Solomon Osborne was born circa 1814 on a Cherokee reservation in North Carolina. He served as a guard on the Trail of Tears and fell in love with Seaberry, also called Martha Arms, the daughter of Chief Running Bear, also called Robert Arms. They escaped and were married in Tazewell County, Virginia. They later moved to what are now Wyoming and Clay counties. He died circa 1884 and was the first interment in the Holcomb Cemetery.