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This cemetery is located on Old Bon Air Road, Bon Air, White County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
From the intersection or US-412 E & TN-54, NW of Alamo, in Crockett County, Tennessee, travel southeast on US-412 E for 4.2 mi. to the entrance drive into this large Oak View Cemetery on the west (right) side of the highway, as notated on USGS topo maps. Find a Grave TN Gen Web
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Loudon County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Loudon County was formed on May 27, 1870. Originally, it was named Christiana County, but a few days later the name was changed to Loudon in honor of nearby colonial-era Fort Loudoun. The fort was named for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun and a commander of British forces during the Fren...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Jefferson County was established on June 11, 1792, by William Blount, Governor of the Southwest Territory.[8] It had been a part of Caswell County during the State of Franklin period (1784–1789). During the Civil War, a railroad bridge at Strawberry Plains was among those targeted by the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sullivan County, Tennessee. Official Website Sullivan is Tennessee's second-oldest county; it was established in 1779 when the area was still part of North Carolina. From 1784 to 1788, it was part of the extra-legal State of Franklin. It was named for John Sullivan, a Patriot general in the Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marion County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Marion County was established in 1817 and was named after "The Swamp Fox" Revolutionary War Brigadier General Francis Marion (c1732-1795).In 1779 Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe moved down the Tennessee River from Chickamauga Creek to Running Water creek, and he helped establish the town of N...
Located in St. Elmo at the foot of Lookout Mountain, Forest Hills Cemetery was established in 1880 by a group led by Colonel Abraham Malone Johnson. Forest Hills houses the gravesites of Civil Wars officers, entertainers, industrialists, and even a United States postmaster general. However, Forest Hills is more than a burial ground. It is a monument of history and art. Historical periods are ev...
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...
This cemetery is four blocks from the town square on Third Avenue East. Cemetery established in 1930s. Joined on the east side by Smith County Memorial Garden. Owned by the Town of Carthage, in Smith County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crockett County, Tennessee. Official Website Crockett County was formed in 1871 from portions of Haywood, Madison, Dyer and Gibson counties. It is named in honor of David Crockett (1786–1836), frontier humorist, soldier, Tennessee state legislator and U.S. congressman, and defender of the Alamo. Adjacent Counties Gibson Count...
Abernathy Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA : Find a Grave African American Cemetery. Location: highway 31N at Riversburg; turn right into African Hollow, pass A.M.E. Church Note: African-American Cemetery Note: There are two Abernathy Cemeteries in Giles County.
Aaron Brown Cemetery, Aspen Hill, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 2130 Old McKenzie Highway, Paris, Henry County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Roots Web
This cemetery is located on Oliver Smith Road, Flintville, Lincoln County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Billion Graves USGW Archives
Wikipedia Fisk University is a historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The 40-acre (160,000 m2) campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1930, Fisk was the first African-American institution to gain accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Accreditations for specialized programs ...
The First Battle of Memphis was a naval battle fought on the Mississippi River immediately North of the city of Memphis, Tennessee on June 6, 1862, during the American Civil War. The engagement was witnessed by many of the citizens of Memphis. It resulted in a crushing defeat for the Confederate forces, and marked the virtual eradication of a Confederate naval presence on the river. Despite the...
Wikipedia The University of Tennessee (also referred to as the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, UT Knoxville, UTK, or UT) is a public sun-grant and land-grant university headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee entered the Union as the 16th state, it is the flagship institution of the statewide University of Tennessee system with nin...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in White County, Tennessee. Official Website On September 11, 1806, an act of the Tennessee General Assembly created White County, responding to a petition signed by 155 residents of the area. The origin of the county's name is disputed. The county is officially held to be named for John White (1751–1846), a Revolutionary War soldier,...
According to the Tennessee State Constitution of 1870, the General Assembly is a bicameral legislature and consists of a Senate of thirty-three members and a House of Representatives of ninety-nine members.The representatives are elected to two-year terms; according to a 1966 constitutional amendment the senators are elected to four-year terms which are staggered, with the districts with even n...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fentress County, Tennessee. Official Website Fentress County was formed in 1823 and was named for James Fentress (1763–1843), who served as speaker of the state house, chairman of Montgomery County Court. Fentress County was the site of several saltpeter mines. Saltpeter is the main ingredient of gunpowder and was obtained by leach...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Tennessee. Official Website Fayette County was established by Tennessee General Assembly in 1824. The county was named after the Marquis de la Fayette, French hero of the American Revolution. Fayette County is culturally alike to the Mississippi Delta and was a major area of cotton plantations dependent on slave labo...
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University of Nashville was a private university in Nashville, Tennessee. It was established in 1826 as Cumberland College. It existed as a distinct entity until 1909; operating at various times a medical school, a four-year military college, a literary arts (liberal arts) college, and a boys preparatory school. Educational institutions in operation today that can trace their roots to the Unive...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in DeKalb County, Tennessee. Official Website DeKalb County was formed in 1837 from land in Cannon, Warren and White counties. Historian believes that the first settlers in the county were at Liberty and came from Maryland in 1797. If so, Addison Puckett was the first settler. She may have come over the Cumberland Mountains, although s...