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.