The Tennessee Tech Library’s Special Collections and Archives contains quite a few items with relevance to Overton, Fentress, and Pickett County region researchers. In addition to personal documents including correspondence and diaries, the collection contains maps, photographs, and early land … Continue reading →
Anna Ball’s Sharp Family Web site Related Fentress County surnames include Abbott Adams Asberry Asbury Ball Blake Brooks Brown Cawood Coleman Crawford Delk Doss Geer Gibson Gillispie Goodman Grubbs Hagan Halterman Hobbs Hoover Innis Isabell Johnston Jones King Lay Lewis … Continue reading →
Robert Crockett, Who Died in Fentress County From an unidentified original source, attributed to Margaret Nolen Nichol, on the Web page entitled Lineage of David Crockett — Frontiersman, Legislator, Statesman. Robert Crockett was born 12 August 1755 in Berkley, Virginia. … Continue reading →
From History of Fentress County, by Albert R. Hogue (page 113). Click here to view the entire volume. JOHN R. HOGUE was born 1862. He is a son of Vard Hogue and Catherine (Storie) Hogue. Grandparents: Milburn Hogue and Rachel … Continue reading →
Above and Beyond: A History of the Medal of Honor from the Civil War to Viet Nam. Boston: Boston Publishing Company, 1985. Andrews, Peter. Sergeant York: Reluctant Hero. New York: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1969. Brandt, Nat. “Sergeant York.” American … Continue reading →
These are a few of the major events in the life of Sergeant Alvin C.York from the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee who became one of America’s greatest war heroes in World War I. 1887 Alvin Cullum York was born on … Continue reading →
On October 8, 1918, Corporal Alvin C. York of the 328th Infantry fought a desperate battle with a German machine gun detachment and brought into camp 132 prisoners. He was promoted to a sergeancy, awarded the D.S.C., the French Croix … Continue reading →
Alvin C. York Institute was founded by World War I hero Sergeant Alvin C. York in 1926 in order to bring educational opportunities to the boys and girls of Fentress County, Tennessee. Today [1998] the school serves 675 students in … Continue reading →
by Dave Tabler (posted 2011) Brian D. McKnight was interviewed on With Good Reason last week about his recent book, ‘Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia,’ released in April 2011. McKnight is Associate Professor of History … 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 →
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