Three Trice brothers were early settlers in Jack's Creek Community when it was in Henderson Co., alongside McCorkles, Tablers and Watlingtons. The Watlingtons moved shortly after 1830 to Madison County, near the Mason Wells Community. The Trices continued near Jack's Creek in what later became Chester County. The three Trice brothers were John Calvin, Verbon H. and Gray Harrison. All three, along with members of their families, are buried in the Hamlett-Trice Cemetery near Jack's Creek. Their parents, Harrison Trice and Gillie Barbee from Orange Co., N.C., settled in Henderson Co., Tenn., and were buried at Timberlake Cemetery, north of Lexington, Tenn.
Gray Harrison Trice (1808-1875) married Sarah Adeline Wheatley (1822-1880) and they had five daughters and two sons. Their third daughter, Eliza Jane married (ca. 1875) Mack Harvey Watlington (1850-1933), the oldest son of William T. Watlington and Elizabeth Ozier. At the death of G. H. Trice, they inherited a good farm at Jack's Creek and made it their family home. Mack Harvey Watlington also owned a part of the old George Watlington farm near Diamond Grove Community. They became a prosperous farm family with five children. One of them, Edna Homer Watlington became a well known school teacher in Chester Co.
The Trice family has many descendents and several of them still live nearby in Chester, Madison and Henderson counties. The Hamlett-Trice Cemetery is a well groomed cemetery and noted for its fine stones. Home sites of Trice, Hamlett and Watlington families have become well known historical sites in the Jack's Creek area.