I might say here that Commissioner's returns do not agree with Scott Powers' statement that Charlie Parsons was the first person to die with flux in Wise County in 1884, ot that Brownlow Powers was the second victim of the epidemic of that year. A poplar tree thrity inches through is growing out of Brownlow Powers' grave. I believe she is still living in the state of Washington. He said he helped to bury Drew's wife. I have heard many people call that, not so old, but sadly neglected, burying ground the Gilliam graveyard, and I have been told that most of the graves there are the graves of Gilliam and Gilliam kin.
Nobody seems to know who was the first person to be buried there.
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