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Tate House in 1880 (Group Photo)

Tate House in 1880 (Group Photo)

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Many thanks to Scott Mitchell for sharing this 1880 photo of men in front of Tate House, located on the corner of East Main and Sparta in McMinnville.  Tate House was owned and operated by his great-great grandfather James Douglas Tate and wife Mary Jane (McGregor) Tate.   John Douglas Tate died in 1902; Mary Jane in 1911.   Soon after Mary Jane died, Charles and Martha (Tate) Mitchell sold the boarding house to the Brown family and moved to…

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ASHFORD, Irving R. (d. 1953)

ASHFORD, Irving R. (d. 1953)

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Irving Ashford’s Rites Set Today Funeral services for Irving R. Ashford, retired Mississippi planter and resident of McMinnville for several years, will be conducted this Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the chapel of High Funeral Home. Rev. C.B. Smith, pastor of First Methodist Church, will officiate and burial will be in Riverside cemetery.  Mr. Ashford, 75, died unexpectedly at Medical Clinic Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, after suffering a stroke at his home on North Spring street a short…

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