Fay: Elijah Cheek ran an inn/tavern near White House, Tn. I'm sure there are some on line who know exactly where it was. I was told several years ago that the stones that formed the enterance steps to the inn were still in place. Anyway, when men were traveling to Nashville and points south do do business, Cheek was a very careful and considerate host hoping to have their business on their way back home. However his guest had a strange was of disappearing and the last place that people could remember seeing them was at the Cheek tavern/inn. The story is that there was a deep sink hole on his property and that after robbing the travelers, Cheek would murder them and throw their bodies down the sink hole. The person who told me about the steps also said that his grand daddy had a shoe box full of teeth, little bones and coins that has washed into the creek from the sinkhole (that is supposed to be there still) I have known this person for many years and frankly do not put much store in his stories, but be that as it may, Elijah Cheek was supposed to be half black, one quarter white and one quarter Cherokee, and he had a very savory reputation. You should be able to find about him in any one of several books on Sumner/Robertson County history.Since I don't know exactly where the tavern was and since White House sits in both counties You can probable find stories about it in both counties. Can anyone else add to this story? I would love to here more about it myself. Please correct any errors I have made. Mecca