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    1. Re: Reynolds/Nunley Cemetery - Moccasin Gap
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GBC.2ACE/1436.3 Message Board Post: I can't help you with the exact location of the cemetary but I would recommend you check "High on a Windy Hill" which is a publication of the Washington County Historical Society. I can give you some information about the geography you are talking about. Clinch Mountain is a ridge that runs from Northeast to Southwest for about 40 or 50 miles through Southwest Virginia. The top of the ridge forms the county line between Washington and Russell Counties. There is a low point on the ridge about 6 miles Northwest of Abingdon which became known as Little Moccasin Gap after Little Moccasin Creek that flows down the Southeastern slope of Clinch. U.S. 19 runs through Little Moccasin Gap. A number of families settled in the gap after about 1800. These included the Nunelys, the Phelps, the Counts and my family, the Lillys. Some lived on the lower part of the Mountain near where 689 heads north from U.S. 19. Others lived near the top of the Gap. There is a Church near the top of the Gap called the Chestnut Grove Baptist Church which is about a mile off of U.S. 19 on 690. A good many Nunleys attended church there including members of the famous Chesnut Grove Gospel Quartet. If you continue North on 690 you will climb a very steep hill and then drop down into a depression on the top of Clinch Mountain. That is known as "Hidden Valley" and I don't think many people live up there now or in the past. I would look for your Cemetary off 690 or 689.

    09/25/2005 03:10:43