In this article, I continue a review of the Wilson-Greer Family History tour of June 2012 attended by 25 descendants of my maternal 18th and 19th Century pioneer ancestors in the mountains and coves of western North Carolina.
One of the graves in the Henson Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery in Cove Creek, North Carolina is that of Polly Jane Wilson Proffitt (1852-1937), a daughter of Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson of Sutherland, North Carolina. Polly Jane was in the corn field with this writer's great grandmother, Frances Wilson Osborne, when their father, Lt. Isaac Wilson of the Confederate North Carolina Home Guard, was 'bushwhacked' and killed by Union sympathizing neighbors in June 1864. Her grave is below.
Polly married James Harvey Proffitt (sometimes spelled with one 't') of Cove Creek, and many Proffitt kin are buried in Henson Cemetery as the large gravestone below attests.
The Proffitts long have been active in the Henson Chapel as the window below suggests. I believe my great grandfather, G.W. Osborne was licensed a lay minister in the United Methodist Church in Cove Creek when he lived in the valley in the late 1870s to 1896. James Harvey Proffitt, memorialized below in a church window, was G.W. Osborne's brother-in-law.
Below Jame Harvey and Polly Wilson Proffitt, ca 1900. Photo courtesy of Clinton Getzinger.
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