Green Hill Cemetery (Waynesville, North Carolina)

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Green Hill Cemetery
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William Thomas Crawford grave at Green Hill Cemetery
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LocationGolden Drive, Waynesville, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°29′1″N82°59′27″W / 35.48361°N 82.99083°W / 35.48361; -82.99083
NRHP reference No. 100000897
Added to NRHPJune 1, 2018

Green Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Waynesville, North Carolina, where the town's first doctors, lawyers, politicians, preachers, and business people are buried. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The cemetery is owned and operated by the Town of Waynesville. [2]

Colonel James Robert Love, who donated the land and founded Waynesville and is a hero of the American Revolutionary War, is buried on the highest hill in the cemetery. [3] The white chief of the Cherokee people, William Holland Thomas, is buried there. He was also the founder of Thomas' Legion, a group of local mountaineers and Cherokee who fought during the American Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. This placed the cemetery on the North Carolina Civil Wars Trail. [1] [3]

Some of the other notable pioneers are Congressmen James Moody and William T. Crawford and hotel owner and town promoter S. C. Satterthwaite. The cemetery hold the graves of individuals who succumbed to the Spanish flu of 1918. [1] Buried there are five brothers who were Confederate soldiers that died during the American Civil War. [1] William Greer, the chauffeur to five presidents, including John F. Kennedy on the day of his assassination, is buried at the cemetery. [1] [3]

Thomas Wolfe's father, William Oliver Wolfe, was a tombstone supplier and provided the cemetery's eight pieces of "funeral art", made of stone imported from Italy. An old mill stone was used in the grave marker for Barber's Orchard owner, R.N. Barber. There are other distinctive artistic grave markers in the cemetery. [1] Local author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Caroline Pafford Miller, is buried at Green Hill. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Johnson, Becky (October 8, 2018). "Unearthing the secrets of Greenhill: the mystery and intrigue behind Waynesville's historic cemetery". The Mountaineer. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  2. "Cemetery". The Town of Waynesville, North Carolina. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 "Haywood County's Historic Cemeteries". Visit NC Smokies. October 20, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  4. "Georgia's First Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction Dies". Asheville Citizen-Times . July 14, 1992. Retrieved February 15, 2020.