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.
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The Civil War in the East Web site has a short biographical sketch of Peter Turney, a native of Winchester. Click here to view the information.
Leonidas Polk was a Civil War General and an Episcopal Bishop. He founded The University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. Click here to visit the Web site dedicated to Bishop-General Polk.
The information below is no longer available at the link formerly found on the Franklin County TNGenWeb site. Because it’s been offline for more than five years, we have copied the text from the Internet Archive below for the benefit of researchers. The Internet Archive link is found at the end of the text. FRANKLIN COUNTY is bounded on the north by Coffee County, northeast by Grundy, east by Marion, south by the State of Alabama, west by Lincoln, northwest…
Previously, a site by Michael Gillaspie was linked from the Franklin County TNGenWeb pages. The site is no longer available on-line, but it can be viewed at the Internet Archive. Click here to visit. Note some links may be broken.
Previously, a site by Debi (Phares) Faris was linked from the Franklin County TNGenWeb pages. Its description states “This contains over 38,000 people. A few of the surnames you will find are: Mulford, Salter, Dollar, Belcher, Crites, Piper, Vineyard, Sawyer, Bland, Teter, Negley, Sturm, Elmore, Poling, Gainer + many more.” The site is no longer available on-line, but it can be viewed at the Internet Archive. Click here to visit. Note some links may be broken.
Previously, a site by Becky Stewart was linked from the Franklin County TNGenWeb pages. The Humphrey Baker site is no longer available on-line, but it can be viewed at the Internet Archive. Click here to visit. Note some links may be broken.
Richard Ezra (R.E.) Harris was born in Overall, Rutherford County on 1 Apr 1884 to Richard A. Harris and Indiana Marcella Read Harris, both of Rutherford County. Died 18 Jan 1974..They had six children:Richard Ezra (R.E.) Harris, Jr. — b. 26 Aug 1917 in Overall, Rutherford Co, d. 16 Jul 1995 John Thompson Harris — b. 6 Sept 1919 in Overall, Rutherford Co., d. 2007 Virginia Isabell Harris (Ramsey) — b. 2 July 1921 in Wheel, Bedford Co., d. 26…
In his first three-month tour, Jonas Hill joined Capt. Samuel Dyer’s Cavalry as a private in the North Carolina Militia. He entered the service in Surry Co., NC, probably in January or February of 1781 at the age of 18. Capt. Dyer’s Cavalry, under the command of Maj. James Shepherd, first rendezvoused on the Yadkin River and marched against the Tories. They then marched near to Hillsboro, NC to join other troops attached to the American Army at the South,…