Captain Samuel Handly
Capt. 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 Gov. William Blount. Handly was a member of Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1796, and was a member of the state legislature representing Franklin Co. He is buried three tenths of a mile west of here.
Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 64 and Kasserman Road, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 64.
Courtesy hmdb.org
