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