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.