This is the last of what I have to share from Bud Phillips book, Bristol Tennesse,Virginia. There was much more in the book about town history and some fine old photos, but I only had about an hours visit in the library with this wonderful book. By the way I am not promoting the book and have no connections to Bud Phillips, just sharing what I read. I did find a couple of cemetery mentions in a pamphlet I purchased through the historical society and I have an index to High on A Windy Hill. I can do look ups from the index, but I think there are many people out there with the whole book that can do better service. I have sent away for Mary Kegley's book Lost Children of Wythe County and E-mailed her for permission to offer look ups from it when it arrives and she said that was fine and sent me a list of how to rules on doing it without breaking copywrite laws. I hope I follow and do those things correctly. I sure don't want to do that! Any way here is some info on monuments and some names, etc., for you. Gen. Evan Shelby was most likely the first in town to have a grave marker (the iron slab placed over his grave).It was made at the King Iron Works at Holly Bend plantation. Thomas W. Farley became a local agent for the Caddess Monument Company of Lynchburg,Va.and placed some of the earliest markers at East Hill. Mr. Phillips writes that he used to haul the heavier monuments in a 2 wheel cart, pulled by an ox named Black from the depot to the cemetery, and some of the small light ones carried on his shoulder. There was a Marble Shop in Abingdon during the 1850's that supplied stones too. A. T. M. Provence set up Bristol's 1st monument works around 1860 and Mr. Phillips states at the writting of his book it is still there on the corner of State and Second Street. Provence closed during the war, but re-opened in 1866. Mr. Phillips tells with humor this story: Business must have been slow or money scarce, for a year or two later he was advertising he would cheerfully accept farm produce as payment for grave markers. Mr Phillips writes; and I quote " A story handed down through the Parrott family tells of a marker bought from Provence and paid for with a calf and a pig." It may truly be said that he ate up the profits!" W. A. Ray had a marble works on a lot across Main from the First Baptist Church about the same time period for several decades. It was common practice in those days to print in tiny, discreet letters near the bottom of the stone the name of the stone maker. The earliest monuments were usually thin, and almost always white marble. They become heavier and taller and more elaborately carved through the 1870's and 1880's. The soaring obelisk style of monuments in that time period mark several prominent local citizens including J.R. Anderson, John Crowell, James P. Lewis, Isaac A. Nickels, W.S. Minor, andCyrus King. There are a few unique hollow bronze monuments in East Hill. These were expensive and had to be ordered from Baltimore and took time for delivery. These people listed has a hollow bronze monument: W. W. James, Ben L. Dulaney, and Hal H. Haynes. A decent marker would cost $12.50, small ones as little as $6.00. Long after the Civil War a fine stone could be bought for $25.00 and a $50.00 stone would designate the affluent of the town. Some families put iron fences around their burial plots. Many of these fences were made and erected by the Dixon and Smith Foundry, and others had pickett fences, but neither remains today.. Around 1880 the father of Nellie Gaines ( first letter, first person buried at east hill) returned to Bristol from Texas and hired a carpenter to erect a little house over his daughter's grave, and put a pickett fence around it. He hired G.B. Smith to photograph it so his wife (at that time an invalid) could see what had been done. It has not survived time and does not remain today. Thank you all for letting me do this, I enjoyed very much all the Thank you notes and stories you have sent to me. Everytime I try to give to you good people I get 10 times more than I ever give. You are remarkable people. God Bless you all.