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Alexander Family Bible

Alexander Family Bible

  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/alexbible.htm Two…

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Alley Family Bible

Alley Family Bible

  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/alleybible.htm Alley Family…

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Ashmore Family Bible

Ashmore Family Bible

  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/ashbible.htm There…

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West Family Bible

West Family Bible

  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/westbible.htm West…

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Yokley Family Bible

Yokley Family Bible

  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/yokleybible.htm Yokley…

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Bell Family Bible

Bell Family Bible

  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/bellbible.htm Bell…

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James D. Vaughan Publishing Company and School of Music

James D. Vaughan Publishing Company and School of Music

Compiled and contributed by Reita Jones Burress Founder of Southern Gospel Music In 1902 James D. Vaughan moved his family to Lawrenceburg, Tn. from Giles County Co., Tn. where he was a teacher. A short while later he opened his publishing house on the Public Square in Lawrenceburg to furnish a complete gospel music service. The Vaughan Music Company published his first song book, Gospel Chimes, in 1900. Business grew steadily, and in 1909 he sold 30,000 songbooks. James D….

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Augustus Jones White

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Augustus Jones White

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Augustus J. White, M. D., is a son of George O. and Mary A. (Cole) White, who were born in Massachusetts and New York October 23, 1817, and February 27, 1820, respectively. The father came to Tennessee in 1837 and started the Sycamore Cotton Mills and built the Sycamore Powder mills. After living alternately in Massachusetts and Tennessee until 1854, he took up a permanent residence…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of George King Welch

Goodspeed’s Biography of George King Welch

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 George K. Welch, merchant, is a Tennessean, born in 1843 [see sketch of J. W. Welch for parent’s biography], and resided with his father on a farm until eighteen years of age, at which time he enlisted in the Confederate service and was in some of the hardest fought battles of the war, Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Murfreesboro being the principal ones. He served through the entire…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. John Wesley Welch, M. D.

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. John Wesley Welch, M. D.

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John W. Welch, M. D., was born in Tennessee in 1829, son of John L. and Rachel (Archer) Welch, born in South Carolina and Georgia, respectively. John L. Welch came to Tennessee with his parents in 1806. He was a farmer and lived in Lawrence County until his death in 1876. His wife died in 1873. After residing on the farm for some time John W….

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