Kings’ Chapel Cemetery / Major William Edmondson

Kings’ Chapel Cemetery, also, Major William Edmondson. . , Kings’ Chapel Cemetery , This sacred burial ground of 48 poles by 100 poles was donated by Major William Edmondson to the trustees of Kings’ Chapel, as mentioned in a deed of 1843 between Robert and Thomas Edmondson to William King. Though the headstones are missing, the following people are believed to be buried here: Major William Edmondson (1765-1832), Frances Boyd Edmondson (wife of William), Anne Edmondson McNeill (daughter), C. Matilda Edmondson (1807-1871), Thisbe Edmondson (1785-1853), Rebecca Edmondson (1755-1831), Andrew N. Carothers (1819-1929),Elizabeth Dran (1776-1841), an infant daughter of E.H. Nails (1823), Rebecca Nails (1826-1827). Only two readable stones survive: Frances Floyd born in 1840 and a granddaughter of Edmondson and Robert Sharp (1772-1849).

Major William Edmondson , Circa 1780, William Edmondson, age 16, a private in the Revolutionary War, fought in the Battle of King’s Mountain. In 1787 he was granted 320 acres for his service in running the “Continental Line” for North Carolina. In 1791, as a major, he signed a petition to President Washington asking for aid against local Indian attacks. In 1794 he fought the Chickamauga Indians near the present-day Chattanooga. In 1799 he was appointed to lay out and improve a road from the mouth of Arrington Creek to Franklin. As one of Williamson County’s earliest settlers and government officials, he served on the county’s first jury