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"My grandfather, Samuel Mauk, married Sarah Broyles. They had four boys and four girls. He built
and owned what was then called a cold blast furnace, where iron was made. He also owned a
sawmill in the forties (ie. 1840's). When both mills were operated, there was quite a little village called
Mauktown, which was the voting place in Mauk's District No. 1. At that time all districts in
Washington County were named, not numbered."

Reminiscences of an Old Timer
 by Capt. Ross Smith        

Located just off the Bill Mauk Road in the first district of Washington County. The cemetery is about 1200 feet off 318 Bill Mauk Road on property now owned by Grace J. Mauk and Chester Broyles. There is a fence thorough the middle of the cemetery. Wm. J. Mauk, born in 1910, now deceased, told stories about the cemetery. He said when he was a boy, many people in this settlement, which has been known as Mauktown, were buried there. However his immediate family is buried at the Liberty Cemetery about three or four miles away.

 
From the sunken places on the site, there could possibly have been thirty or forty graves. There are several large limestone rocks scattered on the ground, but no inscriptions were found. The entire area was thickly covered by what is referred to as "grave vine." It is a ground cover that stays green all year.
 
In addition to the names listed below, there could be some Broyles settlers, ancestors of Chester Broyles, buried there.
 
MAUK, Abraham, son of Samuel and Polly Broyles Mauk.
MAUK, James, son of Samuel and Mary Broyles Mauk.
MAUK, Malinda Templin, wife of James Mauk.
MAUK, Nancy J. Broyles, wife of Samuel A. Mauk.
MAUK, Samuel, son of John and Elizabeth Heiser Mauk. Soldier in the War of 1812.
MAUK, Samuel M. born July 28, 1848, son of James and Malinda Templin Mauk.
 
SEATON, Rebecca Mauk, daughter of James and Malinda Templin Mauk. Wife of Jacob Marion Seaton.

 

NOTE: From The Descendants of Peter Mauk, 1708-1980 by William Richard Wolph, 1400 South Joyce Street, Arlington, VA 22202. This book contains information about ancestors and descendants of the family listed above.
 
p. III A-17 -- Samuel Mauk, born in 1790, married in 1811, Mary (Polly) Broyles, born in 1795, in Greene Co., Tenn., a daughter of James B. and Ellender Broyles. Samuel built the first cold blast furnace on the Nolachuckey River in Washington Co., Tenn. A town grew up in that vicinity and was called Mauktown. In 1901 the town was washed away in a flood. Samuel died May 7, 1876, and Mary died in 1865. They had eleven children.
 
p. III A-21 -- James M. Mauk, born February 5, 1816, married in Washington Co., Tenn. September 21, 1843, Malinda Templin, born April 18, 1825, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Brown Templin. They had eleven children.
 
p. III A-21 -- Rebecca Jane Mauk, born September 3, 1844, married in Washington Co., Tenn. November 8, 1860, Jacob Marion Seaton, born August 26, 1832, son of David and Alice Green Seaton. Rebecca died January 29, 1884, and Jacob died May 7, 1812. They had eleven children.
 
p. III A-25 -- Samuel M. Mauk, born July 28, 1848, married January 4, 1872, Nancy J. Broyles, born May 22, 1852. Samuel died May 28, 1929, and Nancy died April 1, 1930. They had three children.
 
p. III A-27 -- Abraham Mauk, born August 25, 1823, died unmarried in 1847.
 
A picture of Samuel M. Mauk & Nancy Jane Broyles Mauk is on p. 259 of History of Washington County Tennessee, 1988 compiled by The Watauga Association of Genealogists - Upper East Tennessee, P.O. Box 117, Johnson City, TN 37605-0117.
 
Contributed by Grace J. Mauk, November 1998.

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