1926-2003
Dorthea Anderson, 1925-1925
Earley Anderson, 1889-1896
Eliza Kennedy Anderson, 1870-1950
Betty Anderson, 1936-2013
Ella Anderson, 1908-1920
Elmer Anderson, 1920-1965
Fred Anderson, 1915-1975
George B. Anderson, 1852-1925
George B. Anderson, 1824-1908
Herbert R. Anderson, 1945-2004
Herstal Anderson, 1938-N/A
James L. Anderson, 1933-1934
Janice B. Anderson, 1934-1934
John Thomas Anderson, 1863-1935
Lassa Lowe Anderson, 1881-1950
Lonzo Anderson, 1902-1985
Mamie Smith Anderson, 1918-2003
Marlon S. Anderson, 1959-2006
Mart Anderson, 1899-1973
Mertie Anderson, 1919-N/A
Millard T. Anderson, 1949-1969
Myra Newport Anderson, 1892-1930
Nancy Tackett Anderson, 1823-1896
Nancy E. Anderson, 1891-1891
Partela Harness Anderson, 1850-1923
Phala L. Anderson, 1922-1923
Phillip H. Anderson, 1875-1967
Phillip L. Anderson, 1826-1898
Rachel Anderson, 1923-1950
Rachel Lowe Anderson, 1886-1954
Robert C. Anderson Sr., 1917-1989
Robert L. Anderson, 1918-1984
Ronald L. Anderson Sr., 1948-2003
Sallie Anderson, 1917-1939
Sally Adkins Anderson, 1866-1901
Sam Anderson, 1866-1901
Simon Anderson, 1887-1926
Vina Byrge Anderson, 1897-1985
Walter Anderson, 1911-1912
Wiley Anderson, 1900-1981
William Anderson, 1869-1942
Wolford Anderson, 1911-1968
“Little Angel”, N/A-1911
Etta McGhee Blankenship, 1891-1973
John W. Blankenship, 1881-1948
Segal Blankenship, 1927-1954
Ulysses G. Blankenship, 1930-1997
Genell Potter Boshears, 1970-2025
Alain Burress, 1941-1942
Alfred Burress, 1904-1908
China Massengale Burress, 1876-1941
Ed Burress, 1916-1973
Edith Burress, 1916-1941
Frona Duncan Burress, 1861-1945
Jimmy Burress, 1951-2012
Luther R. Burress, 1904-1960
Margaret Ward Burress, 1945-2017
Moses “Mode” Burress, 1874-1954
Richard T. “Char” Burress, 1870-1942
Serrelda Daugherty Burress, 1878-1917
Thomas N. Burress, 1893-1916
Tillie Jeffers Burress, 1911-1990
Virgil Burress, 1907-1998
Wadena B. Burress, 1917-2013
Waymon Burress, 1924-1997
Ella Sharp Buskell, 1888-1911
James H. Byrd, 1886-1977
Mary E. Cross Byrd, 1961-N/A
Melinda Burress Byrd, 1888-1942
Phil Byrd, , 1937-1997
Wm. Alfred Byrd, 1913-1936
Wm. “Berry” Byrd, 1888-1965
Hugh Carroll, 1946-2011
Lonzo Carroll, 1918-1979
Bobby G. Cook, 1932-1958
Carolyn S. Cook, 1959-1960
Ezra Cook, 1901-1952
Minnie Lowe Cook, 1904-1982
Posey Cook, 1908-1934
Rosie Massengale Cook, 1937-2008
Laura Lowe Cooper, 1939-2001
Oaklynn Cooper, 2024-2025
Absalom “Ab” Cross, 1849-1915
Absalom A. Cross, 1799-1887*
Andrew Johnson Cross, 1885-1944
Andrew “Andy” Cross, 1865-1945
Arlevia Cross, 1924-1935
Bessie Jeffers Cross, 1905-1958
Bratcher Cross, 1928-1931
Celia Massengale Cross, 1905-2003
Cornelius Cross, 1929-2003
D. Clydeth Cross, 1927-1928
Elden E. Cross, 1927-2011
Elizabeth Cross, 1900-1989
Emma Lowe Cross, 1879-1961
Frank Cross, 1883-1974
Hugh Cross, 1877-1925
Infant Cross, N/A-N/A
Infant Cross, N/A-N/A
Infant Cross, N/A-N/A
Infant Cross, N/A-N/A
Jacob “Jake” Cross, 1847-1929
Joseph “Joe” Cross, 1847-1943
Loranza “L.D.” Cross, 1896-1974
Mary Triplett Cross, 1808-1872*
Morlena Cross, 1854-1929
Nicodemus Cross, 1933-1934
Peggy Massengale Cross, 1830-1886
Rachel York Cross, 1900-1980
Riley Roscoe Cross Sr., 1893-1971
Ruth Ward Cross, 1946-2012
Sallie Massengale Cross, 1860-1934
Samantha Adkins Cross, 1862-1907
Sampson “Sam” Cross, 1905-1945
Sarahan Cross, N/A-1870
Serelda Massengale Cross, 1868-1943
Simon Cross, 1906-1979
Thomas Cross, 1901-1936
Telitha Adkins Cross, 1854-1929
Vena Burress Cross, 1912-2006
William A. Cross, 1826-1919
Wolford H. Cross, 1932-1964
Erman Daugherty, 1922-1943
Karen S. Davenport, 1957-2011
E.S. Deweese, 1877-1919
Fuston Duncan, 1957-1957
May Duncan, 1891-1902
William E. Duncan, 1945-1945
Helen Burress Ford, 1939-2006
Frankie C. Gibson, 1951-1951
Fred Gibson, 1921-1984
Georgia Gibson, 1929-1985
Kenneth Gibson, 1928-1932
Mary Anderson Gibson, 1861-1950
Mary E. Gibson, 1911-1929
Susie Muse Gibson, 1913-1938
Taylor D. Gibson, 2000-2009
Wiley Gibson, 1935-1935
Wiley Gibson, 1851-1951
Sallie Anderson Goad, 1917-1939
Edna Lowe Griffith, 1920-2009
J.C. Griffith, 1914-1979
Billie J. Hallmon, 1935-1958
Ann Anderson Hamby, 1961-2024
Arvel L. Hammock Sr., 1944-2011
Adam Harness, 1882-1927
David Harness, N/A-N/A
Dolvia Harness, N/A-N/A
Dorothy Harness, 1923-1923
Elizabeth Hester Harness, 1952-1997
Erman Harness Sr., 1952-1999
George Harness, 1906-1957
Homer Harness, N/A-N/A
Howard Harness, 1916-1936
Joseph B. Harness, 1893-1966
Mary Lowe Harness, 1915-1996
Matilda Keathley Harness, 1863-1925
Noah Harness, 1946-1991
Norma J. Hicks Harness, 1956-2000
Sylvania M. Harness, 1902-1990
Wavey B. Harness, 1945-1962
William S. Harness, 1890-1912
Shirley Hatmaker, 1929-1930
Amanda R. Hembree, 1979-2011
Clara Lowe Hembree, 1937-2022
Roger Hembree, 1951-2023
William F. Hembree, 1931-2020
Eddie L. Hicks, 1950-1996
Melda Anderson Hicks, 1953-2016
Baby Hutson, 1947-1947
Bobby G. Hutson, 1947-1948
Danny E. Hutson, 1955-2012
Velma Sexton Hutson, 1932-2013
Victor E. Hutson, 1927-1997
Alvin C. Jeffers, 1883-1938
Earl Jeffers, 1911-1944
Harris Jeffers, 1908-1962
Surinda Litton Jeffers, 1883-1969
W.K. (Jeffers?), N/A-1883
M.K., , N/A-1851
B. Harrison Keathley, 1888-1951
Ettie J. Keathley, 1898-N/A
Jane Massengale Keathley, 1844-1931
John Keathley, 1869-1947
Jordan Keathley, 1856-1899
Patsy Phillips Keathley, 1878-N/A
Sherman Keathley, 1874-1929
Thurston Keathley, 1904-1922
William R. Keathley, 1832-1902
Larry T. Keathly, 1951-1952
Patsy Lowe Keathly, 1878-1941
Cora Anderson Kemp, 1918-2002
Perry E. Kemp, 1948-2011
Velmer L. Kemp, 1901-1979
Lanie Lowe Kennedy, 1899-1967
Levi Kennedy, 1895-1979
Wilma Ward Kennedy, 1936-2018
Daniel Kirby, 1947-2019
Ewell Low, 1922-1984
Marriah Burress Low, 1897-1929
S.L., , N/A-1870
Silvie J. Low, 1927-1931
Annie Goad Lowe, 1893-1958
Archie D. Lowe, 1918-1945
Bessie Cook Lowe, 1904-1982
Effie Lowe, 1942-1942
Greely Lowe, 1893-1912
Howard “Halk” Lowe, 1910-1978
Hubert Lowe, 1919-1977
Irene Kennedy Lowe, 1923-1937
Jerry W. Lowe, 1944-1961
John H. Lowe, 1893-1941
Julia Love Lowe, 1924-1985
Leonard L. Lowe, 1926-1988
Lora Lowe, 1910-1958
Lucrecia Burress Lowe, 1898-1988
Maudie Cross Lowe, 1927-2016
Nancy Byrd Lowe, 1923-2011
Nevada Cross Lowe, 1922-1981
Patricia Lowe, 1948-2010
Randy A. Lowe, 1964-2017
Roland T. Lowe, 1929-2003
Sarah Carroll Lowe, 1889-1932
Starling Lowe Sr., 1870-1942
Vena Lowe, 1924-1987
Violet Byrd Lowe, 1920-2007
Virgil C. Lowe, 1899-1990
Vivian Lowe, 1938-1938
Cleata Loyd, 1945-1945
Jimmie Loyd, 1942-1942
Rose Anderson Marlow, 1944-1991
Ella Anderson Mason, 1947-2020
Thelma Owens Mason, 1938-2001
Andrew Massengale, 1897-1942
Ardella Massengale, 1936-1936
Birdie Jeffers Massengale, 1910-1952
Clifton Massengale, 1935-1935
Clipton Massengale, 1935-1945
Daisy Massengale, 1910-1939
Dallas K. Massengale, 1907-2002
Donald R. Massengale, 1937-1996
Eliga Massengale, 1912-1973
Elsie Massengale, 1931-1932
Harvey Massengale, 1905-1944
Hazel Massengale, 1940-2024
Infant Massengale, 1927-1927
Ivory Massengale, 1898-1922
Jessie Massengale, 1877-1949
John T. Massengale, 1870-1946
Laford Massengale, 1907-1999
Marie Massengale, 1922-1922
Martha Foster Massengale, 1864-1910
Mossey Massengale, 1937-1941
Nancy A. Massengale, 1878-1972
Patrick T. Massengale, 1970-2013
Peggy Miller Massengale, 1830-1900
Rosetta Massengale, 1936-1936
Sallie S. Massengale, 1827-1916
Sally Lowe Massengale, 1873-1964
Sarah Carroll Massengale, 1861-1926
Thelma Massengale, 1940-1941,
Vivian Griffith Massengale, 1938-2014
Matthew Massengale, 1824-N/A
Printice McCloud, 1926-1943
Wanda Ward McKamey, 1934-2015
Louisa Anderson Newport, 1886-1915
Raymond Newport, 1915-1915
Uegene Newport, 1912-1912
Canzada Cross Owens, 1924-2021
Clifton J. Owens, 1930-1995
Debra A. Owens, 1955-1955
Dilmon Owens Sr., 1901-1988
Enmon Owens, 1898-1990
Florence Hembree Ownes, 1934-2004
Hobert Owens, 1922-1944
Janis Mason Owens, 1941-2021
Kizzie Lowe Owens, 1897-1963
Meredith H. Owens, 1928-1969
Odis Owens, 1940-2024
Talitha Lowe Owens, 1906-1985
B.K.P., , N/A-1838
J.P. (John Patterson?), N/A-1838
S.P. (Sallie Patterson?), N/A-1844
Gabriel Patterson, 1814-1838
Herman C. Pergram, 1929-1929
Claude A. Phillips, 1966-1966
Claudine Carroll Phillips, 1942-1977
Doyle T. Phillips, 1921-1921
Glenn Phillips, 1934-1987
Hulda Anderson Phillips, 1905-1979
Infant Phillips, N/A-N/A
Maggie Adkins Phillips, 1906-1939
Nancy Tucker Phillips, 1945-2015
Pearl Jeffers Phillips, 1904-N/A
Sylvester Phillips, 1896-1969
Wilhelmina Phillips, 1930-1933
Cleta Mason Potter, 1949-2016
Emilee Potter, 1978-2012
Samuel F. Potter, 1940-2007Genny Lowe Queener, 1943-2023
Roy “Bud” Queener, 1942-2022
Gracie Jeffers Reynolds, 1908-1989
James H. Reynolds, 1893-1894
Marlena Cross Seagraves, 1904-1993
Charles V. Sharp, 1924-1944
Elizabeth Dagley Sharp, 1852-1928
Elva Burress Sharp, 1902-1929
George W. Sharp, 1852-1913
Herman E. Sharp, 1923-1944
Alma Owens Shoopman, 1926-2016
Carlus Shoopman Jr., 1948-2022
Donna Lee Shoopman, 1947-1984
Elsie Shoopman, 1947-1947
Ivalee Carroll Shoopman, 1927-2010
Jhonnie L. Shoopman, 1962-2013
Louise Shoopman, 1950-2009
Mary L. Shoopman, 1956-1980
Pyre “Doc” Shoopman, 1953-1982
Vickie S. Shoopman, 1954-1975
Celia Roach Slagle, 1852-1913
Henry Slagle, 1848-N/A
Robert “Bobbie” Sluder, 1945-2009
Michael G. Stone, 1969-2022
Elizabeth Sybert, 1824-N/A
Luverna Tackett, 1901-1903
Richard J. Turpin, 1909-1986
S.M.W., , N/A-N/A
K.W., , N/A-1883
Doris L. Walker, 1930-1931
Charlie Ward, 1904-1977
Clifton “Snuffie” Ward, 1943-2012
Henry C. Ward, 1939-2010
Johney Ward, 1910-1932
Mary Mason Ward, 1911-1962
Nora Cross Ward, 1934-2004
R.L. Ward, 1926-1933
Roxie Burress Ward, 1900-1955
Thomas Ward, 1902-1931
Annie L. Watson, 1905-1908
Delanie Watson, 1901-1902
Elizabeth Watson, 1902-1902
Emmett Watson, 1920-1944
Ernest E. Watson, 1896-1896
John Watson, 1908-1929
Laura B. Watson, 1892-1893
Martha Cross Watson, 1869-1893
Martha Phillips Watson, 1880-1955
Roxie F. Watson, 1925-1931
Thomas “Tom” Watson, 1868-1939
Unknown Watson, N/A-1910
Florence Cross York, 1903-1931
Infant York, 1921-1921
William “Bill” York, 1895-1970
*There are many graves at Riverview Cemetery that are marked with field stones that are either uninscribed or illegible.
This story is a part of the Scott County Cemetery Project.