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My two brothers-in-law brought their weed-eaters and push mower and in a short time had the task of mowing the cemetery completed.
I’d carried along my collection of genealogical information from which I could show the youngsters with us pictures of these their ancestors. Relating some stories from also handed down to me from my years of research. One such story was how our ancestor and a friend of his evaded the conscripters during the Civil War by going up the chimney of the old house and climbing out on the roof and ran to the mountains.
Within the cemetery are buried my great-grandmother, Minnie Atkins Pullen; her parents, “Jim Poley” and Texanna Pullen Atkins; Texanna’s parents, John A. and Melinda Cornwell Pullen. A great-great aunt, “Lizzie Atkins Clatterbuck; two great-great-great-uncles, William A. and John Joseph Pullen; cousin, James Henry “Goose” Pullen, five infants: two Pullens, a Frazier, a Deavers, and Atkins; and a stone monument erected in the early 1900’s by the Hon. William Jennings Bryan in memory of our Lillard ancestors.
This property once being owned by our Revolutionary War ancestor, John Lillard, who was born in 1764 and
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