Memorials : 0
Location : Morristown, Hamblen County, USA
Description : Christian Purkeypile, Sr. - eldest son of Westerwälder emigrant Andreas, who himself died in Jul. 1773 - died in 1805, supposedly in the spring (supposedly March) or August. He is supposed to have been buried in the area of what is now Grainger County and Morristown, in "Bright's Pass." Nothing else is known of "Bright's Pass." (www.earljones.net) "Christian...moved to...Tennessee [locating northeast of Morristown near Liberty Hill Church...], and is buried on the old homestead site on the hill above Bud Wolfe's." Above by Mary Ellen Horner, dau. of M. J. Purkey. (http://home.earthlink.net/~carolet1/Purkey_story.html)

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