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At the 2016 Summer Board meeting we were given forms on ten plaques and
grave markers that have been placed by our chapter. We are
to check on each marker, note whether it is still in place, its
condition, and current contact information. Also Mary Whyane Miles
reported that the Union City chapter had
marked three sites and Aline Roberts has information on two plaques
placed by Isaac Dawson Chapter. Mary Ann Claxton is working on
this project and
currently has located and/or has pictures for all but one of the markers
which is
in Union City. Below is a list of the markers that have been
placed. THE COLUMNS - (G. T. Ingram Home) Built 1860. A hospital during Civil War. Note: Elizabeth Ingram was a chapter member. She passed away in 1995 at the age of 102 and her home was donated to the Foundation. Location: W. McNeal Street, Bolivar, TN. Dedicated 12 MAR 1986 FIRST FREE LIBRARY - Jackson's First Free Library. Built by grant from Andrew Carnegie. Now The Carnegie Center for Arts. Location: 305 East College Street, Jackson, TN. Dedicated 10 NOV 1990. GRAVE OF MALISSA WILSON HUMPHREYS - Malissa joined the Francis Billingsley Chapter and when the chapter disbanded transferred membership to Col. Gideon Macon Chapter. She maintained her membership until her death on 18 AUG 1990. Location: Maplewood Cemetery, Paris, TN. Dedicated 9 NOV 1991. E. W. GROVE HIGH SCHOOL - Built in 1905. First privately endowed public high school. First high school in the nation to receive agriculture teaching funds under the Federal Smith Hughes Act, and had the first Future Farmers of America Chapter. Location: 215 Grove Blvd., Paris, TN. Dedicated 10 SEP 1994. PARIS-HENRY COUNTY HERITAGE CENTER - Home of O. C. Barton built in 1914. Now a museum for cultural and historical activities to enhance the present and future. Location: 614 N. Poplar St., Paris, TN. Dedicated 14 SEP 1996. GRAVE OF ELIZABETH MORGAN MCCUTCHEN - Elizabeth joined the chapter in 1980 and remained a member until her death on October 31, 1997. Location: Ridgecrest Cemetery, Jackson, TN. Dedicated 6 JUN 1998. GRAVE OF PETER J. SWINK - Peter and wife Malinda operated the Stage Coach. Location: George W. Swink land on Tenn. Hwy. 18 at the north city limit of Medon, 12 miles south of Jacksona and just south of the intersection of Riverside Dr. and Main St. in Medon. Dedicated 12 SEP 1998. BEMIS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PARSONAGE - Built by J. M Bemis, founder of Bemis Brothers Bag Company as a home for the first manager of the mill, J. B. Young. This home was occupied by members of the Young family until 1961, when it was given to the Methodist Conference to be used as a parsonage for the Bemis United Methodist Church. Location: Corner of 5th Street and Massachusetts Ave., Bemis, TN. Dedicated 14 SEP 2002 (marker says 11 NOV 2001). ROBERT E. LEE ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS - Formerly Robert E. Lee School, it was built in 1893 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Original brick building built in 1848 burned in December 1891 when it was City High School. In 1892 a movement began to rebuild it and it reopened in September, 1893. the name change to Robert E. Lee School about 1910 and it remained a school until 1975. In 2001 the Robert E. Lee School Association took over the building and began restoration. In 2003 it became the Robert E. Lee Academy for the Arts. Location: 402 Lee St., Paris, TN. Dedicated 9 OCT 2011. HENRY COUNTY COURTHOUSE - 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 in 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 occupied the courthouse in 1862. Troops were sent from herein WWI and WWI. Silver dollars donated by citizens are melted in the bell in the tower. Location: 101 East Washington St., Paris, TN. Dedicated 21 JUL 2012. MARKERS PLACED BY UNION CITY CHAPTER (Prior to merging with our chapter) OLD CAMPGROUND CEMETERY - Established about 1833. buried here are families who founded Obion County in 1824. Located outside of Troy, Obion Co., TN. Dedicated in 1984. BETHLEHEM CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - Location: outside of Union City, Obion Co., TN on Bethelehem Rd. REELFOOT LAKE - Location: was located at Air Park Inn on Reelfoot Lake, Lake Co., TN, but Air Park Inn has since been torn down and the marker is now in storage waiting to be installed at Spicer Park in Samburg, Lake Co., TN. Dedicated 29 MAR 1985. MARKERS PLACED BY ISAAC DAWSON CHAPTER (Prior to merging with our chapter)
MT. VERNON METHODIST CHURCH
- Location: three miles west of Sharon, TN. Organized
in 1823 in the log cabin home of John Bradshaw with Reuben Edmonston,
Bradshaw's brother-in-law, and a few neighbors. Marker dedicated
March 19, 1982. (Click here for history of the church by Aline Roberts)
NEW SALEM CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - Location: Sharon, TN. Organized in 1849, the building that is standing today was built in 1893, one of the oldest landmarks in Weakley Co., TN. Marker dedicated October 28, 1989. (Click here for history of the church by Aline Roberts) |