The Billy Dotson Graveyard is one of the oldest burying grounds in the The Pound section of Wise County.
Nobody knows when or for whom the first grave was dug there.
Dotson told me that a big oak tree turned up there forty years ago and that they found an old carved out, but unlettered, tombstone embedded in its roots. Tom is eighy-two years old and the only living son of Billy Dotson, and he says that he believes the graveyard was started long before he was born. It was on this long, low, flat top hill that juts off southwest from a high ridge that runs down between the Middle and Mead forks of Bold Camp, and about four hundred yards northeast of the Middle Fork Road. The plot contains about an acre, is fenced with woven wire, and is in a fairly well-kept condition. I visited it at ten minutes till five, Wednesday afternoon, September 9, 1936.