A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), of J. W. Barnes, the last surviving CSA Veteran. James W. Barnes was with Company I, 55th (McKoin’s) Tennessee Infantry and Company I, 44th Tennessee Infantry. Barnes was born on June 16th, 1843,...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Golden Wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins. The caption reads: “Triune, Tenn., April 13 (Spl.)--Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins recently celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary with a...
A slave deed bill of sale from Williamson County, Tennessee, for the transfer of a "girl slave named Mary" for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, from Joshua Reams to William Harrison, Jr. dated Feb. 2, 1841. The verso of this document...
A slave bill of sale documenting the purchase of a "boy named Sephus aged about six years" by William Harrison, Jr., from Timothy [Terrell?] in Williamson County, Tennessee on Jan. 18, 1844. The warrant of title refers to the sum of two hundred...
A slave deed bill of sale for the acquisition of three slaves: "a woman named Betty about twenty one years of age, and her two children Louis-Randolph about four years of age, and William Henry about twelve months old." The document states that...
A slave deed bill of sale, witnessed on April 22, 1848, regarding the transfer of a slave from Robert Glass to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee. The document states that Glass sold to William Harrison, Jr. a "man called Sam...
A photograph of "women of the Brentwood Methodist
Church who prepared lunch for the group, including Mrs. Milton McArthur, Mrs. McArthur, Mrs. George S. Herbert, Mrs. Ewing Bradford, Mrs. Charles Howell, Sr., who served as chairman, Mrs. Charles...
A protection order granted to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee, by Head-Quarters District of Nashville, Provost Marshal's Office on April 25, 1864. The document cites protection granted for "farm, timber, forage, stock,...
Pictured: “Scrap weighing continues in Williamson: when trucks visited schools in Williamson County to bring in the scrap they found the principal and teachers weighing the salvage at Bethesda High School. Pictured (left to right …), with the...
Pictured: “Trucks harvest scrap at Williamson Schools: when salvage leaders and volunteer truck operators in Williamson County toured schools yesterday they found a rich harvest of scrap gathered by schools competing in the Banner salvage...
Pictured: “Trinity School adds to scrap: the scrap collection at Trinity School in Williamson County continues to grow. Students and teachers, Miss Addie Marr Williams, teacher, left, Dorothy Johnson, Joe Herbert, Anne Cunningham, Almira...
Pictured: “At Triune School … students and their teacher were throwing scrap on the heap. They were Lewis Cothran, captain; Mrs. J. H. Windrow, teacher; Lucie Marlin, Doris Ann Rowlett, captain; Mrs. G. V. Arnold and Harvey Powers, captain.”...