Washington County, Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists. Information used with the permission of Lorraine Bennett Rae.
From volume 2, page 216 – entry 2-82
“Two children – about 5 and 12 yrs – are buried on the left of the ridge. They died with whooping cough during the Civil War. Their father made their caskets and planned to move them to a cemetery when the war was over; however, he was killed during the war. This story told by Dollie Ratliff Henley to Mildred M. Brittain, who visited these graves March 23, 1978.”
LOCATION – In the Clark’s Creek community. Anyone with firsthand information is now deceased. Conversations with a few Ratliff and Henley descendants were to no avail. The approximate location is on or near tax parcels 102-025.00 and/or 102-027.00 in Washington County. No further information found.
DEEDS – All deeds reviewed were quiet.
BURIALS – The names of the children and the father are unknown.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web August 2015 by Gordon M. Edwards, member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2015 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.