TENNESSEE GRAVE MARKING
CEREMONIES
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Captain Charles
Barham Chapter
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Charter member Malissa Wilson
Humphreys, Maplewood Cemetery in Paris, TN
November 9, 1991. |
Charter member Kate Elizabeth Dill
Morgan, Ridgecrest Cemetery in Jackson, TN
September 11, 1993. |
Charter Member Elizabeth Morgan
McCutchen, Ridgecrest Cemetery in Jackson,
TN June 6, 1998.
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Dorothy Stone Anderson, Vernon
Cemetery in Toone, TN August, 8, 2002. |
Past Chapter President and TN Dame
of the Year (2004) Virginia Stone Sylvester,
Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Jackson, TN
October 1, 2007.
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Chucaqua Chapter
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Organizing President Mildred Burroughs
McCallen (Mrs. Robert) at Riverside Cemetery
in Memphis, TN June 30, 1978. |
Member Blanche Rhyne Pharr (Mrs.
Walter Nelson) at Forest Hill Midtown
Cemetery, Memphis, TN October 21, 1981.
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Member and Charter Member of the
Tennessee Society, Willie Pearl Inman Fowler
(Mrs. Fredrick Thomas) at Somerville, TN
Cemetery June 23, 1986. A magnolia,
for which her home had been named, was
placed on her grave..
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Past Chapter President Hilda Keller
Burrow (Mrs. John) at historic Bethlehem
Cemetery, Henning, TN June 14, 1987.
Author of "Tennessee Our Heritage."
Served as 2nd vice President of State
Society.
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Member and Past
President Dorothy Griffin McCaslin (Mrs.
William Y.) at Memorial Park Cemetery,
Memphis, TN October 25, 1998. |
Member Julia
Frances Ballard Bruch (Mrs. Donald J.) at
Memory Hills Garden Cemetery, Memphis, TN
November 3, 2002. |
Member and past President Ann
Lillian Hammond McDonald (Mrs. Hugh M.) at
St. John’s Episcopal Church Cemetery,
Memphis, TN September 4, 2004. |
Member and past President Kittie Susan Kee
Noyes (Mrs. Ralph L.) at Maplewood Cemetery
in Ripley, TN November 13, 2005.
Served as Tennessee State President
1989-1991 and was Dame of the Year.
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Clarendon
Chapter
Miss Caroline Lanier at College Grove
Cemetery November 10, 1974.
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Prudhomme Fort
Chapter
Organizing Tennessee State President Maud
Calloway Hays at Forest Hill Cemetery in
Chattanooga, TN April 24, 2004. Mrs. Hays'
son, Don C. Hays, accepted the marker.
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TENNESSEE
STATE SOCIETY MARKING OF HISTORIC SITES
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Prudhomme Fort Chapter |
Chickasaw
Heritage Park (formerly Desoto Park
and originally Fort Pickering) in Memphis,
TN August 20, 1964. Inscription on marker:
“In this section of the Clarendon Grant, on
the Chucaqua portion of the Mississippi
River, LaSalle, the French Explorer, Built
Fort Prudhomme in 1682.” Early in 1682
LaSalle, carrying a commission from Louis
XIV, King of France, and his party navigated
the Mississippi River, stopping at the first
Chickasaw Bluff where they built a fort
called Prudhomme, in honor of the
expedition’s armorer, “the first white man’s
lodgings in the limits of the present state
of Tennessee.”
Moved to original Fort Prudhomme site
March 25, 2017 (second picture). In
2009, while trying to locate the marker,
John Madison members Benita Brown and her
daughter Elizabeth Brown Watts discovered
the stone lying facedown in the dirt.
Through efforts of then State Chairman of
Marking and Preservation of Historic Sites,
Phyllis Little, also a chapter member, the
marker was replaced and secured in a footing
in 2010 by Memphis Park Services, who said
they had always wondered what thelarge stone
was, as no inscription was visible. In
2016 the Tennessee State Society was
approached regarding the possibility of
relocating the marker to the actual original
site of Fort Prudhomme, which it, in fact,
commemorates. Following approval by the
State Society, the marker was moved to its
new site in Tipton County, Tennessee on the
second Chickasaw Bluff near present day
Randolph, where, in 1682, Robert Cavelier
Sieur de La Salle, while exploring the
Mississippi River, stopped on the Second
Chickasaw Bluff and built Fort Prudhomme.
That fort became his supply depot for his
trip to the Gulf of Mexico where he claimed
the Mississippi Valley for the King of
France.
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State President Dr. Martha W.
Bradley dedicated four markers December
21, 2002
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Sycamoare
Shoals State Park in
Elizabethton, Carter County, TN
December 21, 2002. Inscription on
Marker “Here at Sycamore Schoals began
the struggle to take and claim
American’s First Frontier from the
Cherokee and then to secure it from
the hands of the British. The
Overmountain Men mustered here in 1780
before marching to King’s Mountain
where they defeated the British.
This victory helped to turn the
tide of the American Revolution.”
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Capitol of the State of
Franklin. Big Spring (Greenville) in
Green Co. TN December 21, 2002.
Inscription on Marker:
“The State of
Franklin Capitol Building 1785-1788 At Big
Springs, TN Original cabin completed
1785 taken to Nashville 1846 for
Quinquagenary Celebration this replica
from the same period placed on original
site for 1996 bicentennial John Sevier –
First and only Governor of State of
Franklin”
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Chester Inn, Jonesborough, TN December 21,
2002. Inscription on Marker:
Chester Inn built in
1797 by William Chester in Jonesborough,
TN, state’s first capitol city
headquarters of National Story Telling
Foundation in 1997 Office of International
Storytelling Center 1999”
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Rocky Mount Living Museum,
Sullivan Co. TN December 21, 2002.
Inscription on Marker:
“Rocky Mount home
Built by William Cobb in 1772 served as
the territorial capitol of the southwest
territory 1790-1792 President George
Washington appointed William Blount to
serve as Governor of the new territory
until 1792 Rocky Mount Living History
Museum established in 1962 interprets
region’s history and diverse cultural
heritage”
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Bradley’s Creek Baptist Church. Rutherford County, TN
September 4, 2003. Mrs. Etta Lester, a
descendant of Joshua Lester unveiled the
marker and Ronald Martin, elder of the
church accepted the marker.
Inscription on Marker:
“Bradley’s Creek Baptist Church
1833; 1800-1817 Rev. Moore Stephenson
preached to a group of pioneers.
He died 1818 and work was turned
over to Rev. Joshua Lester, 1819 Church
was constituted with the help of elders,
Joshua Lester, Gideon Rucker, John
Warren and David Jordon.”
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Captain Charles
Barham Chapter
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Clement Log Cabin.
Henry Co. TN June 9, 1984.
The cabin, built by Mr. Van Cleve in the
Clifty Community in 1823, was later the
home of his daughter Sarah and her
husband William Clement. Charter
of Captain Charles Barham Chapter signed
in this cabin on May 31, 1980.
Marker inscription: “Clement
Log Cabin oldest log cabin still
standing in Henry County built in 1823”
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Corum Home.
Paris TN June 9, 1984. Dr. Corum,
who purchased the home in 1897, was one
of the early physicians in Henry County.
Inscription on Marker:
“Corum Home Oldest Home still
standing in original city of Paris built
in 1838.”
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St. Luke's Episcopal
Church in
Jackson, TN September 13, 1986. Church
was organized in 1832 and a small frame
church was built in 1844 on the present
lot. In 1853, the building, pews and
chancel were finished and consecrated.
The church’s Altar Cross and Alms Basin
were a gift in 1867 by the Duchess of
Trek of England. Inscription on Marker:
“St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Organized July 23rd
1832 One of oldest Episcopal Churches in
West Tennessee”
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Porter-Hagler Home
in Henry County, TN June 9, 1984.
John Leland Hagler built home in
1819. His daughter Evalina married
Nathaniel Porter, and the house remained
in the Porter family until 1995. Home is
on the National Historic Register.
Inscription on Marker:
“Porter-Hagler Home Oldest brick
home in West Tennessee Brick made by
slave labor 1819”
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The Porter House
in Paris, TN, October 28, 1988.
House designed and built by Thomas
Wall Crawford in 1848, using slave labor
and bricks made on site. House
purchased by John and Marietta Dunlap
whose daughter Susannah married James
Davis Porter. House remained in
Porter family until 1985.
Inscription on Marker: “Home of
James D. Porter Born Dec. 17, 1828 –
Died May 18, 1912 Governor of Tennessee
1875-1879 Member of Constitutional
Convention 1870 Member of Tennessee
General Assembly 1859 Assistant
Secretary of State 1885 U.S Minister to
Chile 1892.”
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Paris-Henry Co.
Heritage Center in Paris, TN
September 14, 1996. This
magnificent building, built in 1914, was
the home of Col. O. C. Barton and his
wife Tillie Cavitt who imported a
stonecutter from Italy to do the
elaborate stonework and an artist from
St. Louis to paint the frescoes. The
interior has its original mahogany and
walnut woodwork, mantles, marble entry
floors and stained glass windows. The
house was sold to Henry County in 1942,
and in 1988 Henry County gave it to the
Paris-Henry County Heritage Center to be
used as a teaching museum for local
history. Inscription on Marker:
“Paris-Henry County Heritage
Center Home of O.C. Barton Built 1914
Museum for Cultural and Historical
Activities to Enhance the Present and
Future.”
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Bemis United
Methodist Church in Bemis, TN
November 22, 1998. J. M.
Bemis, founder of Bemis Cotton Mill, built
the church in 1908. All material for this
church was shipped from Boston, MA, and
the church was constructed without any
nails. The historical plaque was dedicated
to the memory of Rev. & Mrs. William
O. Stone. Rev. Stone served this
church 1920-1930. Inscription on
Marker: “Bemis United Methodist
Church Built by J.M. Bemis, Boston, MA
Founder of the Bemis Cotton Mill Design –
Old English Architecture Built of
materials shipped from Boston Dedicated as
a Union Church April 19, 1908 J. B Young,
First Manager of Bemis Mill Served as
first Sunday School Superintendent Deeded
and Rededicated in 1949 to the Memphis
Annual Conference of the Former Methodist
Church serving the community in Christian
Outreach for Generations to come.”
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Paris City
Cemetery Fence Posts,
June 5,1999. The iron posts used
at the Paris City Cemetery were
originally on the John Wesley Crockett
Home in Paris. John Wesley
Crockett was the eldest son of David
Crockett. John Wesley Crockett and
his wife Martha Hamilton are buried in
the cemetery. Mr. W.T. Porter later
owned the home, and Helenar Kane
Currier, a descendant of the Porter
family, donated the posts.
Inscription on Marker: “Iron
Posts from Original site of John Wesley
Crockett Home later home of W. T.
Porter”
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Paris City
Cemetery,
Ruff Street, Paris, TN June 5, 1999.
The cemetery is on land donated by
A.W. Hicks in 1840 and James D. Porter
in 1869. In 1894 the wrought iron
fence around the old house was moved to
the Ruff Street side of the cemetery.
The Chapter petitioned the city in 1998
to approve restructuring and repairing
the iron fence, straightening leaning
monuments, placing a sign at the
entrance and generally improving the
cemetery where many members of pioneer
families and leaders of Henry County are
buried. Inscription on Marker:
“Paris City Cemetery Wrought Iron
Section removed from the original Court
House in 1894 and installed on the Ruff
Street side North, East, and South sides
installed in 1972 Wrought Iron Section
completed 1999 Funded by Paris City
Cemetery Association”
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Sunnyside School, Sunnyside
Community, Henry County, TN October 23.
2004. Present school built in early 1900’s
when Henry County required a schoolhouse
had to be within 1.5 miles of every
student. School closed in 1942 and
was turned over to the Sunnyside Community
Club, which made many changes. Dale
Bell bought the property and restored it
to its original form. Inscription on
Marker: “Sunnyside School House – built in
early 1900’s Only restored one-room
schoolhouse in Henry County Renovated by
Dale and Connie Bell 2004.” |
Peter J. Swink Home, located 8.5
miles south of Jackson, TN on Hwy. 18,
September 12, 1998. This home was an
Inn as well as the first stagecoach stop
between Memphis and Nashville. The
first windmill in Madison County was also
on this property (1838). Peter Swink was
an ancestor of Virginia Stone Sylvester,
chapter member. Inscription on
Marker: Stagehouse First Stagecoach
stop in West Tennessee Built 1848.” |
Robert E. Lee
School,
Paris, TN October 22, 2006.
Current building housed Paris’
first public school, the City High
School, on the same site as the Paris
Male Academy begun in 1825. Served
as the Robert E. Lee Elementary School
from 1906 – 1975. Restoration
began in 2001 when an Ad Hoc Lee School
Committee was organized. The Lee
School Academy for the Arts was
established in 2004 to serve students of
all ages. Inscription on Marker:
“This historic site was dedicated to
Education in 1825 by the founding
citizens of Paris and Henry County. It
was the Paris Male Academy, a private
school, until 1881, when public
education began as the Paris City
School. Around 1906 the building was
named for General Robert E. Lee.
Elementary classes were held here
until 1975. The building is now
the home for the Academy of Arts,
Providing Education in the Cultural
Arts, serving persons of all ages.”
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S.J. Routon Home,
Paris, TN May 17, 2008. Home of
State Senator S.J. Routon, a respected
member of a pioneer family of Henry County
and his wife "Miss Pearl" Sanders Routon.
Senator Routon was instrumental in
getting pensions for Confederate veterans
after the Civil War. The home was
built in 1915, a Victorian floor plan with
3 stories. "Miss Pearl" was a very
talented artist, musician, politician, and
civic and social leader. Her "Pearl
Flower Gardens" displayed many hundreds of
varieties of iris that she developed.
She was instrumental in having the
purple iris named as the Tennessee State
flower. During World War I she had the
only greenhouse between Nashville and
Memphis. The furnishings of the home, now
owned by granddaughter, Stephanie Routon
Tayloe, still display the Victorian
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First Presbyterian
Church,
Paris,TN November 15, 2008. The church
began as a Southern Presbyterian church
organized in the 1820s by nine men and one
woman who each donated $100. A house
of worship and a manse was built on N.
Market Street. The Cumberland Presbyterian
Church was organized in 1857 at this
location with most of the Southern
congregation remaining. The Paris Masonic
Lodge deeded their building on Poplar
Street in 1866 to the church Elder for
$1,000. In December 1910 the church
sold the building back to the Masons and
purchased the land where the church
currently is located, the corner of Market
and Blythe Streets. From 1913-1917 the
congregation met in the Circuit Court room
of the Courthouse and stored their pulpit
furniture in the courthouse. (This
furniture is still used in the present
church) In 1916 the cornerstone was
laid and the first service held in the
building in 1917. The treasured stained
glass windows are among the most beautiful
to be found in any church in this area.
Church members donated each window in
memory of loved ones. |
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Henry
County, TN Courthouse, Paris,
TN July 21, 2012. Marker
inscription reads: Built in
1896. West Tennessee's oldest
working courthouse. Court - First
held in Peter Wall's home in 1821.
A log courthouse built in Clifty
1823. Two story brick courthouse
erected on this land in 1825 and
replaced in 1852. the county's
first murder led to the landmark "State vs.
Grainger" case (1830) that set
a precedent for self defence as the
basis for appeal. During the Civil
War, Confederate military units were
organized here in 1860 and also
1861. Union forces occupid the
courthouse in 1862. Troops were
sent from here in WWI and WWII.
Silver dollars donated by citizens are
melted in the bell in the tower.
In war and peace this courthouse is the
center of the community.
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Brandon-Sykes
Showboat House, W. D. Sykes
Memorial Museum, Dover, TN September 27,
2014. House built in 1888 by
Nathan G. Brandon. W. D. Sykes
became the 4th owner in 1919. He
was a successful business man during the
Depression years. A staunch
Democrat who entertained Governor Austin
Peay, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull and U.S. Representative Joseph
Burns during the rebuilding of Fort
Donelson National Park in the
1930's. He was a dedicatd
humanitarian who donated the lumber to
build the first high school in Dover in
1919. The home was donated to the
Stewart County Historical Society by W.
D. Sykes' daughter, Rebecca Sykes
Wilford in 1998. The balconies
represent the river showboats. The
museum houses artifacts of Stewart
County and the Sykes family.
Historical events continue to be hosted
here.
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Mandle
Harding House, Paris, TN
October 10, 2015. Marker
inscription reads Built by Barton
Lasater in 1920. Purchased 1923 by
Sidney Mandle, owner of
Kentucky/Tennessee Clay Company.
Bricks made in Puryear from Henry County
clay. Remodeled and expanded in
1933 to a colonial design with Georgian
Revival influence including a third
floor ballroom, five bedrooms and a
four-car garave. Cherry and walnut
woodwork by master craftsman Clem
Krider. Michigan slate floor and
fireplace in the den. Dining room
mural painted in 1934 from early 1800's
French wallpaper design. Servant
call buttons throughout the house.
During WWII, temporary residence of
General John Maynard, Commander of Camp
Tyson Barrage Balloon Training
Base. Purchased in 1998 by Ray and
Noragene Harding.
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Lewis-Lyle
House, Indian Mound, TN May 14,
2016. Marker inscription reads The
home of Major Thomas W. Lewis , a
Confederate veteran of the Fifth
Tennessee Volunteer Regiment. He
made the first plea for pensions for
Tennessee Confederate veterans.
The original home was built in the early
1800's and was burned in 1890 by a man
who was agry at Major Lewis. It
was rebuilt in the Greek Revival Style
on its original foundation with bricks
made on the property. the
architecture was fashioned after a
mansion in Charleston, SC. |
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Chucaqua Chapter
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Rembert Place, Millington,
TN November 5, 2000. Farming began
on Seven Hills Plantation, later known as
the Rembert Place, in 1821 by the
ancestors of the current owners. The
current home was built in 1844. This is
the oldest continuously farmed homestead
in Shelby County. St. Anne's
Episcopal Church had its beginnings on the
grounds of the plantation in the early
1800s. |
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Sigler Cemetery,
located on Ward Road in the Shelby
Forest area of Shelby Co, TN November
14, 2004. William and Nancie
Sigler gave land for the Independence
Methodist Church in 1855, and his son
gave the land for the church cemetery.
Inscription on Marker: “Sigler
Cemetery Donated by Wm and Nancie Sigler
Oldest grave Martha M.C. Sigler
1835-1859”
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Clarendon Chapter
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Sneed Acres, Brentwood
area of Williamson County TN September 25,
1982. James Sneed and his wife
received a land grand from NC for 640
acres in 1798. Plantation home is an
excellent example of a step-backed chimney
construction. Inscription on Marker:
““Sneed Acres. Sneed Acres was
established as a plantation in 1798 by
James Sneed (1764-1833) and wife, Bethenia
Harden Perkins Sneed (1770-1812). They
came to this area from Halifax County,
Virginia. Three original buildings
remain on this site with a portion of old
log home being incorporated into present
home. Tree sons built homes nearby.
Windy Hill ca 1825 by Constantine;
Brentvale ca 1830 by William Temple, and
Foxview ca 1835 by Alexander Ewing.
Sneed family members are buried in
cemetery just south of here. Dr.
William J Sneed, grandson of James was one
of the founders of Mcharry Medical
College.” |
Andrew Crockett
Cemetery, Williamson
Co. TN September 16, 1987. Marker was
placed on the old stonewall surrounding
the cemetery. Andrew Crockett and
his wife Sarah “Sally” Elliott Crockett
came to TN in the early 1800s from VA to
settle on the Little Harpeth River on 640
acres received as a Revolutionary War land
grant. His home, Forge Seat, located
across Crockett road from the cemetery,
was the site of rifle production for the
War of 1812. Inscription on Marker:
“Andrew Crockett 1745 – 1821
Revolutionary War Land Grant Crockett’s
Home “Forge Seat” across road.” |
Oak Hall,
Wilson Pike in Williamson County.
November 19, 1988. James Hazard Wilson
II built the house in 1845 for his
oldest son Samuel. When James married
Emiline Wilson in 1825, Sam Houston
served as his best man. The home
is made of bricks made on the plantation
and poplar wood grown there. Inside the
entrance hall there is a free standing
spiral staircase leading to the third
floor ballroom. Oak Hall is so named for
a grove of white oaks still standing
today. The home is listed on the
National Registrar of Historic Places.
Inscription on Marker: “Oak Hall built
in 1845 in a grove of ancient oaks, by
James Hazard Wilson II, the plantation
owner with the “Midas Touch”, for his
first son, Samuel. During the Civil War,
when soldiers were in the area, the
family’s thoroughbred horses were
blindfolded and led up the spiral
staircase to the grand ballroom of the
third floor. The memories of a
Civil War, death, weather and abundance
of mighty oak trees, tie Oak Hall and
the Wilson family to the bonds of
American History.”
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Andrew Scott Home,
Culleoka, TN November 6, 1997. In 1817
Scott purchased 60 acres of land for
$500 as a building site for this house.
The house was built between 1818-1821.
The structural walls are three bricks
thick. The palladium style house
consists of a two-story center section
with single story wings on each side.
Andrew Scott lived in the house until
his death in 1869. He and his wife Mary
Doaks Matthew had fourteen children,
eleven boys and three girls. The
house fell into disrepair and was sold
at auction in 1978. The current owners
renovated the house and it is now listed
on the National and Tennessee Register
of Historic Places and is pictured in
“Architecture of the Old South: Kentucky
and Tennessee”. James Scott, a
great, great grandson of Andrew Scott,
gave the history of the Scott family and
home at the marker dedication.
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Hugh M. McAdoo House.
113 N. Church Street, Waverly, TN.
September 19, 1998. Home,
built c 1878, is a distinctive example
of late Victorian-Italian Villa style.
Hugh M. McAdoo, the original owner,
practiced law in Waverly, and served as
a State Representative and Senator.
House is on the National Register
of Historic Places. Inscription on
Marker: “McAdoo House Built 1878
by Hugh M. McAdoo”.
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Humphreys County
Museum,
331 E. Main Street, Waverly, TN
September 19, 1998. The museum was
originally the Butterfield House, built
in 1922 by Archibald D. Butterfield and
his wife Lyda. Museum contains
many artifacts from the history of
Humphreys County. Inscription on
Marker: “Humphreys County Museum
Promoted by Weems Foundation for
Education”
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Nolan House,
375 Highway 13 North, Waverly, TN
September 19, 1998. The original
owner, James Nicholas Nolan, was
Comptroller of the State of Tennessee in
1881. House had first indoor
bathroom in Waverly. Inscription on
Marker: “Nolan House built 1870 by
Lt. James N. Nolan First Artillery
Battery Fort Hill”
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William Enochs Grist
Mill, 3072 Little
Blue Creek, McEwen, TN September 19, 1998.
William Enochs moved to Liberty
Community near McEwen in 1911 and built a
dam across the Little Blue Creek to
provide electricity. In 1934 he built a
log mill house using a 120-year-old
gristmill from Pennsylvania passed down by
the Shawl family to the Enochs family.
Mill is still used today to grind corn
meal. Inscription on Marker: “Enochs
Grist Mill Built in Pennsylvania 1868
Presented by J.W. Shawl” |
Pisgah United
Methodist Church,
Plant Community, New Johnsonville, TN
December 13, 1998. Church was
founded in 1895, dedicated September 23,
1897 and originally named Pisgah
Methodist Episcopal Church South -
Dickson District. Inscription on
Marker: “Pisgah United Methodist Church
Established 1895 Plant Community
Humphreys County TN”
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Warren-Cooley-Poyner
House 4576 Old State
Rd, New Johnsonville, TN December 13,
1998. Land purchased by Dr. and Mrs. J.T.
Cooley in late 1800s. Their daughter
Eudora Jane Cooley married Mortimer Knox
Poyner who built the original house with
Milas T. Warren in 1880 and added several
rooms to the house after their children
were born. Construction remains the
same today except for closing in the
dogtrot between the kitchen and bedroom.
Inscription on Marker:
“Warren-Cooley-Poyner House Built 1880 yy
Milas T. Warren and M. K. Poyner” |
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Jerusalem Cumberland
Presbyterian Church -
7192 Mona Road, Murfreesboro,
TN November 22, 2008. The
church was organized in 1840 on the
present site. The second building
was built in 1867 and the present
building in 1906.
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Colonel George Eskridge Chapter
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Ivandale,
Martin TN Mary 20, 1987. Dr.
Charles M. Sebastian built this Queen
Ann style home in 1894 and named it
“Ivandale” in honor of his son. It
was the second home on this site.
Dr. Sebastian and his family lived
in the previous home during the Yellow
Fever Epidemic of 1878. He was one
of the first to attribute this disease
to the mosquito, which was later
verified by Dr. Walter Reed. Inscription
on Marker: “Ivandale 1894 home of
Dr. C. M. Sebastian who evolved the
theory that Yellow Fever was carried by
an insect.”
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John Madison Chapter
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Memorial Hall, First
Presbyterian Church, Jackson, TN
April 29, 2006. Building situated on
site of Willow Banks, home of Colonel
William H. Stephens and built in 1824 for
William Epsy on a land grant of 640 acres.
Col. Stephens was a clerk of the
Supreme Court of
Tennessee 1840-1857 and led the 6th TN Infantry at
the Battle of Shiloh. Clarence
Pigford acquired the property in 1918 and
built a new home incorporating some of the
earlier buildings. Home now serves
as church offices and a reception hall.
Inscription on Marker: “On this site
stood “Willow Banks” the old home of
William H. Stephens, prominent attorney, banker
and Colonel of the 6th Tennessee
Infantry, CSA. A new home on this
site, Chevy Chase, was built in 1918 by
Clarence Pigford and donated to the First
Presbyterian Church in 1951.” |
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Reid House,
Denmark, TN October 25. 2008. The
historic home, built in 1852 in the
Greek Revival style, is a white
clapboard house featuring a full-height,
four-columned entry porch and a central
doorway, flanked by a window on either
side. The interior of the house
features a central hallway running from
the front to back door, from which open
six rooms, three on either side of the
hall. The house was built using
slave labor by James William Reid for
his wife Nancy Temperance Turner Reid
and their nine children. The Reids
were from a prosperous North Carolina
family that established a cotton
plantation on a 2000-acre tract of land.
The house remained the home of the Reid
family for over one hundred years, and
is the ancestral home of John Madison
Chapter Organizing President, Jo Ann
Birmingham. It is now the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Hardee.
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Spragins-Williamson
House, Jackson, TN June 18,
2011. The Spragins-Williamson
House, built in 1939, was designed by
world renowned architect, A. L. Aydelott
of Memphis, TN. Though Al
Aydelott, was noted for his modern
architecture, the Spragins-Williamson
house is a Federal style mansion.
The house was originally sited on a
large tract of land, which, at that
time, was a considerable distance from
downtown Jackson. The home was
built by prominent Jacksonians, Mr. and
Mrs. Hearn Spragins. it was later
the home of their son's family, Mr. and
Mrs. Sid Spragins. Both of the
afore-mentioned men were prominent
attorneys, and community leaders.
The property, which has
been the home of Dr. and Mrs. Felix Earl
Williamson III and their three children
since 1992, has always been lovingly
cared for. The current owners have
had additions made to the house within
the last fifteen years that enhance its
original design and are in keeping with
its architectural style.
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Demark
Presbyterian Church and Cemetery,
Denmark, TN September 12, 2015.
Serving a congregation that dated to
1820, the two-story church that stands
today was built with slave labor that
hand-hewed the lumber and fashioned the
nails on site. After roughly five
years of construciton, the present
structure was completed in 1854, and
originally housed Masonic Lodge #154 on
the second floor. Many of the
Mason's signatures and dates are still
visible on the lodge's wall and
door. Though most of the earliest
records were lost in the Civil War, the
church has a rich history that even
includes a story of Confederate soldiers
escaping approaching Union troops by
hiding under ladies hoop skirts during a
Church service. The upper floor
also housed captured Union soldiers,
some of whose names can still be seen
on baseboards.
In 2008 the big Black Creek
Historical Association, headed by Bill
King, undertook the restoration of the
Church which was by then in serious
structural decline. With funds
from a TDOT grant, a small National
Trust grant, other contributions, and
much volunteer work, the restoration was
completed recently. Though the
church has not had an active
congregation since around 1990, it is
the site of occasional church services,
community activites, and weddings.
It is on the National Register of
Historic Sites.
The nearby cemetery had its
first burial in 1824, a twelve year old
boy named John Wharton. It is
still used, and many descendants of
early church members continue to be
interred in its grounds.
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John McKnitt Chapter
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White
Plains, the Burton/Willis home
located in Cookeville, TN, June 6,
2009. This Historical Marking was
part of an entire weekend celebration of
the settling of this land by Lt. William
P. Quarles and his family. The
original home, which had its beginnings
approximately 161 years ago, had eight
rooms: four downstairs and four
upstairs. A large porch was along
the entire back of the home and the home
included a kitchen that was set off by a
connecting breezeway to the dining
room. Other dependencies included
the smoke house, milk house, well house
and slave cabins along with other
buildings necessary for a large working
farm. The Burton family inhabited
the home until the mid 1850's when the
current owner's grandfather purchased it
and added the wings and the brick.
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Prudhomme Fort Chapter
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Little Owl
Village Cemetery Audobon Acres,
Chattanooga, TN October 26, 1986.
A marker was placed on the site of the
cemetery by the chapter in conjunction
with the Audobon Society.
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Old
Brainerd Cemetery, about five
miles northeast of Chattanooga, TN June
8, 1995. A granite marker was
placed in the Old Brainerd Cemetery, the
last physical trace of the
Congregationalist (Presbyterian) mission
to the Cherokees that operated between
1818 and 1838.
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John
Brown's Ferry Tavern near
Chattanooga, TN May 7, 2000. The
log building, built by Casper Vaught in
1803, is an excellent example of
frontier architecture. John Brown,
a Cherokee, operated it as an overnight
stopping place for travelers through the
Cherokee nation, since it was located
about a mile from Brown's Ferry, the
traditional Indian crossing of the
Tennessee River on the Great Trading
Path. John Brown went west in the
Cherokee Removal of 1838, but returned
in 1840 and took up residence in the
Tavern.
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David Beck,
prominent in the founding of
Chattanooga. Marker was placed in the
Beck
Cemetery at the corner of Dorchester and
Devonshire streets in North
Chattanooga March 6, 2015. David
Beck moved from Pennsylvania to
Rhea County in the late 1700's or early
1800's and built his first home
in the Riverview area about 1822.
At that time, south of the
Tennessee River still belonged to the
Cherokees; however, white
settlers had begun to encroach on their
lands north of the river.
David Beck (1765-1841) is considered one
of the Founding Fathers of
Chattanooga. He owned all of the
area north of the Tennessee
River, specifically what is now
Riverview, in North Chattanooga and
Stuart Heights.
The Beck family
owned several thousand acres
and operated their quarry form which
came the rock for the old
Methodist Church steeple which still
stands today on the corner of
McCallie Avenue and Georgia Avenue, as
well as some of the rock used
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Jackson
Chapel Cemetery Hamilton
County, TN, September 15, 2017.
Located inside the entrance to Chester
Frost Park on Chickamauga Lake.
Earliest known burial is 1810.
Marker placed in honor of David and
Bernice Pitts Nelson. The history
of Jackson Chapel Cemetery states that
the land was owned by Cherokees for
hundreds of years. The first county seat
of Hamilton County was located on the
reservation of Cherokee Fox Taylor
(grandson of Nancy Ward), land being
confirmed to him by the Treaty of 1819;
and was later sold to Asabel Rawlings,
an early pioneer, who is buried in the
cemetery with wife, Phoebe Rawlings.
Historic crypts, stones, and arrowhead
markers reflect the early founders of
Hamilton County.
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Reverend Henry Smith Chapter
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Greenlevel,
Collierville, TN May 22, 1999. The
home was built around 1830 and purchased
in 1850 by philanthropist and statesman,
Dr. Virginium Leake. Served as a
hospital during the Civil War following
the Battle of Shiloh. Dr. Leake
was elected to the Tennessee State
Senate in 1872. The ante-bellum
two-story home has a central plan with a
portico supported by four octagonal
columns. The windows have
triangular lintels and the door have
sidelights and transoms.
Greenlevel was placed on the National
Registry of Historic Places on March 5,
1987.
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Stratton-Owen
Place, Collierville, TN October
16, 1999. This historic home is a
two-story house with a Greek
revival portico supported by two
octagonal columns with a balcony with
carved wooden railing over the entrance
built by Dr. A. S. Stratton in 1870, and
now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Owens. Inscription on
Marker: Stratton-Owen Place 1870
Dr. A. S. Stratton, Mercantile Partner,
son-in-law Turner Humphreys.
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Davies
Manor 3570 Davieshire,
Bartlett, TN, April 6, 2013.
Davies Manor, the oldest log house open
to the public in Shelby County, was
built on property granted as a Military
Warrant to Thomas Henderson of Madison
County, TN in 1821. The house,
originally a one-room log cabin, later
was enlarged by subsequent owners.
The plantation home takes its name from
William Early Davies, a Methodist
minister and flour mill operator, who
purchased the property in 1851.
The Davies descendants continued to own
the property until well into the second
half of the 20th century. It is
presently under the auspices of the
non-profit Davies Manor Association, and
is on the National Register of Historic
Places.
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Sir Hugh Bullocke Chapter
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Clay Hill
United Methodist Church
Lewisburg, TN November 4, 2001.
Near the present site, a large log
church was first built and replaced by
the present timber-framed building in
the Carpenter Vernacular Style in
1877. With the unification
of the Methodist Episcopal Church and
the Methodist Protestant Church in 1945,
the church was referred to as Mount
Pleasant Clay Hill United Methodist
church, but the present congregation was
granted permission to change the name to
Clay Hill United Methodist Church in
1997.
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Grave of J.
W. Hutton, Hutton Cemetery at
the Clay Hill United Methodist Church,
Lewisburg, TN November 4, 2001.
Jonathan W. Hutton, born August 8, 1809
in KY and died August 5, 1899 in
Marshall Co., TN, donated the land for
the Clay Hill United Methodist church on
February 16, 1877. His words upon
this gift were "For the love of God and
the Methodist Protestant church in the
annual conference of the Tennessee
District, attract a land in Marshall
County In District 7, I donate this land
to the Methodist Episcopal Church."
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Thomas Lygon Chapter
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March
29, 1995. The Thomas Lygon Chapter
was instrumental in getting the
Tennessee Historical Commission to place
a marker on The Fisk Female Academy,
originally located in Hilham, TN but
relocated near the Standing Stone Park
in Nashville, TN.
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Woman's
Club of Nashville, Nashville,
TN April 18, 1999. Originally the
home of Judge Daniel, the Women's Club
of Nashville purchased the house and
restored and upgraded the
property. Marker dedicated in 1999
to commemorate the Club's 90 years of
service and commitments to the community
and for the Club's role in preserving
and protecting this historic building.
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