If you have cemetery transcriptions and photos to share, please contact us! Click here to visit the database of Overton County listings in the Tennessee Cemeteries Database. The map below is presented in a frame. You can navigate it … Continue reading →
If you have cemetery transcriptions and photos to share, please contact us! Click here to visit the database of Pickett County listings in the Tennessee Cemeteries Database. The map below is presented in a frame. You can navigate it … Continue reading →
This excerpt from the History of Fentress County, Tennessee, published by the Fentress County Historical Society in 1987, was transcribed by Michael Allen in 2000. by Billy and Carol Jennings The building which is the home of Jennings Funeral … Continue reading →
For a variety of well-founded technological and administrative reasons, the TNGenWeb Project began converting its county and special projects sites to WordPress content-management system. The prior Fentress County site, admirably coordinated by Tami Ramsey for many years, contained a few … Continue reading →
by Dave Tabler (posted 2013) “No section of the great Civil War suffered so enduringly as that which was the boundary line between the sections, and no part of the boundary suffered more from devastations of war in the passing … Continue reading →
Moses Fisk played a pivotal role in the region’s settlement and education. Fisk established Hilham as the first town in Overton County in 1805. The first school for females in the South, Fisk Female Academy for Girls, opened in 1806 … Continue reading →
Abstracted from The Nashville Christian Advocate, 1852-1904, by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith and copyrighted to him (posted with permission) February 2, 1849 Nancy GILPIN daughter of David and Martha WILLIAMS, born Burke Co., N.C., 1775; married J. WEST, 1797; … Continue reading →
by Dr. Calvin Dickinson & Charlene McClain Jonathan Hale (1817-1896), born in Stoddard, Massachusetts (sic), studied medicine in Pennsylvania, according to family tradition. It is unknown if he actually attended a medical school, if he studied under a physician, or … Continue reading →
This TNGenWeb local site contains articles about various Winningham events and family members. This specific article provides generalized historical information about the family and its history. Photo Album Please note — photos related to Winningham family tragedies are not included … Continue reading →
Transcribed by Julia Elmore, daughter of Lillian Bilbrey, September, 2003 Located off Highway 52 in Overton County Source: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/overton/cemeteries/smith01.txt (via the Internet Archive)
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