Billy was a well-to-do champion corn farmer. He had five thousand dollars worth of real property in the 1860 census. His first wife was Eleanor Allen and they had seven children all born in North Carolina. Second marriage was to Fatina Stephens and they had four children. Photo on left side is Ira Cornelious Cole born 1901 and died 1997 and his grandson Lonnie Cole at the grave of William "Billy" Cole born 17 April 1798 in North Carolina and died 28 June, 1862 in Fannin County, Georgia. The grave used to have a rock pile 3 feet high and 7 or 8 feet long and 4 feet wide in a field in Hemp Valley 1 and 1/2 mile northeast of Morganton on the north side of Hemptown Creek on a farm later owned by the Sullivan family. Ira interviewed many older persons in Fannin County, Union County and Polk County, Tennessee about this grave and wrote a letter in the 1960s about what he knew to Mrs. Ardath Stedman of Denton, Texas. Ira said William Billy Cole was buried here with his white horse during the time of the War between the States. He was thrown off the horse and died. And the horse was buried beside him. The location was in Billy Coles' cornfield at the time of his death. Billy Cole's son James Noel Cole is buried in a nearby pet cemetery south of Billy's grave. -Danny Mashburn
Billy was a well-to-do champion corn farmer. He had five thousand dollars worth of real property in the 1860 census. His first wife was Eleanor Allen and they had seven children all born in North Carolina. Second marriage was to Fatina Stephens and they had four children. Photo on left side is Ira Cornelious Cole born 1901 and died 1997 and his grandson Lonnie Cole at the grave of William "Billy" Cole born 17 April 1798 in North Carolina and died 28 June, 1862 in Fannin County, Georgia. The grave used to have a rock pile 3 feet high and 7 or 8 feet long and 4 feet wide in a field in Hemp Valley 1 and 1/2 mile northeast of Morganton on the north side of Hemptown Creek on a farm later owned by the Sullivan family. Ira interviewed many older persons in Fannin County, Union County and Polk County, Tennessee about this grave and wrote a letter in the 1960s about what he knew to Mrs. Ardath Stedman of Denton, Texas. Ira said William Billy Cole was buried here with his white horse during the time of the War between the States. He was thrown off the horse and died. And the horse was buried beside him. The location was in Billy Coles' cornfield at the time of his death. Billy Cole's son James Noel Cole is buried in a nearby pet cemetery south of Billy's grave. -Danny Mashburn
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