Tombstones for Andy and Synthia Farley

Tombstones for Andy and Synthia Farley

Cemeteries

Grave markers

Sepulchral monuments

A tombstone reading “Infant of Andy Farley” and another nearby reading “Synthia L. Farley; Apr. 16, 1840; Feb 18, 1916” stand in the Lone Oak Baptist Church Cemetery off US 129, northwest of Robbinsville. B 350 is written on the negative. The photographer, “Doc” Kelly Bennett (1890-1974), was a prominent pharmacist in Swain County, NC. Owner of the Bryson City Drug Company, Bennett served as alderman and mayor of Bryson City, on the Swain County Board of Education, as well as several terms as NC State Senator and NC State Representative. He participated in numerous other initiatives and organizations. Known as the “Apostle of the Smokies,” Bennett was an instrumental figure in the movement to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He was also an avid photographer, skillfully documenting a wide variety of people, places, and events in Swain County and the surrounding area.

Bennett, Kelly, 1890-1974

Kelly Bennett Collection

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

negatives (photographs)

eng

StillImage

71014

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/71014

Graham County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia