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Captain Samuel Handly fought in the Indian Wars of the 1770's and in the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. Indians captured him in a battle at Crab Orchard and released him after negotiations with Governor William Blount. Handly was a member of the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1796 and a member of the state legislature representing Franklin County. He is buried three tenths of a mile west of here.
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