Category Archives: History

1840 Bull Horn

This bull horn was brought to the March 5, 2018 Chester County Historical Society meeting.The names on the plate are William F. Henderson, H. W. McCorry,Sr., H. W. McCorry, Jr., and Thos. McCorry. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18550386/william-f.-henderson https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112057102/henry-w.-mccorry

Goodspeed’s History of Chester County

Chester County embraces an area of 167,000 acres and is on the water-shed between the head waters of South Fork of Forked Deer River and the small tributaries of the Tennessee. It is surrounded by the counties of Madison, Henderson, Hardin, McNairy and Hardeman. The surface is comparitively level and