1847- Murphy Chapel Cemetery

According to the Knox County GIS website, the Murphy Chapel Cemetery was established in 1847. The site has a PDF list of "Historic Sites of Knox County, TN," and this cemetery is on this list. However, the website FindAGrave.com has a page for this cemetery, with a list of 102 interments. The oldest one is for a Mattie Brown, who died in 1894. It's possible that the contributors for the page on FindAGrave.com simply hadn't finished the full list of known interments. It's also possible that, at this point, the oldest graves are unmarked or have illegible stones. I'd like to try and find out how Knox County arrived at the 1847 date. If I do, I'll post the answer here.

Location: 4671 Luttrell Road, Knoxville