EDWARD SULLIVAN:
Richard Green(e), the oldest of the five (children of Jeremiah who moved to Watauga), seems to have settled near Blowing Rock, NC. He was accompanied by his father-in-law, an old man named Sullivan. The old man carried a head stone with him, saying that he was going to start a graveyard in the new country. He died in 1794. There were no sawmills, and so no lumber for a coffin. His neighbors took their axes, went to the wood and hewed a coffin out of a popular tree. It was winter and the tree was found frozen hard. This is supposed to have been the first white man buried in Watauga County. the grave is still seen near Blowing Rock, less than a mile from the Green Park Hotel. The stone is of a slaty formation, quite similar to those commonly seen around Jersey Church and different from those found around the grave. The inscription reads from John Preston Arthur's book,(F 27 1794). This could be read as, Feburary, 27 1794?
Richard Green(e), the oldest of the five (children of Jeremiah who moved to Watauga), seems to have settled near Blowing Rock, NC. He was accompanied by his father-in-law, an old man named Sullivan. The old man carried a head stone with him, saying that he was going to start a graveyard in the new country. He died in 1794. There were no sawmills, and so no lumber for a coffin. His neighbors took their axes, went to the wood and hewed a coffin out of a popular tree. It was winter and the tree was found frozen hard. This is supposed to have been the first white man buried in Watauga County. the grave is still seen near Blowing Rock, less than a mile from the Green Park Hotel. The stone is of a slaty formation, quite similar to those commonly seen around Jersey Church and different from those found around the grave. The inscription reads from John Preston Arthur's book,(F 27 1794). This could be read as, Feburary, 27 1794?
EDWARD SULLIVAN:
Richard Green(e), the oldest of the five (children of Jeremiah who moved to Watauga), seems to have settled near Blowing Rock, NC. He was accompanied by his father-in-law, an old man named Sullivan. The old man carried a head stone with him, saying that he was going to start a graveyard in the new country. He died in 1794. There were no sawmills, and so no lumber for a coffin. His neighbors took their axes, went to the wood and hewed a coffin out of a popular tree. It was winter and the tree was found frozen hard. This is supposed to have been the first white man buried in Watauga County. the grave is still seen near Blowing Rock, less than a mile from the Green Park Hotel. The stone is of a slaty formation, quite similar to those commonly seen around Jersey Church and different from those found around the grave. The inscription reads from John Preston Arthur's book,(F 27 1794). This could be read as, Feburary, 27 1794?
Richard Green(e), the oldest of the five (children of Jeremiah who moved to Watauga), seems to have settled near Blowing Rock, NC. He was accompanied by his father-in-law, an old man named Sullivan. The old man carried a head stone with him, saying that he was going to start a graveyard in the new country. He died in 1794. There were no sawmills, and so no lumber for a coffin. His neighbors took their axes, went to the wood and hewed a coffin out of a popular tree. It was winter and the tree was found frozen hard. This is supposed to have been the first white man buried in Watauga County. the grave is still seen near Blowing Rock, less than a mile from the Green Park Hotel. The stone is of a slaty formation, quite similar to those commonly seen around Jersey Church and different from those found around the grave. The inscription reads from John Preston Arthur's book,(F 27 1794). This could be read as, Feburary, 27 1794?
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