Wilson-Greer 2012 Family Tour, Part XIII

by Glenn N. Holliman

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The afternoon was growing late, and only a few of us could make the trip to Henson Chapel, a United Methodist Church and cemetery in Cove Creek, perhaps a dozen or so miles south of Sutherland, North Carolina.  It was late June 2012, and the sun stayed high until evening.  Our goal was the church where G.W. Osborne and Frances Wilson Greer had worshipped when they lived in the Cove from the late 1870s to 1896.  Cove Creek is still largely agricultural although many of the farms have been subdivided into 'mini-estates'. 

The scene below is looking into a valley standing on the Henson Cemetery site viewing the church parking lot and mountains in the distance. Clinton Getzinger and Bob Adema discuss the gravestones.

 

 

 

Below, Bob and Gayle Adema stand between two Osborne headstones.  The one on the left is of Eddie Carlock Osborne (1886), a son of G.W. (1846 - 1928) and Frances Wilson Osborne (1851-1940).

 

The grave on the right is of Leroy (1879-1948) and Lena Holtsclaw Osborne's daughter, Lucile, who died the day she was born in 1907.  Leroy was a son of G.W. and Frankie Wilson Osborne.  Bob, as is this writer, is a great grandson of G.W. and Frankie.  Both of us are great, great grandsons of Isaac (1822-1864) and Caroline Greer Wilson (1828-1911).  Bob and Gayle came from Canada to make the family tour with numerous other Wilson-Greer kinfolk.

 

Below is a close up of the headstone of Eddie Osborne, lonely since his parents left Cove Creek in 1896.

 

The headstone of Lucile Osborne represents the pathos of a infant died at birth.  Both parents, Leroy and Lena Osborne were natives of Cove Creek, evidently living there at the time. Later Roy would spend his life as a farmer in Cleveland, Tennessee.

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