The Threads of a Tipton County Life: Remembering Albert Lafayette Fayne (1923–2011) One of the things I enjoy most about researching Tipton County history is discovering the lives hidden behind ordinary records. A census page, a draft card, an old newspaper clipping, or a faded obituary may seem insignificant at first glance, but together they…
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Hatfield, John Henry
Life, Loss, and the Mighty Mississippi: The Story of John Henry Hatfield of Island 35 JOHN HENRY HATFIELD | For those who research the genealogy of West Tennessee, certain locations carry a unique, almost mythic weight. They evoke a time when the landscape itself dictated the terms of survival. One such place is Island 35,…
1886 Mt. Zion Church Trustees
1886 Mt. Zion Church Trustees | The story of early Munford, Tennessee, cannot be told without examining the lives of the men who quite literally held its foundation in their hands. When the administrators of the A. D. Wooten estate deeded a prime one-acre town lot to the trustees of the Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal…