I have enjoyed the recent posts about the cemeteries in and around Bristol. I have ancestors from Sullivan County but also attended Virginia Intermont College 1981 to 86 and am familiar with the metal cover on Evan Shelby's grave, and the cemetery at St. Ann's. It is a real challenge for me to picture that area 150 or 200 years ago. I remember when I lived there I couldn't imagine what it would be like to see Beaver Creek run above ground instead of under down town. The cemetery I remember best was on the hill behind the old Sullins Academy on the Virginia side, it was unkept in the 1980's, and you could barely drive a car around it, yet there was evidence of recent burials. I have heard it called Citizens Cemetery. Can anyone elaborate on it for me? Thanks, Truman Adkins Fieldale, Henry County, Virginia VI Class of '86

At 08:08 PM 8/15/2000 EDT, [email protected] wrote: >Hey Cuz, > I thought we started to exchange info on the Ornduffs and I have Moores >in the tree too. I was born in 1953 so I did not know about the Filling >Station blowing up! My brother Allen Canter and cousin Pat (Gladys Mcglamory >) are more your age, when I talk to them again I will ask if they remember >that. I was at Lottie Street when I was little, and Short Street ran nearby I >think. You went up a hill that dead ended to the cemetery. I was back there 2 >summers ago and it is all grown up with weeds (Looks like a jungle). The 3 >old shacks our families lived in are gone except for a chimney now. I went to >Thomas Jefferson School. After my granny died we moved to Rice Terrace Apts. >When did you leave Bristol? Let me know if you want to try and exchange info. >I have an older cousin on line named Willie Kate Underwood that helps me keep >the tree straight and sends me info. Hope to keep in touch. In 1949 we moved from East State Street on Tennessee side to the Rice Terrace where I attended Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. In 1953 we moved back to Tennessee at 905 Kentucky Avenue. In 1959 I joined the U.S. Navy and retired in 1978 here in Charleston South Carolina. I worked at the Navy Shipyard until they decided to start closing it. Then I worked for the Army Corps of Engineers where I am currently. My dad Robert Edward South Jr. just turned 80 on the 1st of August. He lives on Broad Street in Bristol, TN. His mother was Ollie Virginia Moore born June 03, 1903 and died July 11, 1961. His father was Robert Edward South born December 24, 1897 and died January 1986. My grandmother Ollie's mother was the Ornduff line. My grandfather's mother was another Moore line separate from my grandmother. I have more names and dates if you want them. Fred

At 07:51 AM 8/15/2000 EDT, [email protected] wrote: >I have to confess this is my favorite because East Hill cemetery was my back >yard when I was a child growing up in Bristol. My uncle Arville Canter worked >there til his death, then my cousin, David Thomas who started working there >at age 12 just retired from being caretaker there after 30 some odd years. I >have wonderful memories of playing in East Hill and I hope someday to rest >there where I once played. I learned a lot of East Hill history from Bud >Phillips book that I did not know. I lived on East State Street 1946 to 1948 or maybe 1949 at house number 112. I was born 30 October 1941 in Dante, VA. I started first grade at Fairmount Elementary School. I remember the Robinette Filling Station at the bottom of the Hill. I remember when it blew up. I was one of the children they thought was there at the time of the explosion. Instead I was a couple houses up with my friend Shot Addison. I've always wondered whatever happened to him. I have Moore and Ornduff ancestors buried at East Hill. Fred South Goose Creek, SC

Hey Cuz, I thought we started to exchange info on the Ornduffs and I have Moores in the tree too. I was born in 1953 so I did not know about the Filling Station blowing up! My brother Allen Canter and cousin Pat (Gladys Mcglamory ) are more your age, when I talk to them again I will ask if they remember that. I was at Lottie Street when I was little, and Short Street ran nearby I think. You went up a hill that dead ended to the cemetery. I was back there 2 summers ago and it is all grown up with weeds (Looks like a jungle). The 3 old shacks our families lived in are gone except for a chimney now. I went to Thomas Jefferson School. After my granny died we moved to Rice Terrace Apts. When did you leave Bristol? Let me know if you want to try and exchange info. I have an older cousin on line named Willie Kate Underwood that helps me keep the tree straight and sends me info. Hope to keep in touch.

To the north East Hill crept down a hillside toward Williams Street, and a Potter's field was set aside in this area. East Hill has had several move ins and move-outs. Stones that are marked before 1857 are the grave markers of people that were moved from other grave sites and reburied at East Hill. The town's first Dr. a Dr. B. F. Zimmerman, and the Dr.'s son, Cyrus King, 2 of Cyrus wives and 1 child was moved to East Hill. Also Sarah Ann Anderson, the daughter of Joseph and Melinda King died in Blountville on May 6,1853 and 25 years later her body was moved to the Anderson lot at East Hill. James O. Wood, the father of 5 prominent Wood brothers were buried at Esillvile ( now Gate City) in 1874 then moved to City Cemetery in 1878. Capt. George Davidson died in March of 1881. He was said to have fired the 1st Confederate gun at the 1st Battle of Manassas and was buried at Esillvile, but a few days after he was buried there his brother had him moved to East Hill. On Jan. 21,1873 Bristol newspaper said the remains of Mr. John T. Wilbar had been reinterred in the town cemetery. The Ed Faidley family took in a run away boy about 15 yrs. old from Ashe County, N.C. in 1896. The boy would give no information about who he was and he was sick when he got to Bristol. One week after he arrived he died. He was buried in the Hines family lot in East Hill. Mrs. Faidley was a Hines and had the boy buried there because she could not bear to see such a young person buried in a Potters field. About a week later the boy's folks showed up looking for him. When they learned he had died they had him exhumed, loaded him into their wagon and hauled him back to the family graveyard in N.C. Another story Mr. Phillips tells is about an event in 1877 with a family named Yelton. The family's little girl died a few months before the family was to move to Missouri and she was buried at East Hill. When it come time for the family to go to Missouri the mother could not bear to leave her daughter behind. The body was exhumed, sealed in a metal casket by H. A. Bickley, loaded into a wagon and taken along.

I have to confess this is my favorite because East Hill cemetery was my back yard when I was a child growing up in Bristol. My uncle Arville Canter worked there til his death, then my cousin, David Thomas who started working there at age 12 just retired from being caretaker there after 30 some odd years. I have wonderful memories of playing in East Hill and I hope someday to rest there where I once played. I learned a lot of East Hill history from Bud Phillips book that I did not know. East Hill use to be called Round Hill ( the older part). Mr. Phillips says the Bristol men use to gather there to fight gamecocks, so by popular usage it was known as Rooster Hill. After burials began again that name was not dignified enough for a cemetery, so it was Round Hill til well after the war. Samuel E. Goodson had a tenant farmer living on his farm by the name of Gaines. The Gaines family planned on moving to Texas when their 5 yr. old daughter, Nellie died in 1857. Col. Goodson suggested she be buried at a site he was planning to set aside for a burying ground for Goodson ( now Bristol). The wagon driver cut a poplar stick to use as a horse prodder. When the burial was complete he stuck the stick in the ground to mark her grave. the stick sprouted and over time become a giant tree that stood until a windstorm took it down in Oct. of 1977. On April 30,1860 Col. Goodson sold a tract of land that covered most the west side of Round Hill. In the deed he reserved a 2 acre tract for a cemetery, however for some reason he never deeded it to the town as he intended. May 22,1868 L. F. Johnson paid Col. Goodson one hundred dollars and recieved the cemetery deed. notarized by Valentine Keebler. The next day Johnson deeded the 2 acre tract in trust to the Ladies Memorial Association of Bristol. The Memorial Associaction was made up of the following women: Melinda King Anderson wife of Bristol's founder, J. R. Anderson Jane A. Wilbar Carrie E. Stover Marietta Moore Bettie M. Robinson Mary B. Coleman, wife of Bristol's first druggist Dr. R. M. Coleman Anne E. Johnston Margaret Rohr, wife of Phillip Rohr, early civic leader Elizabeth Moore Keziah Fowler, wife of I. C. Fowler, local newspaper editor Isabella Pepper Levicy Campbell Mary D. York, wife of local attorney, U. L. York Harriett E. Johnson, wife of L. F. Johnson who bought the tract. These women were to keep the cemetery enclosed and the soldier's graves in good condition. They had the privilege of selling 18 x 20 foot lots for burial purposes at $ 20.00 per lot and the money from the lot sales was to keep the cemetery in good repair.. Col. Goodson and many of these women now rest here along with Civil War soldiers. And the cemetery grows. More later from Bud Phillips book, Bristol, Tn./Va.,

This is the last cemetery that Bud Phillips mentions in his book, except for East Hill Cemetery that he devotes several interesting pages to, that I will send in a couple of mails, There are lots of names in the East Hill Article. He also covers monuments, and decoration day. Here is the mystery cemetery he mentions: Old Buchanan Cemetery contained the bodies of Rev. War soldiers and located within sight of downtown Bristol. He says Mrs. Wirt Carrington Johnson tells of this cemetery, and that her comments have given rise to much speculation among local Historians, Mr. Phillips writes that he will let the matter rest and perhaps in time the mystery will unravel.( I am kinda left hanging and curious about that). Remains of the oldest cemetery was unearthed in the early 1870's. while the foundation was being dug for Temperance Hall, which stood near s.w. corner of 5th and Shelby. Evidence of an old Indian burial ground was uncovered at that time, so Mr. Phillips writes that the young man resting under the giant oaks in 1784 was not alone after all.

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.

>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.

>From land records in Sullivan County, TN. are the following Davis land owners. page 24. Davis James.. Joseph Smith.. 50 A. Horse Creek.. 26 March 1794 (B3-118) John Chester.. 100 A. Horse Creek.. 25 March 1794 (B3-119) John (heirs of).. Edward Cox.. ..A. Hols. R. (Relinq.) 8 June 1818 (B8-168) Nathaniel... ST. N. Car. .. 200 A. Hols. R. 10 Nov. 1784.. (B2-429) Since my John Frazier lived on Horse Creek and his wife was a Davis, has anyone any clue as to which of these fellows may have been her father. There was also a Moses Davis in the area. Any Abigail Davis/ Davies family out there? Shirley

looking for information on the Keen family of Sullivan County. they are listed on page 48 of the Sulivan County land records. Keen.. Enoch... Wm. Basket.. 60 A. Clear Creek..14 Sept 1813.. (B10-136) Jonas.. Nicholas Howser.. 300 A. Ken. CR.. 15 Oct 1802 (B6-234) ...Charles Jones 40 A. 29 Aug. 1805 (B6-243) Matthias .. St. Tenn. .49 A. Horse Creek.. 13 Sept 1817 (B10-43 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Her is my question, Enoch , Jonas and Matthias Keen all bought their property from the person following their name? I am looking for the parents of Elizabeth Keen wife of Henry Frazier. has anyone information on these Keen gentleman? Thanks so much, Shirley

Oscar...............I tried to send an answer to your reply to me from my query here on this list and it was returned to me. Could you contact me again please................ [email protected] thanks..........Sharon

Sharon, Yes, I have found your Abigail Glover, too, but I'm not sure where she fits in. There were a lot of Glovers who married into the Watson line and I'm sure they were all related somehow, I'm just trying to figure out how. A sister to your Martha Ellen Crumley was Nancy Jane Crumley--who married Elbert Embre Watson, a brother to John Wesley Watson that I mentioned in my last post. My husband's uncle, Worley Glover, was married to Jeanette Carrier, her mother's name was Mary, would you know of any connection there? Joyce > From: "Sharon Hall" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:18:20 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Glover & Carrier > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:35:09 -0700 > > Joyce...........I am also researching Glover's in Sullivan CO, TN. I > have an Abigail Glover b. abt 1785 and m. to a Jonathan Carrier b. abt > 1775 . I know the Carrier line back a few generations but I have hit > a brick wall with my Abigail Glover. Would you or anyone else out > their know her parentage? She died about 1850 in Sullivan CO, TN. > Abigail and Jonathan had Nancy Elizabeth Carrier in 1802 and she > married John C. Crumley and they had Martha Ellen Crumley in 1834 and > she m. James Allen Berry ( my g > grandparents)....................thanks a bunch for any > help...............Sharon Hall [email protected] > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > >

Joyce...........I am also researching Glover's in Sullivan CO, TN. I have an Abigail Glover b. abt 1785 and m. to a Jonathan Carrier b. abt 1775 . I know the Carrier line back a few generations but I have hit a brick wall with my Abigail Glover. Would you or anyone else out their know her parentage? She died about 1850 in Sullivan CO, TN. Abigail and Jonathan had Nancy Elizabeth Carrier in 1802 and she married John C. Crumley and they had Martha Ellen Crumley in 1834 and she m. James Allen Berry ( my g grandparents)....................thanks a bunch for any help...............Sharon Hall [email protected]

Joyce, I live about four miles from the Church. I will stop by there sometime this week and see what I can find out for you. PJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Joyce Glover <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 3:24 PM Subject: Chinquapin Baptist Church > All this talk about cemeteries got me thinking I needed to post a query > about this church. Apparently the land for Chinquapin Baptist Church (in > Chinquapin Grove near Bluff City) was given by William and Kizziah Glover. > One of the pastors of the church, John Wesley Watson, was married to their > daughter, Mary Elizabeth Glover (1848-1912). I'm looking for information on > this Glover family and would also appreciate any Watson help as well. > Anybody out there who can help? > > Joyce Glover > > > ============================== > Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/ >

All this talk about cemeteries got me thinking I needed to post a query about this church. Apparently the land for Chinquapin Baptist Church (in Chinquapin Grove near Bluff City) was given by William and Kizziah Glover. One of the pastors of the church, John Wesley Watson, was married to their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Glover (1848-1912). I'm looking for information on this Glover family and would also appreciate any Watson help as well. Anybody out there who can help? Joyce Glover

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.

Sue, Watagua is the Washington Co., TN area as you probably know. My William served in War of 1812 and left a pension application which states he came from Germany. But he was listed from PA on Census. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Ambrose YANCEY Rev. sol? > Hi Barbara, I have missplaced my engle book on descendants of one Melchoir > ENGLE who may have has a desc. named William to fit your William. There were > some engle lines the author did not have time to follow up on; one was a > Michael Engle of east Tenn. (Anderson co. area) or Wash. Co.(?) do you have > the Anderson letter by a (Mr. boggs) that was posted to the Knox Co. Ky. > list? That is about all i have on the Anderson family and what i have filled > in with familysearch.org Have you chkd. familysearch.org ? > It is helpful a lot of the time but of course it is like all secondary > sources and is only as good as the person who sent in the info. I find it > very helpful. > Keep in touch with me. > My Engle family came thru Wautauga area and went into Knox Co. Ky. very early > (1805) ? or so and I do have a Wm. in that line. > Thanks, Sue > > > > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >

Hello, I just deleted the previous email that mentioned Gen. Evan Shelby. Could whoever sent it please send it to me? Thanks. JOY