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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Moore County, Tennessee. Official Website Moore County was established in 1871 and named in honor of General William Moore, an early settler and long-time member of the state legislature. Beginning in the 1820s, whiskey distilleries were developed in what is now Moore County. By 1875, fifteen distilleries were operating in the coun...
Wikipedia Tennessee Technological University, popularly known as Tennessee Tech, is an accredited public university located in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States, a city approximately 70 miles east of Nashville. It was formerly known as Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (1915), and before that as University of Dixie, the name under which it was founded as a private institution in 1909. It pla...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Houston County, Tennessee. Official Website The county was founded in 1871 and was named for Sam Houston. Adjacent Counties Dickson County Benton County Stewart County Humphreys County Montgomery County Cities, Towns & Communities Erin (County Seat) McKinnon Stewart Tennessee Ridge (part) Links W...
The Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame is a non-profit, volunteer organization that recognizes women who have contributed to history of the U.S. state of Tennessee.The organization was founded and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2010 to recognize accomplished women who have impacted the development of the state of Tennessee and improved the status of other women. It is the brainchild o...
The cemetery is atop a steep hill on the west side of Old Hwy 31E, 2.2 miles north of Hwy 52, and 1.6 miles south of Turners Station, Westmoreland, Sumner County, Tennessee. It is also known as Heath Cemetery . Find a Grave USGW Archives
This project is for those buried in Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, Lincoln County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Unicoi County, Tennessee. Official Website Unicoi County was created in 1875. The name is a Cherokee word meaning "white," "hazy," "fog-like," or "fog draped." Adjacent Counties Carter County Washington County Mitchell County, NC Yancey County, NC Madison County, NC Greene County Towns & Communities
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Davidson County, Tennessee. It contains the state capital of Tennessee, Nashville . Official Website Davidson County is the oldest county in the 41-county region of Middle Tennessee. It dates to 1783, shortly after the end of the American Revolution, when the North Carolina legislature created the county and named it in honor of Wil...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grainger County, Tennessee. Official Website History Grainger County was formed from Knox and Hawkins Counties in 1796, the year Tennessee became the sixteenth state of the United States. It is named for Mary Grainger Blount, wife of William Blount. During the American Civil War, a state of near-guerrilla warfare brought economic...
I would like to find the connection, if any, to the Scoggins of Bradley County, TN and Grayson Co., TX. The Texas family was found in a Grayson County cemetery : There is a Benjamin Franklin Scoggins buried there (1832-1914). "My" Benjamin was born in North Carolina around 1828 and I don't know where he died. Public discussion on the same subject as this project. If you would like to contri...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Official Website Hamilton County was formed on October 25, 1819 and was named after Alexander Hamilton, an officer in the American Revolutionary War, member of the Continental Congress, the first US Secretary of Treasury, and one of the founding fathers of the United States. The area was originally occup...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carroll County, Tennessee. Official Website The county was established by the Tennessee General Assembly on November 7, 1821, and was named for Governor William Carroll. Adjacent Counties Henry County Benton County Decatur County Henderson County Madison County Gibson County Weakley County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sumner County, Tennessee. Official Website British colonial longhunters traveled into the area as early as the 1760s, following existing Indian and buffalo trails. By the early 1780s, they had erected several trading posts in the region. The most prominent was Mansker's Station, which was built by Kasper Mansker near a salt lick (wh...
The cemetery is located on 50 Margin Avenue, Bells, Crockett County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Johnson County, Tennessee. Official Website Johnson County was created in 1836 and was named after Thomas Johnson, an early settler. Adjacent Counties Ashe County, North Carolina Grayson County, Virginia Watauga County, North Carolina Avery County, North Carolina Carter County Sullivan County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Trousdale County, Tennessee. Official Website = Trousdale County was formed in 1870. It was named for William Trousdale (1790–1872), Brigadier General in the Mexican War, Governor of Tennessee, 1849–1851, and U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1853–1857. On December 7, 1862, the Battle of Hartsville occurred within the boundaries of the cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Tennessee. Official Website During the early part of the 18th century, this area was known as part of the traditional homelands of the Cherokee Nation. In 1756, during the French and Indian War (the North American front of the Seven Years War), the British established Fort Loudoun on the Little Tennessee River near i...
This active cemetery opened in 1891 with the first burial occurring in 1892. The cemetery covers 96 acres. Office hours are M-F, 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. Cemetery gates are open for visitors daily until sunset. This cemetery, also known as Beautiful Greenwood Cemetery , is located on 1954 Greenwood Road, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hardin County, Tennessee. Official Website Hardin County was formed in November, 1819. The county was named for Revolutionary War veteran, Joseph Hardin, a former colonial assemblyman for the Province of North Carolina, Speaker of the House for the unrecognized State of Franklin and a territorial legislator of the Southwest Territor...
Added a properly titled Project to replace this one. Would have edited title but don't know how. Would like to delete this project but don't know how.Please refer to Project entitled:United States Senators from Tennessee
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Scott County, Tennessee. Official Website Scott County was formed in 1849 and is named for U.S. Army General Winfield Scott, a hero of the Mexican War. During the Civil War, the county was a Southern Unionist bastion, voting against secession from the Union in Tennessee's June 1861 referendum by a higher percentage (521 to 19, or 9...
The cemetery is located on 200 East Ray Street, Dickson, Dickson County, Tennessee. It is also known as East Dickson Cemetery . Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lewis County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Lewis County was formed in 1843 and was named for explorer Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Lewis's grave is located at the geographic center of the county. Lewis County was the site of the Cane Creek Massacre. The massacre, also known as Tennessee’s Mormon Massac...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rhea County, Tennessee. Official Website History Rhea County is named for the Tennessee politician and Revolutionary War veteran John Rhea. A portion of the Trail of Tears ran through the county as part of the United States government's removal of the Cherokee in the 1830s. During the American Civil War, Rhea County was one of t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anderson County, Tennessee. Before the formation of Anderson County, Tennessee , that territory was initially land of what is today called the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians , which had been settled by several pioneer families including the Wallace, Gibbs, Freels, Frost and Tunnell families. Although the Treaty of Holston, signed i...