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Elizabethton Obituaries

It was revealed by Galax Gazette on December 21st, 2018 that Dorothy Foster (Orr) died in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  Ms. Foster was 89 years old and was born in Elizabethton, TN.  Send flowers to express your sympathy and honor Dorothy's life.

It was written by Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati Post on December 3rd, 2018 that Doris J Taliaferro passed on in Toledo, Ohio.  Taliaferro was 80 years old and was born in Elizabethton, TN.  Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Doris J's life.

It was written by The Roanoke Times & World News on November 22nd, 2018 that Pauline Elizabeth Carter (Dame) passed on in Roanoke, Virginia.  Ms. Carter was 90 years old and was born in Elizabethton, TN.  Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Pauline Elizabeth's life.

It was noted by Vernal Express on November 20th, 2018 that Alec Rozell "Butch" Fouts died in Vernal, Utah.  Fouts was 75 years old and was born in Elizabethton, TN.  Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Alec Rozell "Butch"'s life.

It was written on October 21st, 2018 that Jack Leonard Finley passed away in Elizabethton, Tennessee.  Finley was 73 years old and was born in Buffalo, WY.  Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Jack Leonard's life.

It was written on October 15th, 2018 that Charles James Hogston perished in Elizabethton, Tennessee.  Hogston was 93 years old.  Send flowers to express your sympathy and honor Charles James's life.

It was disclosed on September 27th, 2018 that Joseph Wayne Depew perished in Elizabethton, Tennessee.  Depew was 69 years old.  Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Joseph Wayne's life.

It was noted by The Star on September 22nd, 2018 that Darrell "Dolly" Spake (Egli) passed away in Shelby, North Carolina.  Ms. Spake was 87 years old and was born in Elizabethton, TN.  Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Darrell "Dolly"'s life.

It was revealed on July 2nd, 2018 that Evelyn Lewis (Carden) perished in Elizabethton, Tennessee.  Ms. Lewis was 88 years old.  Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Evelyn's life.

It was disclosed on June 21st, 2018 that Kathleen Ora Grindstaff (Simerly) died in Elizabethton, Tennessee.  Ms. Grindstaff was 87 years old.  Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Kathleen Ora's life.

History

This came to be known as the Trail of Tears, as an estimated 4,000 Cherokees died along the way . The names of the cultural groups that inhabited the area between first settlement and the time of European contact are unknown, but several distinct cultural phases have been named by archaeologists, including Archaic period Woodland period and Mississippian culture whose chiefdoms were the cultural predecessors of the Creek people people who inhabited the Tennessee River Valley prior to Cherokee migration into the river's headwaters. Elizabethton is also the historical site of the first independent Human settlement on American soil (1772) and located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original thirteen British colonization of the Americas colonies in America.

The area now known as Tennessee was first settled by Paleo-Indians nearly 11,000 years ago. When Conquistador explorers first visited Tennessee, led by Hernando de Soto (explorer) de Soto in 1539–43, it was inhabited by tribes of Creek people and Yuchi people. Possibly because of European diseases devastating the Native tribes, which would have left a population vacuum, and also from expanding European settlement in the north, the Cherokee moved south from the area now called Virginia.

The official website for the city of Elizabethton is https://www.dyersburgtn.gov/.