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.,