ALLAN L. EWING is a son of Lyle A. and Rebecca A. (Leeper) Ewing, born, respectively, in Georgia and Tennessee, in 1808. They became the parents of nine children, eight of whom lived to be grown. The father began life a poor boy and afterward opened a store in Farmington and became a wealthy man. He was magistrate of his district sixteen years and was an old-line Whig in politics. He died in 1853 and the mother in 1878. Our…
DANIEL B. CLAYTON, farmer, of Marshall County, Tenn., is a son of William G. and Jane S. (Bachman) Clayton, and was born in the county where he now resides May 11, 1855. After attending the common school he completed his education at Lewisburg, and then began the battle of life for himself. He taught one term of school and, in 1878, went to Texas and engaged in the mercantile business. After selling agricultural implements for a short time he opened…
The Lewisburg Tribune Friday, April 1, 1921. Headline: “Heavy Toll From Thursday’s Storm.” Another death-dealing Tornado has visited Marshall County and left a heavy pall upon us. On Thursday afternoon of last week, just after last week’s paper had come from the press, the news reached The Tribune office that both lives and property had just been destroyed. … The residence of Mr. Clarence Reynolds was the worst torn of any. In this building were four people, Mr. and Mrs….
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From A Brief Narrative of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment by George B. Guild, 1913 In the latter part of September, 1863, just after the battle of Chickamauga, by order of General Bragg, General Wheeler was sent into Middle Tennessee with his cavalry corps. The Army of Tennessee was occupying the field they had so gallantly won at Chickamauga. He moved up the Cleveland Road to Red Clay, and forded the Tennessee River at or near Cottonport, some thirty miles…
THE basis of all wealth is the soil of the land. Prosperous cities, towns and huge manufactories seem to spring up and flourish as if by magic and without reference to the agricultural advantages of the country; but such growth will be but temporary unless sustained by a country possessing agricultural wealth. It may almost be reduced to a mathematical problem in which it may be said the soil and climate equal the wealth of the country. The surface of…
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Front Row: Lloyd Rankin, Jean Tyree, Alice Beatty, Gene Hastings, Gordon Hastings, James Petty, Paul Wade, Ned Cummings, Wayne Hastings On Right Ledge: unknown girl, Mary Lou Christmas, unknown boy Left Ledge: Unknown boy, Marion Bolt, Frances Beard, Ruth Davis, Clay Ledford, Ruth McCroy, Joe Tom Woods, Wynema Beard, Ruth Ledfod, Mrs Fitzgerald, Clyde Woodward, Unknown – a boy I can not identify between Jean Tyree and Alice Beatty Submitted by Frances Roberts
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