Tipton County, Tennessee
Counties of Tennesseeby Austin P. Foster, A.M.Assistant State Librarian and Archivist TIPTON COUNTY was erected on October 29, 1823, from the Western District and named “in memory of Capt. Jacob Tipton, who fell at St. Clair’s defeat.” By the act which created this county provision was made that the county and circuit court should meet ...
Tipton Flashback
Tipton Flashback: This old picture was brought to The Leader by Charles Coats of Covington. The picture owner believes these men were serving on a jury when they posed outside the Tipton County Courthouse. SOme of the people have been identified. Anyone with identification of the unknown people call The Leader. They are (front row, ...
Tipton Flashback Munford High School Football Team
This is part of the 1938 Munford High School football team. the team coach was Woodrow Forbess, who had a record of seven wins, one tie and one loss. They defeated Protageville, Mo.; Ripley, Millington, Bartlett, Collierville, Bolivar and Bolton. They lost to Brownsville and tied Marked Tree, Ar. The team members ...
Tiptonians Killed in Passenger Wreck
TIPTONIANS KILLED IN PASSENGER WRECK | Eighty-nine persons were killed and 79 or more injured in a passenger wreck on the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railway a few miles from Nashville at 7:15 o’clock Tuesday morning. Ambulances carried the dead and injured to the hospitals and undertaking establishments in Nashville. Several coaches were telescoped, ...
Tornadoes and Tragedies
21 Mar 1835 – Tornado – Eight were killed and many injured in one of the state’s most destructive tornadoes up to that time. It occurred in the southern part of Tipton County. 24 Apr 1908 at 3am F2 Tornado in Fayette and Tipton County – Two homes and three churches were damaged or destroyed ...
Two Bozos Do Battle
TWO BOZOS DO BATTLE | MASON, Tenn. (AP) – In one corner, it’s Bozo. In another corner… it’s another Bozo. Which should have the rights to the name? Bozo the Clown or the Mason, Tenn. restaurant, Bozo’s Barbecue, named in 1923 after its founder, Thomas Jefferson “Bozo” Williams? The Battle of the Bozos rages. “Bozo has ...
Two Children Meet Horrible Death
TWO CHILDREN MEET HORRIBLE DEATH | Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brasfield, who occupied a tenant house on the W. T. McCormick place, one and a half miles east of Solo, had their house burned Thursday evening about 6 o’clock. Two children, a boy three years old and a little girl 18 months old, were burned ...
Two Young Farmers Given Right Start
Tipton County Farmers Union Bank Two Young Farmers Given Right Start: The last of this week two boys from the Dunlap Orphanage will leave here for Knoxville to attend the short course in agriculture, which opens January 5 and lasts for six weeks. The expense of these boys is being paid by the Tipton ...
Visitors, Happenings And Gossip
Mr. Ernest Hill, of Bartlett, and Mr. Thomas Joyner and family were present at the burial of Mrs. Clara Willis Saturday. Mrs. Susie Joyner returned home Sunday, after a week’s visit in Memphis to her daughters, Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Jones. Visitors, Happenings And Gossip More Visitors Happenings And Gossip Mrs. Earl Loft, Mrs. Mary Will Blakey, Mrs. Lois ...
When the Cats are Away the Mice will Play
WHEN THE CATS ARE AWAY THE MICE WILL PLAY: Dock Body and Tom Page, two negroes of the Almyra community, last Thursday evening got into a dispute over a small sum of money that Boyd claimed Page owed him and Page, being primed up with some bootleg, brought his shotgun into play on Body ...
Wm. Harvey Cornered and Killed
Wm. Harvey Murdered at Plum Point by July White or Ches. Jackson About Craps. Sunday night last at 8 o’clock July White, William Harvey, Charles Jackson and a dozen other negroes assembled at White’s house near Plum Point, Tenn., to shoot craps. The game progressed quietly until about midnight. A dispute then arose and ...
Young Men’s Club 1920
The Young Men’s Club of this city, are making elaborate preparations for a ball to be given in the large hall in the M. A. Ray building on the north side of the square tonight. The music is to be furnished by Johnson’s jazz band of Memphis.