Archibald "Bachelor" Rolen

Notes:

Never married.

Arch lived in a camp dug out of the hillside and did his cooking there but slept in a big loghouse. He was robbed and beaten one time. He had been a school teacher and trader, driving horses and mules to South Carolina.

Family tradition says when he died, money was found hidden in holes in the walls, churn, boxes and straw and feather beds. Arch requested he be buried North and South (all other people were buried East and West). Bob Loveday and an Indian found where his money was buried at the head of his grave but didn't dig for it. Gaine Rolen was with them when they found it. Joe Rolen, Gaine's father, owned the land at the time and John Allen lived on the place. John and Joe were going to dig it up, but it was so rainy they waited to dig for it. The next morning they found where someone had been digging. There was an empty old iron kettle and a piece of oil cloth.
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Reference:
T. D. W McMahan records, Johnny Scott Large, p 64.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 170.
"A Genealogy of the Rolen Family of Sevier County, Tennessee," Wilma Rolen Stucker, 1980, p 1.
"Joab and Anna (McMahan) Rolen Family", Bonita McMahan Rough, March 1995, p 2.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 325.