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Tag: Confederate

Mary Frances Piercy Nichols’ Diary – Section 7

Posted on June 17, 2019June 18, 2019 by ML Williams

Sunday, March 1, 1959 [continued from Section 2 – Story of Mary and Aunt Mary Cotton] At the door, I was still tickled and his face turned red and he too started laughing – he was a sweet, good Uncle Jim. He had steak, biscuit, hot coffee and other things all hot for us to…

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Elbert Royal Nichols Sr at boarding school

Mary Frances Piercy Nichols’ Diary – Section 4

Posted on June 17, 2019July 7, 2019 by ML Williams

Wednesday, January 28, 1959 Jimmy was a sweet boy and Frances would remember he visited many times with “Miss. Nichols” and Martha was visiting us at the time. As her brother Walter stated once here, when he and I were out looking at the shrubs and flowers. There would have to be a heaven, if…

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Mary Frances Piercy Nichols - She was about 19 a student in nursing school at UT in Memphis

Mary Frances Piercy Nichols’ Diary – Section 2

Posted on June 17, 2019July 7, 2019 by ML Williams

Tuesday, January 6, 1959 I want to tell you this funny thing about Aunt Mary Cotton and me (she was papa’s aunt and my great aunt). I have spent time in her home, first when Grandma, her sister, 20 years older would go there. After through the years I would visit her. She lived till…

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Williams, James Franklin (1842-1900)

Posted on May 27, 2019June 6, 2019 by ML Williams

James Franklin Williams was born in 1842 in West Tennessee. James Franklin was a son of Carney E (~1816 – ~1857) and Frances Williams (~1811-1880). His father, Carney, was born in Jamesville, North Carolina, the son of Kinney and Frances Williams. His mother, Martha, was born in Virginia to Captain Joseph Edward (~1785-1842) and Nancy…

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Modern Enoch Arden - The Pathetic Story of a Tennessee Confederate Soldier

Modern Enoch Arden – Pathetic Story of a TN Confederate Soldier

Posted on May 23, 2019May 24, 2019 by ML Williams

Modern Enoch Arden – The Pathetic Story of a Tennessee Confederate Soldier PERFIDITY OF HIS OWN BROTHER Jeff Maxwell Bore His Sorrow in Silence for Nearly Forty Years – Lost His Wife and Money While Fighting for His Country’s Cause – Death at Last Paves the Way for Talk. Covington, Tenn., July 12. – E….

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Hilliard, Meckie

Posted on May 21, 2019June 23, 2019 by ML Williams

Mrs. Meckie Hilliard died at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Virginia Poindexter, in the vicinity of Clopton, at 6 o’clock Sunday night, and was buried at Clopton graveyard at 3 o’clock Monday, the funeral service being conducted by Rev. R. A. Wood, pastor of the church there. Mrs. Hilliard was a daughter of the…

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Captain Sidney Sherrill

Captain Sidney Sherrill

Posted on May 20, 2019June 6, 2019 by ML Williams

The above image is that of a quarter-plate tintype, probably taken the spring of 1862, of Sidney E. Sherrill. During this time Sherrill helped organize a company of confederate volunteers in Tipton County. On March 1, 1862, Company K, 51st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, was officially formed and Sherrill was elected the company captain. Captain Sherrill…

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Daniel, Ebenezer B – Obituary

Posted on May 18, 2019June 6, 2019 by ML Williams

Ebenezer B. Daniel, better known here as Hurricane Horse, died Thursday night, July 29th at his home near Mt. Lebanon, after several weeks illness of dropsy. He was in his 67th year, and was born in East Tennessee. He moved to Tipton County in 1857, joined Capt. Turner’s company of Confederate infantry in 1861, was…

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Covington June 17 1898 Local News Happenings

Local News Happenings June 17, 1898 (cont.)

Posted on April 28, 2019April 28, 2019 by ML Williams

Mr. Henry Bradley, while returning(?) from Covington to his home at Bride Tuesday evening, had a very painful accident to befall him. He had a spring seat on a meat box in the wagon and the seat slipped and fell with him and one of his arms was dislocated. The little child of Mr. H….

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Baskin Family Heritage

The Tipton County Branch of the Baskin Family II

Posted on April 18, 2019June 6, 2019 by ML Williams

Newton Jasper Baskin (ca. 1876-?), the youngest child of John Henry Baskin, married Mary Wallace of Missouri in 1897. To this union was born at least one child, namely: Wallace Baskin This family lived in Covington for a few years before moving to Memphis. Little is known about this branch of the family. Malinda Jane…

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Mary Lynne Williams with Kenny Faulk at Bozos Bar-B-Q in 2018
Mary Lynne Williams with Kenny Faulk at Bozos Bar-B-Q in 2018

My name is ML Williams. I am a hiking, fossil hunting, God loving, coffee drinking, hot fries eatin' middle school math teacher! I love researching my family history and, since my family is from Tipton County, I love researching the people and areas of Tipton.

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