The Divide Cemetery [also known as State Line or Sam's Creek Cemetery] is located off Rt. 23W at Sams Gap at the NC-TN border, about 5 miles south of Flag Pond, TN.  From the town of Erwin, take I-26 towards Asheville, NC and exit Temple Hill Road.  This is old US Highway 19-23W which splits at Ernestville, TN.  Continue straight on US 23W heading east towards Flag Pond for about 20 minutes.  The cemetery is about 150 feet off US Hwy 23W. 

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PART II - The Grave Listings:

1a.  BARRETT, A. J. [Andrew Jackson]
b. October 6, 1841 - d. October 14, 1900

[s/o Thomas Barrett and Keziah Metcalf]

 

1b.  BARRETT, Mary Ann M. [HENSLEY]
b. July 4, 1845 - d. June 14, 1932
[d/o of unknown Hensley and Sinda #16; w/o Andrew J. #1; children: Turner, John, Hannah-Jane #4,William, Kittie Sue #3]
NOTE:  Family listed on the 1880 Madison Co., NC census; family lived at Middle Fork of Ivy area.

 

2.  BARRETT, Sue
b. May 13, 1876 - d. July 24, 1940
[d/o A. J. Barrett and Mary Ann #1/2]

 

3.  BARRETT, Betty Lou

b. November  28, 1954 - d. April 16, 1955

 

4.  BUCKNER, Janie  [Hannah Jane BARRETT]

b.  March 27, 1871 - d. June 20, 1951
[d/o Andrew. J. Barrett and Mary Ann Hensley]

 

5.  WHITE, Polly

b.  1800 - d. 1894

\[w/o Frank White]

 

6.  EDMONDS-REED, Katherine [WHITE]

b. October 30, 1836 - d. December 31, 1930
[d/o Mary "Polly"#5 and Frank White; children: William, Elijah, Marcena, Sarah E., Thomas.
NOTE:  During the 1880 Census, husband is gone [died about 1876] and Katherine is listed as a widow; mother, Polly, is living in the household with Katherine's children.

 

7a.  BUCKNER, Harold R.

b. April 22, 1935 - d. July 12, 1997

 

7b. wife - alive

 

8a.  MELTON, Sidney M.
b. August 10, 1875 - d. December 21, 1958

 

8b.  MELTON, Katy W.
b. April 7, 1875 - d. November 3, 1958
[w/o Sidney M. #7]

 

9.  HENSLEY, William Henry

b. December 10, 1876 - d. November 8, 1955

[s/o Barnett Hensley and Lucinda Metcalf; wife-Jennie; children: Frances, Harriett #49 and Carrie #46b]

 

10.  HENSLEY, Laura Jane
b. 1880 - 1957
[w/o John Wesley Hensley Sr. #11]

 

11.  HENSLEY, John Wesley, Sr.
b. 1869 - d. 1946

[s/o William Marion Hensley and Margaret Hensley]

 

12.  WHEELER, Gary Zane
b.  January 20, 1960 - d. January 24, 1960
[died in 4 days]

13. WHEELER, Cornelius Emerson
b. July 4, 1895 - d. December 30, 1975

 

14.  WHEELER, Essie METCALF
b. April 10, 1898 - d. February 29, 1980
[w/o Cornelius E. Wheeler; d/o Wesley Metcalf and Louise Waldrop #28a/b]

 

15.  HENSLEY, Lucinda

b. 1820 - 1917

 

16.  HENSLEY, Sinda

b. 1825 - d. September 14, 1909

[unknown parents and husband; children: Mary Ann, Joel, John Henry, Nathan.]
NOTE:  husband is unknown - during the 1850 Buncombe Co. NC Census and 1860 Wash. Co., TN census - she was living alone wit her young children: Mary Ann #2, Joel, John Henry, Nathan.   In the 1880 Madison Co. Census - she was living with her son Nathan; and a few doors down from her live Henry Clay Metcalf.  During the 1900 Madison Co., NC Census - she was age 82 living with her dau. Mary Ann Hensey and A J Barrett and also indicated "widow".

 

17.  HENSLEY, Deronie

b. April 18, 1919 - d. March 3, 1940

"In Memory of our Loved One"

 

18a.  METCALF, G. D. [George Daniel]
b. February 22, 1873 - d. October 17, 1934
[s/o John Benjamin Metcalf and Sarah E. Crowder #29a/b]
NOTE:  Unicoi Co. Death record states he was born in 1878; cause of death was "Indigestion"

18b.  METCALF, Lovada [HENSLEY]
b. February 28, 1877 - d. March 27, 1920
[w/o George D. Metcalf; d/o William Marion Hensley and Margaret Hensley; children: Backus #24, Dempsey #21a, John Lattie #22, Ulysses #46,  Hubert E. #24,  Bart, Jake #55, Dessie #19, Zade #57, Toney #56,]

NOTE: Unicoi Co. death record #405-1920, cause of death "pulmonary tuberculosis", informant George Metcalf of Flag Pond; buried "Sams Creek Cem". 

 

19. ENGLISH, Dessie METCALF
b. 1898 - d. 1928
[d/o George D. Metcalf and Lovada Hensley]

 

20a. METCALF, Irene
b. January 6, 1933 - d. May 4, 1933
[d/o Jake Metcalf #55a and Donna]

 

20b.  METCALF, Johnnie
b. February 19, 1930 - d. April 3, 1930
[s/o Dempsey Metcalf and Ruby Phillips #21a/b]
NOTE:  Unicoi Co. death record #9952; cause of death "pneumonia"; parents mention in record and buried in "Sams Creek" cem.

 

22a.  METCALF, John L. [Lattie]

b. 1907 - d. 1972
[s/o George D. Metcalf and Lavada Hensley #18/19]

 

22b.  METCALF, Ordie Jane [STANTON]
b. July 2, 1929 - d. April 1, 1999
"By Loving Sister Sarah"
[w/o John Lattie Metcalf; children: Howard #23 and Jack]

 

23.  METCALF, Howard
b. April 8, 1950 - d. December 7, 1950

 

24.  METCALF, Backes
b. 1904 - d. 1950
[s/o George D. Metcalf and Lavada Hensley #18/19]

 

25.  METCALF, James H.
b.  1876 - d. March 7, 1953
"Died at 77"
[s/o Henry Clay Metcalf and Sarah Ann Crawford]

 

26.  METCALF, Hobart E.
b. January 26, 1897 - d. June 1, 1957
Pvt. US Army - WWI
[s/o Samuel Ervin Metcalf and Hattie Mathes]

 

27a.  METCALF, Hyrum 
b. 1807 - d. February 16, 1898
[s/o Absalom Abraham Metcalf and Nancy S. Maney]

 

29b. METCALF, Sarah Elizabeth  [CROWDER]
b. September 13, 1850 - d.  abt. 1830
[d/o Anderson M. Crowder of SC and Peggy Burns; w/o John B. Metcalf, married July 27, 1872; children: George Daniel #18, Samuel Erwin]

 

30.  METCALF, Henry
b. June 11, 1884 - d. October 27, 1947
[s/o Wesley Metcalf and Louise Waldrop #28a/b]

 

31.  METCALF, Paul H.
b/d  April 27, 1956

 

32.  METCALF, Susan CLENDENNON
b. February 17, 1859 - d. November 16, 1940
[w/o Enos Henry Metcalf; d/o William Clendenon and Elizabeth Waddle of Greene Co., TN;

children: Cora, Oscar, Thomas, Susan, Della, Robert R. #33, Joel #35, Willard #36, John #37]
NOTE:  Susan married Enos Henry Metcalf [b. 9/09/1860 - d. 12/27/1892] buried Williamston Memorial Park,  Williamston, Anderson Co., SC.  He is in the same cemetery as his brother, W. Brownlee Metcalf.   The family lived in SC until Henry died in 1927, after which time, widow Susan returned to the Flag Pond area, TN after 1930.   [info courtesy of Trudy Stephens]

 

33.  METCALF, Robert R. [Roscoe]
b.  ? - d. February 13, 1939
Pvt. Quarter Master Corp. - Tennessee

[s/o E. Henry Metcalf and Susan Clendennon #32]

 

34.  METCALF, Flona Mae
b.  February 21, 1938 - d. May 19, 1939

 

35.  METCALF, Joel
b. August 1906 - d. May 1, 1948

[s/o E. Henry Metcalf and Susan Clendennon #32]

 

36.  METCALF,  Willard
b. September 6, 1900 - d. June 18, 1957

[s/o E. Henry Metcalf and Susan Clendennon #32]

 

37.  METCALF, John
b. February 17, 1899 - d. January 8, 1953
[s/o Henry Metcalf #30 and Susan Glendennon #32]

 

38.  METCALF, Robert Roscoe

b. May 20, 1895 - d. April 22, 1983

US Army - WW I

 

39.  METCALF, Wayne Wesley
b. April 7, 1920 - d. March 21, 1970
Tech 4 - US Army, WWII

 

40.  METCALF, Eva Jane
b. March `19, 1886 - d. May 20, 1973
"At Rest"

 

41a.  KING, Jenette METCALF
b.  December 24, 1936 - d. September 2, 1966
"Singing in Glory Land"
[w/o Jerrell King (buried in Lower Higgins Creek); d/o Bart Metcalf #58a and private]

NOTE:  cause of death "uremia due to thrombosis"

 

41b.  KING, Infant Daughter

b/d ?
[d/o of Jenette Metcalf and Jerrel King]

 

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