Ezra Lee Harper, age 70, born March 16, 1934 in Hohenwald, TN, died April 9, 2004 at Maury Regional Hospital, Columbia, TN. The funeral will be held at: McDonald Funeral Home Inc, April 11, 2004 at 2:00 PM. The officiating clergy will be Coy Reeves, and Harvil Stockard. Burial will take place April 11, 2004 in the Downey Cemetery, Hohenwald,…
Submitted by Patsy Hinson, 17 January 2002 Retracing the history of Garrett School has been an enjoyable adventure. Bits and pieces from talks with former students and teachers, microfilm from the Lewis County Public Library and pictures so many of you shared have helped complete the project. Before Garrett another school existed. A one-room structure was located on Rone Road…
Today this association is known as The Hickman County Burial Association. Although no full date of birth is given on these assessments, it would help you to zero in on the year or even narrow down which quarter of that year that a person died. The following was transcribed by Brenda Carroll of Dyer, TN, from the original newspaper clippings….
Written by Faye Johnston Submitted by Sammye Lawson Between 1911 and 1919, Gordonsburg made history that will live in our hearts and minds forever. The phosphate mines were operating in full capacity, which made it a very heavily populated area (about 1500). At this time a small group of Christians decided Gordonsburg needed a Church of Christ. In 1911, Brother…
James W. Stockard, county court clerk of Lewis County, Tenn., was born in Maury County, Tenn., on the 11th of February, 1819, and is the son of Richard and Elizabeth Stockard, born respectively in North Carolina and Tennessee. They were married about 1812, and had born to their union six daughters and four sons: Eleanor Stockard, John J Stockard., James…
Bible Records of John Cooper and Eleanor McAdams – from the records of Paris Cooper, now the property of Mrs. Mary Nelson, Estate John Cooper, was born in 1770 in Pennsylvania. He served in the Tennessee Militia and was at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama on March 27, 1814. He died on March 4, 1841 in Maury Co.,…
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