Sam was the son of Nathan and Annie McKinney Birchfield who lived in Yancey County, NC and in the Limestone Cave area of Carter County, TN. He met Rosannah Hyatt in Cades Cove, TN where her father Shadrach was postmaster for awhile. Two of his brothers had settled in Cades Cove and he most likely had been visiting them when he met Rosannah. After they married (she was about 14 and he was 23), the young couple lived in Carter County for awhile, three of their children being born there, before they returned to Blount County where several more children were born. About 1850 they moved across the state line to what was Cherokee County, NC but is now Graham County. They settled in the Tallulah section where Sam became a prosperous farmer and trader. Their youngest daughter, Viannah, was born there. A little before 1870 they moved to Haywood County and lived in the Ivy Hills District. This was the same area Rosannah's paternal grandfather Edward Gaither Hyatt and her father Shadrach, among the county's first white settlers, had bought land and settled about 1785. Many of the descendants of their sons Ezekiel and William live in Haywood County in 2010, several in the same community in which Sam and Rosannah lived.
Sam was the son of Nathan and Annie McKinney Birchfield who lived in Yancey County, NC and in the Limestone Cave area of Carter County, TN. He met Rosannah Hyatt in Cades Cove, TN where her father Shadrach was postmaster for awhile. Two of his brothers had settled in Cades Cove and he most likely had been visiting them when he met Rosannah. After they married (she was about 14 and he was 23), the young couple lived in Carter County for awhile, three of their children being born there, before they returned to Blount County where several more children were born. About 1850 they moved across the state line to what was Cherokee County, NC but is now Graham County. They settled in the Tallulah section where Sam became a prosperous farmer and trader. Their youngest daughter, Viannah, was born there. A little before 1870 they moved to Haywood County and lived in the Ivy Hills District. This was the same area Rosannah's paternal grandfather Edward Gaither Hyatt and her father Shadrach, among the county's first white settlers, had bought land and settled about 1785. Many of the descendants of their sons Ezekiel and William live in Haywood County in 2010, several in the same community in which Sam and Rosannah lived.
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