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Giles County, Tennessee

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  • Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3218150/james-battle-rivers
    William Cannon Rivers (1866 - 1943)
    War I veteran appointed officer from TN Stationed at Ft. Allen, Vt, Camp Shelby, Mississippi, Camp Merritt, NJ and France Overseas 4-23-18 to 4-2-19 Awarded DSM and Fr C de G.Taken from the Williamson ...
  • Henry Walter "Red" Mitchell, Jr. (1918 - 2008)
    Henry Walter "Red" Mitchell, Jr., 90, of Pulaski, TN., died Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, at NHC Healthcare of Pulaski, TN. He was a native of Franklin Co., TN, retired from Salant & Salant and was a member o...
  • James Carthen Harrison, (CSA) (1839 - 1915)
    Fayetteville Observer July 29, 1915 P:4 C:3 Mr. J. C. Harrison, aged 76 years 3 months and 2 days, died at Morell's Mill of a complication of diseases on Monday July 19, 1915. For over 45 years he had...
  • 2LT Lewis Scott Gardner, USA (1915 - 1943)
    Second Lieutenant, 568th Bomber Squadron, 390th Bomber Group, Heavy; U.S. Army Air Forces. Lost in a bombing raid over Muenster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Entered the service from Charlotte, Nort...
  • Pvt. William Stratton Jones (CSA) (1845 - 1864)
    William Stratton Jones, oldest child of Henry Cox Jones and his wife Martha Louisa Keyes Jones. William was born on 3 NOV 1845, and he was killed on 27 SEP 1864, in Pulaski TN, in the service of the Co...

This project is for those who were born, lived, or died in Giles County, Tennessee.

Giles County is named after William Branch Giles, a senator from Virginia who sponsored the admission of Tennessee as the 16th state into the Union. He also sponsored the building of the city and courthouse, which has burned four times. The current courthouse was built in 1909. One of Giles County's local heroes is James McCallum, who served as grandmaster of the Tennessee Masons, a member of the Confederate Congress, and mayor. He lived in Giles County for 70 years.

Until Maury County was established in November 1807, the area of the future Giles County was part of Williamson County. Two years after the formation of Maury County, Giles County was created from southern Maury County on November 14, 1809, by an act of the state legislature. Nearly half of the new county lay in Chickasaw territory until September 1816.

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