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Location: Across from 482 Cole Hollow Road on the top of the hill, this cemetery is very difficult to locate

Description: Also known as the Cretsinger Cemetery.
Located across from 482 Cole Hollow Road on the top of the hill, this cemetery is very difficult to locate and only contains a few field stones. We found three, one being a small child grave.

Additional information can be found on the Sullivan County TNGENWEB site.

USGS Map: Indian Springs

GPS Location: 36.583714, -82.391808

Elevation: 1667 ft.

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Additional Information

1850 Census of Sullivan County

Page 116B, household #1508                           Page 128B, household #1676

CRUTSINGER, Solomon        54                                CRUTSINGER, Charles          40

Mary                39                                                           Mary                80

Daniel               19

Mary                17

Jacob               14                                                  Page 23, household #171

Elizabeth           13                                               CRUTSINGER, Jacob             64

Wm.                 9                                                          Ann                  56

Noah                6                                                    SWICEGOOD, David 40

Catharine          4                                                       Nancy              38

Gaines              3                                                          Wm.                 19

Nancy              2

1860 Census of Sullivan County

District 9, Piney Flats Post Office, in the Agnes Weaver household # 661 is William Crutsinger, age 19

District 10, Arcadia Post Office                                    District 9, Piney Flats Post Office

Page 105, household # 753                                            Page 103, household #688

CRUTSINGER, Daniel          27                                    CRUTSINGER, Solomon        63

Elizabeth           25                                                              Mary                49

James Nelson   6                                                                Jacob               23

George W.       2                                                                  William 18

Noah                15

Catharine          13

Nancy J.           11

David               8

Mary A.           4

BOWERY, James          12

Marriage ledger book #2, page 344

2 Jul 1880        George Cretsinger – Mollie Robeson, 4 Jul 1880, O. E. Sams, MG

The following story was taken from the book, Historic Sullivan by Oliver Taylor, copyright 1909.  Reprinted with index, 1988.

“Jacob and Ann Cretsinger were the heads of a German family who lived southeast of Blountville and became known throughout the country for their ginger-cakes.  On muster days or at public speakings, races or shooting matches they could be found dispensing their cakes–invariably charging ten cents apiece for them.  What recommended them most was their delicious ginger flavor and the fact that they remained fresh for a long time.

“On court days they could be seen coming into Blountville in a little one-horse wagon, and the children, with their dimes in their hands, waited on top of fences to get the first peep at them as they appeared in the town.

“Their coming was always greeted by the crowd with ‘here comes the Cretsingers’ and there would be a rush for the wagon.

“How these cakes were made no one but the originators seemed to know.  It is known they sweetened them with honey and made their own soda out of popular bark ashes, while, jestingly, they were accused of kneading the dough with their feet.

“They professed to have given the recipe to others, but those familiar with the original insist that the making of the old time Cretsinger ginger-cake has become a lost art.”