King's Point Cemetery
(Old Sivley)
Surveyed June 20, 1941
by Charles W. Lusk
Submitted by Dennis C. Wilson
DWilson215@aol.com
King's Point Cemetery is located off Highway 153, south of the Chickamauga Dam
and north of Chickamauga Creek on property that is owned by the Tennessee Valley
Authority. Since it is located on government property, special permission is
required to visit the cemetery. King's Point Baptist Church was once located
near the cemetery. The church burned in the early 1900's and was never rebuilt.
The cemetery was closed in 1938 and has not been maintained since. It is so
overgrown that finding any recognizable tombstones is extremely difficult.
Charles W. Lusk conducted this survey on June 20, 1941. Even at that time, he
reported the neglect and overgrowth in the cemetery and was not certain that he
had found all the tombstones.
King's Point Cemetery is the final resting place of nine members of the
W. J Woodward family killed in a collision with a railroad train on February
24,1897. At the bottom of this survey is an account of that fatal train accident
given by Charles W. Lusk.
Photos
of King's Point Cemetery
on Jack Woodward's Website
Tragic Story of the Woodward Family