Authors Donald Hill, of Birmingham, Alabama, and Willie Sue Partin Hill, of Decherd, Tennessee, compiled a history of the Wilder’s Chapel community in 2009 and deposited the text at the USGenWeb Archives. Click here to read the text.
County Historian Mr. Jerry T. Limbaugh 4623 Lynchburg Road Winchester, TN 37398 Click here to view the full listing of County Historians maintained by the Tennessee State Library & Archives Genealogical / Historical / Preservation Societies Franklin County, Tennessee Historical Society Web site Facebook E-mail Peter Turney Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Nashville Chapter Tennessee Genealogical Society Tennessee Historical Society FamilySearch Wiki has a page that lists several genealogical…
The purpose of this Web site is to provide the names of African-Americans, mostly former slaves, who applied for pensions in Tennessee claiming to have served with the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The names were compiled by John V. Brogden using sources at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville, Tennessee. Additional research has been done by the Webmaster, Willie L. Robinson. This information is provided with the hope that it will be helpful…
Transcribed by Judy Henley Phillips The following deeds are abstracted from the Franklin County Deed Books for the year 1840. Deed Book O (1834-40) p427 (Bill of Sale) – John G. BRAZELTON (constable) to Hayden MARCH for MARY and MOSES, two negroes sold as the property of Dyer MOORE … Whereas Bershir CRISMAN surviving partner of R.P. HARRIS & Co. recovered Judgment against one Dyer MOORE before James ROBINSON Esqr. on 14 Nov. 1839 … a negro boy named MOSES…