Author: East Tennessee Historical Society
Publisher: East Tenn Historical Society
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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First Families of Tennessee is a tribute to these men and women who established the state.

Author: Edythe Johns Rucker Whitley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Kevin E. Smith
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817354654
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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During the last twenty years the authors have researched over 88 possible examples of southeastern Mississippian stone statuary, dating as far back as 1,000 years ago, and discovered along the river valleys of the interior Southeast. Independently and in conjunction, they have measured, analyzed, photographed, and traced the known history of the 42 that appear in this volume.

Author: Worth Stickley Ray
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806302898
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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Brief family histories of people who lived in Tennessee in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author: Katherine Fletcher
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507845547
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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The Proctor family comes from England in the early 1600's. This line follows the early settlers of Jamestown, Virginia and branches that lead to North Carolina and West Tennessee. Learn about John Proctor who lived in Jamestown, VA and his wife who fought off the indians by herself. There is the story of another John Proctor who was the first male accused of witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials. He was hung in 1692. There are many stories, documents and photos about the life of the Proctor family.

Author: John Baker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416570330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook—two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation, the fruit of more than thirty years of archival and field research and DNA testing spanning 250 years. A descendant of Wessyngton slaves, Baker has written the most accessible and exciting work of African American history since Roots. He has not only written his own family's story but included the history of hundreds of slaves and their descendants now numbering in the thousands throughout the United States. More than one hundred rare photographs and portraits of African Americans who were slaves on the plantation bring this compelling American history to life. Founded in 1796 by Joseph Washington, a distant cousin of America's first president, Wessyngton Plantation covered 15,000 acres and held 274 slaves, whose labor made it the largest tobacco plantation in America. Atypically, the Washingtons sold only two slaves, so the slave families remained intact for generations. Many of their descendants still reside in the area surrounding the plantation. The Washington family owned the plantation until 1983; their family papers, housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, include birth registers from 1795 to 1860, letters, diaries, and more. Baker also conducted dozens of interviews—three of his subjects were more than one hundred years old—and discovered caches of historic photographs and paintings. A groundbreaking work of history and a deeply personal journey of discovery, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation is an uplifting story of survival and family that gives fresh insight into the institution of slavery and its ongoing legacy today.

Author: Henry E. Colton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385107482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author: Judy Christie
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593130154
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents—hiding the fact that many weren’t orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann’s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of fifteen adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and After includes moving and sometimes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. Often raised as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. Christie and Wingate tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art meeting life, many of the long-silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children’s Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results. Advance praise for Before and After “In Before and After, authors Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate tackle the true stories behind Wingate’s blockbuster Before We Were Yours, of the orphans who survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. With a journalist’s keen eye and a novelist’s elegant prose, Christie and Wingate weave together the stories that inspired Before We Were Yours with the lives that were changed as a result of reading the novel. Readers will be educated, enlightened, and enraptured by this important and flawlessly executed book.”—Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphan’s Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris

Author: Katherine Fletcher
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781468069693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Henry Trent (1624-1701), son of Henri Trent (1591-1645) and Elizbeth Harris (1591-1632), was born in England. He married Mary Alexander. He emigrated and settled in Virginia.