Lawrence County TNGenWeb

  The information above was copied from the Web site named Lawrence County Genealogical Society.  The site was maintained by Kathy Niedergeses, but she has retired.  We are unsure of the site’s future.  Original Lawrence County TNGenWeb Coordinator Reita Jones Burress posted shared content with the LCGS site over the course of 27 years.  Therefore, we decided to incorporate the content here.  No copyright infringement is intended by providing this information for the benefit of researchers. Source URL:  http://home.lorettotel.net/~lcarchives/afemanci.htm Emancipation…

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researched and compiled by Kathy Niedergeses Author’s introduction: I have not included the lengthy reports on money matters, petitions, condition of the farms when inspected, commissioners appointed, etc. for this internet version, but for the articles that ran for years in the Lawrence County Genealogical Society’s journal I did include a lot of this information. Original spelling, capitalization and punctuation  I have been retained as much as possible. From the wording in some instances, it was impossible to tell if…

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researched and compiled by Kathy Niedergeses Author’s introduction: I have not included the lengthy reports on money matters, petitions, condition of the farms when inspected, commissioners appointed, etc. for this internet version, but for the articles that ran for years in the Lawrence County Genealogical Society’s journal I did include a lot of this information. Original spelling, capitalization and punctuation  I have been retained as much as possible. From the wording in some instances, it was impossible to tell if…

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researched and compiled by Kathy Niedergeses Author’s introduction: I have not included the lengthy reports on money matters, petitions, condition of the farms when inspected, commissioners appointed, etc. for this internet version, but for the articles that ran for years in the Lawrence County Genealogical Society’s journal I did include a lot of this information. Original spelling, capitalization and punctuation  I have been retained as much as possible. From the wording in some instances, it was impossible to tell if…

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researched and compiled by Kathy Niedergeses Author’s introduction: I have not included the lengthy reports on money matters, petitions, condition of the farms when inspected, commissioners appointed, etc. for this internet version, but for the articles that ran for years in the Lawrence County Genealogical Society’s journal I did include a lot of this information. I will include through the early 1900s as time allows. Original spelling, capitalization and punctuation have been retained as much as possible. From the wording…

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