Here are some other stories and mentions from Bud Phillips book, Bristol, Tn./Va. He tells the story of a black infant who was buried on the lot where Lee Street Baptist Church now stands.The grave was never marked and the parents left Bristol soon after he died. The grave has been lost. Within a few years a house was built there, then the church. I find this so very sad, but guess it happened often in old days. Mr. Phillips tells another story in this chapter of his book about a mother and her child during the Civil War that lived in a little house that stood on the southwest corner of 8th & Main ( State) Street. The husband was serving in the Confederate Army and in late winter or early spring the child died. The mother buried the child at the edge of the garden behind her home. The father died at Gettysburg and the mother returned to Wytheville to her family. With the passing years the grave faded out and become overgrown. The grave now lies under or behind the First Tennesse Bank. This cemetery that Mr. Phillips mentions, I would be most interested in if anyone knows more it is Whittaker Cemetery, ( I am a Whittaker decendant) Phillips says it is somewhere in the Fairmount section of Bristol, Tennessee. Development has no doubt spread over it and no signs remain. Would there be a record of graves moved I wonder? Mountain View Cemetery was largely developed after 1900 and Mr. Phillips states in the book its' history is beyond the scope of his book, but mentions that the extreme lower side a small family lot with a few burials made in the 1880's and 90's.The family name is Dunlap, and he states more than likely the lot was part of the Dunlap home farm.

When I worked at Cessna in Wichita, KS, there was a little graveyard right along one of the plant roads. It was a single grave surrounded by a 3 foot high wrought iron fence. The tombstone (which was still in pretty good shape) indicated that the occupant was the child of a settler named Wycoff who died ca 1870 (the date was there- I just can't remember it). I was told that Cessna was required by law to maintain the grave. But it may just have been corporate kindness. Too bad that more companies aren't so considerate. Phil [email protected] wrote: > > Here are some other stories and mentions from Bud Phillips book, Bristol, > Tn./Va. He tells the story of a black infant who was buried on the lot where > Lee Street Baptist Church now stands.The grave was never marked and the > parents left Bristol soon after he died. The grave has been lost. Within a > few years a house was built there, then the church. I find this so very sad, > but guess it happened often in old days. > Mr. Phillips tells another story in this chapter of his book about a > mother and her child during the Civil War that lived in a little house that > stood on the southwest corner of 8th & Main ( State) Street. The husband was > serving in the Confederate Army and in late winter or early spring the child > died. The mother buried the child at the edge of the garden behind her home. > The father died at Gettysburg and the mother returned to Wytheville to her > family. With the passing years the grave faded out and become overgrown. The > grave now lies under or behind the First Tennesse Bank.

From a book called Bristol, Tn./Va. by Bud Phillips. St. Anne's Catholic cemetery dates from 1833. It was considered to be too far out of town and reached by a rough, narrow, rocky road that led up from Flat Hollow. The earliest burials in this cemetery were members of the Flannery, Byrne, Harmeling, Burke, Long, Shea, Powers, and Burns families. I have no other info on these families, sorry to say. This is all I noted from Bud Phillips book about this cemetery, and believe this is all he mentions.

In Bud Phillips book he describes Rutherford Family Cemetery like this: " A few sunken graves with no markers, under a thick growth of briars, brush, and weeds." The site is located a few yards north east of the stop light where Georgia Ave. and Williams Street join East State Street. It is just to the south of the abandoned concrete water tank. The old Rutherford family owned much of the land in that area. There are a few graves just to the southwest of the Rutherford plot, 2 or 3 which are marked. Mr. Phillips states that no date has been established for the beginning of the cemetery, but was likely in use long before the Civil War. A member of the Rutherford family now long dead recalled as a youngster had plowed corn in the eastern half of what is now East Hill Cemetery. This is basically all Mr. Phillips writes about this cemetery.

It's always pleasing to see a familiar family name pop up on the list. "Susong" was a maternal ancestor and I was delighted to see the information concerning the Susong Cemetery. Do you know where the name Susong derived? Although it takes on the oriental sound, I believe it might be Scottish! New Subject: Here's a bit of information concerning a family reunion just held in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The Wm. Floyd Rowlett Family annual reunion was held at the Ramada Inn on August 12th. Since all of the aunts and uncles from the older generation have died, we are down to continuing the reunion with only cousins. It's becoming difficult to bring the crowd together with many of them being too young to appreciate the value of continuing the gatherings. I must give credit to a cousin in SC for coming up with the bright idea of playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" I created a group of family history questions with a few easy local history questions thrown in for good measure. They were all printed on pages of a large easel pad--easy for the audience to read (4 contestants, 8 questions each). Another cousin filled the shoes of "Regis Philbin" for our little game. The scene was set up, and the game was on its way. To hold the interest of the younger generation, short commercials were improvised, such as the "Mikey" cereal scene. Given advance notice, the children were very willing to play the commercial roles. They were terrific! There were many good prizes. Video cameras were rolling. Someone was heard saying, "This is the best family reunion I've ever attended." For those planning family reunions in the near future, you might want to give this idea a try. It's well worth the trouble and a good way to test your relatives' knowledge of their family history. Some questions can be quite humorous, which only adds to the enjoyment of the day. Give it a try! Pat

Remember, there are 2 Sharrett cemeteries in the Bristol area. The other is on Rich Valley Road in Washington County, VA. Jerry D Sharrett 1104 Buchelew Dr Kingsport, TN 37663 [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 6:17 PM Subject: Bristol Cemetery History/ Sharett cemetery > This is information I found in Bud Phillips book titled Bristol, Va./ Tnn. > It is in my own words and told second hand from what I read and made notes > on. If you need further info you should check out the book from a library if > possible. It may also be for sale, I will try to find that out for I think it > is one I would like to have because Bristol is where I was born and raised. > This is about Sharett Cemetery and Mr. Phillips story about how it started. > On a Sunday afternoon in late April of 1837, Nathan Worley and wife Susannah > took a walk around their farm to choose a place for a family grave yard. They > settled on a site located on a rounded hill above Beaver Creek Valley. > According to the story one week from that day the Worley's son, Nathan > Jr.took sick toward the end of that week, and died. Nathan was buried there > at the site they had picked the following Sunday. Cherry trees use to crown > the top of the hill they had picked and some old land deeds refer to it as > Cherry Hill Cemetery. Later it was called Worley Cemetery, A Sharett family > bought the adjoining property and the present name of Sharett cemetery was > taken. It was slow to expand, but is now a sizeable graveyard. > > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #7 Please email your congressman to oppose any internet taxes. > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ >

This is information I found in Bud Phillips book titled Bristol, Va./ Tnn. It is in my own words and told second hand from what I read and made notes on. If you need further info you should check out the book from a library if possible. It may also be for sale, I will try to find that out for I think it is one I would like to have because Bristol is where I was born and raised. This is about Sharett Cemetery and Mr. Phillips story about how it started. On a Sunday afternoon in late April of 1837, Nathan Worley and wife Susannah took a walk around their farm to choose a place for a family grave yard. They settled on a site located on a rounded hill above Beaver Creek Valley. According to the story one week from that day the Worley's son, Nathan Jr.took sick toward the end of that week, and died. Nathan was buried there at the site they had picked the following Sunday. Cherry trees use to crown the top of the hill they had picked and some old land deeds refer to it as Cherry Hill Cemetery. Later it was called Worley Cemetery, A Sharett family bought the adjoining property and the present name of Sharett cemetery was taken. It was slow to expand, but is now a sizeable graveyard.

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In Bud Phillips book, Bristol,Va./Tn. he tells the history of Susong Cemetery. Mr. Phillips writes that this cemetery was began on Christmas Day in 1818 with the burial of Margaret Baggs Susong, the 47 year old wife of Jacob Susong. Mr. Phillips says that the Bristol old timers tell of a strange day that she was buried. The sun would shine, then snow showers, then thunder and lightning! This was a bit unsettling to the more superstitious people. The Susong family arrived in the area in 1794, on the day Gen. Evan Shelby was buried. ( his 1st time I think LOL) They set up homestead on Baker's Creek. ( about where Eckerd's Drug Store now stands in Little Creek Shopping Mall). Jacob Susong had choosen a site on the ridge behind his home for a family cemetery. It has his wife and other family members buried there and is now a public cemetery.

These are notes I picked up from Bud Phillips book Bristol,Va. Tn. on a chapter in the book about the history of Bristol Cemeteries. The info is interesting and possibly helpful to some since cemeteries have had name changes during the years and bodies have been relocated to other cemeteries over time. Hope you find it useful or at least interesting. Flat Hollow Cemetery was started in the mid 1830's in a place known as Flat Hollow. It was a slave cemetery, and this is the story of how it started. The Rev. James King had an elderly slave who was too old to work in the fields but she still carried water from a big spring at the foot of the hill below the King mansion. ( Now where Boswell Insurance Agency is located). The old slave would stop and rest with her water pails under a big popular tree that was halfway between the spring and the house. One day she did not return with her water and when they went looking for her she was found sitting there, leaning back against the tree where she had passed away. A site up by the old stage road was choosen for her burial and was the beginning of Flat Hollow Cemetery. Slaves from the King family and the Susong families were buried there. After the Civil War the cemetery became the burying ground for the black population of the Va. side of Bristol. The Colored Cemetery Association was formed to have oversite of Flat Hollow Cemetery. In 1891 the trustees of this association was : J.W. Davis, David Jefferson, Robert Morrison, and Jesse Green. On June 10,1891 J.W. Owen a King decendant sold the land the cemetery was on to Bristol Land Company. The company could not legally build on the cemetery, so they offered 5 acres of land at the edge of Piedmont in exchange for the one and thirteen hundreth acre burial plot. The offer was accepted by the trustees and the bodies were moved from Flat Hollow to what is now known as Citizens Cemetery. I have a few relatives buried there at Citizens Cemetery so I assume now all these cemeteries have all races buried there. Does anyone know if now all races are buried together in what use to be only Slave Cemeteries or are there still grounds where only Slaves are buried and no others? I am curious.

Have you all heard that the Native Americans are now trying to RECLAIM what they say is their land in Illinois? What they really want is land and a permit to build a casino. Never an end to this who owns what.

In reply to Carol, I too had that problem with so much email. Have you considered the Digest form. I now get the digest form of all the maillists that I am on, and I think it is great. For instance, this particular email that I am responding from had 5 different email all in one email. You can unsubscribe from the L list and subscribe to the D list Using the address right below. I love the digest form. Barb [email protected] wrote: > > Subject: > > SW_VA-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 227 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Bristol Cemeteries/ Ordway Cemeter [[email protected]] > #2 New E-mail Address [[email protected]] > #3 Re: SW_VA-D Digest V00 #226 [[email protected]] > #4 Re: [email protected] < ["Carol Landergott" <[email protected]] > #5 Re: [email protected] < ["E. C. Rogers" <[email protected]>]

PULEEESSE - I thought this ended yesterday. Not fun opening up the mail in the evening with 63 messages & most of it STILL ON THIS TOPIC!! ---- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 12:15 PM Subject: Re: Melungeons > In a message dated 8/12/00 3:00:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << And I was told if Mr. Adams was a M-------- that he would not appear on > any tax or voting lists because M--------s were not allowed to vote or > own property. Again, I disagree. > >> > Hi Guys!! > > I did NOT say this. And yes, indeed, one should look on EVERY tax, census, > voting list available. It depends entirely on the area, the time period and > whether Mr. Adams or whoever had been listed as 'white' or mulatto or > whatever. > NancyS > > THE MELUNGEON HEALTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT NETWORK: > http://www.melungeonhealth.org > SPARKS Genealogy: > http://SparksGenealogy.net > > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #3 Support the fight against unrequested junk e-mail (SPAM). > Visit the webpage at: http://www.cauce.org/ > -sysop > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >

The DELETE key is easier and faster than a complaint for ANYTHING in which I am not interested. ................................ Carol Landergott wrote: > > PULEEESSE - I thought this ended yesterday. Not fun opening up the mail in > the evening with 63 messages & most of it STILL ON THIS TOPIC!! > > ---- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 12:15 PM > Subject: Re: Melungeons > > > In a message dated 8/12/00 3:00:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > << And I was told if Mr. Adams was a M-------- that he would not appear on > > any tax or voting lists because M--------s were not allowed to vote or > > own property. Again, I disagree. > > >> > > Hi Guys!! > > > > I did NOT say this. And yes, indeed, one should look on EVERY tax, census, > > voting list available. It depends entirely on the area, the time period > and > > whether Mr. Adams or whoever had been listed as 'white' or mulatto or > > whatever. > > NancyS > > > > THE MELUNGEON HEALTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT NETWORK: > > http://www.melungeonhealth.org > > SPARKS Genealogy: > > http://SparksGenealogy.net > > > > > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > > #3 Support the fight against unrequested junk e-mail (SPAM). > > Visit the webpage at: http://www.cauce.org/ > > -sysop > > > > > > ============================== > > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > > > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #1 When you have a new email address please UNSUBSCRIBE from the > old BEFORE you lose it; and SUBCRIBE from the NEW address as soon > as you get access to it. If you fail to do this please send the > old and new address to: [email protected] and the Mailing List name > -sysop > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com.

In a message dated 8/12/00 3:01:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: The Melungeon Homepage: http://www.melungeons.org formerly at clinch is down, due to a change of servers. It should be up in a few weeks. Re: Pat Spurlock Elders book which I have not read, but have spoken w/ her and heard her speak, I have to say that she follows Virginia DeMarce's logic and stops at the coastline. DeMarce is the only person I have ever heard who said she did not need to get her Melungeon ancestors beyond the coastline. As you might recognize I thoroughly disagree w/Spurlock/DeMarce's theories, but do applaud their genealogy as far as it has gone. NancyS THE MELUNGEON HEALTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT NETWORK: http://www.melungeonhealth.org SPARKS Genealogy: http://SparksGenealogy.net

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This information I learned from the book by Bud Phillips titled Bristol, Va. / Tenn. Ordway Cemetery, one of the oldest in the city limits of Bristol, Tenn. It began on Dec. 21, 1806 with the burial of Sarah Goodson King, wife of Col. James King Ordway was often referred to as the cemetery at Holly Bend, which was the name of the King plantation. Sometimes Ordway was called Orchard Hill Cemetery. When Col. King died in 1825 it became known as King Cemetery. Several years later the land was bought by the Trigg family and became known as Trigg Cemetery. The present name of Ordway came at the turn of the century when the Ordway Manufacturing Company built a plant on the former Holly Bend plantation. My Catherine Booher Canter married a decendant of the Goodson family Marshall Dallas Goodson. I am always interested in any info on this family, especially Marshall and Catherine and their children. If anyone has anything on them or anyone is working on Marshall and Catherine I would appreciate a note from you. I wish I could get a photo or story about them and know more of their children. Thanks, Connie.

Hi Guys!! Apparently the several <grins> that I put in my post on the HOW DARE they did not come through!! I was NOT moralizing, I was teasing!! That's why the <grins> were put in there in the first place. I surely understand that things were different in different time periods and I would have probably been on the pillory had I been in New England. <GREATBIGGRIN> Hope I made this clear with this post. The grin in my post indicated a wink of the eye ;-) and a hint of a tease. NancyS THE MELUNGEON HEALTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT NETWORK: http://www.melungeonhealth.org SPARKS Genealogy: http://SparksGenealogy.net

In a message dated 8/12/00 3:00:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << And I was told if Mr. Adams was a M-------- that he would not appear on any tax or voting lists because M--------s were not allowed to vote or own property. Again, I disagree. >> Hi Guys!! I did NOT say this. And yes, indeed, one should look on EVERY tax, census, voting list available. It depends entirely on the area, the time period and whether Mr. Adams or whoever had been listed as 'white' or mulatto or whatever. NancyS THE MELUNGEON HEALTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT NETWORK: http://www.melungeonhealth.org SPARKS Genealogy: http://SparksGenealogy.net

This information I read in a book by Bud Phillips called Bristol VA./Tn. I found the book in the public library if you would like to read more about it. It was a wonderful book with many stories and photos about the town. I hope the little info will help someone or be of interest to someone. Shelby Slave Cemetery is an old burial ground that no longer exist. It was referred to as Grove Cemetery. It lay outside the southern wall of the Fort, at the present corner of Rose and 7th St. Several slaves were buried there and it is said the bodies of 2 friendly Indians, and an Indian child. When the Rev. James King moved ( within sight of this cemetery) he buried 2 or 3 slaves there including old Nancy who was the King household cook for several decades. In 1871 John G. King inherited the land including the cemetery . He laid the area in lots and streets and sold them in an auction. Col. Snapp from Blountville bought the plot where the slave cemetery was. A few days after the sale the Bristol newspaper reported the bodies were being taken out of the cemetery.It is thought the bodies were moved to what is known as the Tennessee Colored Cemetery just off Weaver Pike in Bristol, Tennessee.