Revolutionary War Veteran.
The Following is an excerpt from "Love's Young Dream: The Letters of Dr. Edward Noel Franklin to Miss Nannie Hillman, 1871" by Terry L. Martin, published by Silver Goblet Press, 2018.
"Restored in 2016 by the General Jethro Sumner Chapter of the DAR, the grave of James Franklin (1755-1828) resides in shadow. Patriarch of the Franklin family, James arrived in Middle Tennessee in 1779 after serving in Lord Dunmore's War and the Revolution. One of the Immortal Seventy, he defended Mansker's Station and other frontier sites from Indian attacks. With his wife Mary, from the eminent Lauderdale family of Virginia, he sired ten children in addition to one Franklin-surnamed son from a woman not his wife. Very close to the gravesite, their home "Pilot Knob" was heavily damaged in its long history by two tornado hits, and though portions of it are original, otherwise with newer construction it resembles little the house of James and Mary. It is now referred to as "Golden Era Plantation," and until recently was the home of William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys."
Revolutionary War Veteran.
The Following is an excerpt from "Love's Young Dream: The Letters of Dr. Edward Noel Franklin to Miss Nannie Hillman, 1871" by Terry L. Martin, published by Silver Goblet Press, 2018.
"Restored in 2016 by the General Jethro Sumner Chapter of the DAR, the grave of James Franklin (1755-1828) resides in shadow. Patriarch of the Franklin family, James arrived in Middle Tennessee in 1779 after serving in Lord Dunmore's War and the Revolution. One of the Immortal Seventy, he defended Mansker's Station and other frontier sites from Indian attacks. With his wife Mary, from the eminent Lauderdale family of Virginia, he sired ten children in addition to one Franklin-surnamed son from a woman not his wife. Very close to the gravesite, their home "Pilot Knob" was heavily damaged in its long history by two tornado hits, and though portions of it are original, otherwise with newer construction it resembles little the house of James and Mary. It is now referred to as "Golden Era Plantation," and until recently was the home of William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys."
Gravesite Details
The gravesite is located on the backside of Annapolis Bend Circle, Hendersonville, Tennessee within an iron fence, on a lot to itself between two houses.
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