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Submitted: 4/22/14 • Approved: 4/22/14 • Last Updated: 8/15/15 • R56604-G0-S3
The skyway was built over Stratton Meadows.
Absalom grave is now off to your left if coming from the Tennessee side just at the beginning of Stratton Meadows bridge. It is off to your right if coming from North Carolina at the end of the bridge.
Absalom (AB Strutton/Stratton was born in 1772 in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, NC. According to local story, Absalom was visiting his son John who lived at Stratton Meadow, in a big two-story log house about 200 yards inside Tennessee. Absalom got sick and he and others in the family knew he was going to die. John and some of his sons cut a large tree and from it they hewed a coffin. Absalom said he liked Tennessee and North Carolina equally well and wanted to be buried in both states. They buried him astride the line, with his head in North Carolina and his feet in Tennessee. This area was called Stratton Meadow.
Photograph courtesy of:
Mike Gourley
Contributed on 4/22/14 by ashaw444
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