{"id":160,"date":"2019-10-09T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy2\/?p=160"},"modified":"2023-07-08T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T18:45:38","slug":"books-general-history-and-biographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/books-general-history-and-biographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Books &#8211; General History and Biographies"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong><em>Memorial and biographical record &#8230; of the Cumberland region of Tennessee<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong>(Chicago: Ogle &amp; Co., 1898; reprinted by Southern Historical Press, 1980)&nbsp; Includes biographical sketches of Grundy County men, as well as many from surrounding counties.&nbsp; The reprint has an excellent every-name index.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><em>Grundy County<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;by Nicholson, James (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1982).&nbsp; Part of the Tennessee County History series, this slender volume offers an excellent general history of the county.&nbsp; You probably won&#8217;t find your ancestors listed herein, but you will find a wealth of information about the place and times they lived in.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><em>Homecoming &#8217;86 history of the Elk River valley (Pelham valley) of Grundy County, TN.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; Arlene Bean and Janelle Coats (compilers)(Manchester, Tenn.: Beaver Press, 1986).&nbsp; Local history c entering on the Pelham area.&nbsp; Includes genealogical information on many area families.&nbsp; Partially indexed by surname.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><em>Sweet days, precious memories: a brief history of the Hixson-Skymont community<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Patricia G. Lane(Knoxville: U.T. Anthropology Dept., 1984).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><em>Reminiscence: senior citizens of Tracy City<\/em><\/strong>. (Tracy City: Grundy County Historical Society, 1990). Interviews conducted by Renice Curtis for the historical society.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><em>Pioneer days, Pelham, Tennessee, Grundy County<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Henrietta Bowden Ray (1983).&nbsp; 26 pages of historical information, most of this was reprinted in the Bean-Coats book listed above.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><em>Forgotten colony<\/em><\/strong>. David E. Clayton (Swiss-American Historical Society, 1971?).&nbsp; Historical information about Gruetli, Tennessee, and its early Swiss settlers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><em>Beersheba Springs: 150 years, 1833-1983: a history and celebration.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; Margaret Brown Coppinger (Beersheba Springs Historical Society, 1983)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial and biographical record &#8230; of the Cumberland region of Tennessee&nbsp;(Chicago: Ogle &amp; Co., 1898; reprinted by Southern Historical Press, 1980)&nbsp; Includes biographical sketches of Grundy County men, as well as many from surrounding counties.&nbsp; The reprint has an excellent <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/books-general-history-and-biographies\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-about-grundy-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}