UPON A LONELY HILL

About the Book

On a warm July day in 1979, a sixteen-year-old named Jeffrey Carrier visited the old Donnelly Cemetery in Johnson County, Tennessee, a rural county in the northeast corner of the state. He was there for more than an hour, wandering from stone to stone, writing down every name, date and epitaph. It was the beginning of a project that took him six years to complete, and when it was done, he had visited 282 cemeteries in the county and recorded more than 10,000 names. The information was published in 1985 and has been aiding genealogists and historians ever since. The original edition was a limited printing, and most of those copies have fallen apart and are no longer extant. Except for another limited printing in 2012, the book has mostly been unavailable for use. This professionally-printed edition changes that, as the information is now available to everyone, everywhere who can trace their family roots back to Johnson County, Tennessee or who has an interest in cemeteries.

About the Author

Jeffrey L. Carrier was born in 1963 and grew up in Mountain City, Tennessee. A 1981 graduate of Johnson County High School, he attended Carson-Newman College for two years and graduated with a degree in English from Northern Michigan University in Marquette, in 1985. After briefly pursuing a graduate degree in film history at NYU, in New York City, he continued to live in that city for ten years, working for the advertising agency of Ogilvy & Mather. He was also an account executive at a stock photography agency for several years and has been an on-line retailer since 2002, specializing in film memorabilia. He is the author of three previous books: Jennifer Jones: A Bio-Bibliography, 1990; Tallulah Bankhead: A Bio-Bibliography, 1991; and At the Corner of Guilt and Delight, Growing Up Gay in a Small, Southern Town, 2022. He also assisted silent film actress Patsy Ruth Miller in the writing of her memoir, published in 1988. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio.