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DeLoach Family Cemetery
Johnson County, Tennessee
Johnson County, Tennessee, is in the northeastern most corner of the state. It is a place of rugged mountains, fast flowing streams and small valleys. The smallest of these valleys are etched out of the mountains, and are called hollows, or "hollers". Campbell Holler is a minute wrinkle on the southeast foot of Iron Mountain, and is located near Doeville. The opening into Campbell Holler is narrow, but as one moves deeper into it, the valley widens into rolling farmland that was cleared by the early settlers. Living in the holler were the Campbell, Church and DeLoach families.
Samuel Carter DeLoach was born in Carter County, Tennessee, the son of Nathan and Margaret Atkins DeLoach. He married his childhood sweetheart, Margaret Louisa Garrison, daughter of John and Eliza "Dicey" Loving Garrison. Louisa was described as hot tempered, with hair that was flame red up until the day that she died. In sharp contrast was her husband Samuel Carter DeLoach. He was a farmer, a carpenter, and a Baptist minister. He was named after Samuel Powhattan Carter, a Civil War hero from Carter County who is the only U.S. military officer to hold the ranks of Army General and Navy Admiral. Samuel and Louisa moved to Campbell Holler in about 1890. Their home and small farm was located in the mouth of the holler. Samuel was a minister in Sugar Grove Baptist Church in nearby Butler. This church and its graveyard were moved in 1947 when Butler was inundated by the Watauga Lake TVA project. Samuel was also a minister at the Pleasant Home Baptist Church near Laurel Bloomery. He was among a number of church members who built a new church when the first one was destroyed by a storm in 1893.
Samuel and Louisa's home was a small, four roomed house, in which they raised their six children. Their daughter Celia, 23 Jan 1877 to 15 Aug 1928, married Johnny Alvin Heaton, and they lived with them for several years with their children. Their youngest son, Joseph Alexander DeLoach, 6 Dec 1884 to 28 Feb 1961, left home in about 1905 and went to Oregon, where he worked on a cattle ranch near Dallas, Oregon. After several years there, he returned to Johnson County. At the age of 28, he met and married Dove Cleo Williams Arnold, 15 Aug 1894 to 2 Dec 1988, the daughter of David W. Arnold and Josephine Williams. They moved into the house with Samuel and Louisa, where their twelve children were born. Following the death of Samuel and Louisa, they inherited the small farm. Joseph and his family left Johnson County in 1933 and moved to Washington County, Tennessee. The property is now owned by the Stamper family.
Behind that small, four roomed house, there is a small hill which overlooks the entrance to Campbell Holler. This lovely site was chosen by Louisa to be the burial place for her husband Samuel, and she was later laid beside him.
DeLoach Family Cemetery, Campbell Hollow, Johnson County, Tennessee
Reverend Samuel Carter DeLoach, 1 April 1844 - 15 March 1920
Margaret Louisa Garrison, 9 April 1844 - 1 September 1922
Wife of Samuel Carter DeLoach
Infant DeLoach, 1913
Son of Joseph Alexander and Dovie Williams Arnold DeLoach
Bernis Kermit DeLoach, 19 September 1931 - December 1931
Son of Joseph Alexander and Dovie DeLoach
