A photograph of a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses located at 1400 Meridian Street in Nashville, Tennessee. All meeting places of Jehovah's Witness congregations are called Kingdom Halls. Often they are built by area member volunteers in a...
A photograph of True Pentecostal Witnesses Church, formerly Foster Chapel Baptist Church, located at 936 Lebanon Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The Foster Chapel congregation was organized in 1901, and their church building was constructed in...
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...
An original will of George Moore Adams, dated April 22, 1907. It appears to be a Mason will. Illustrates the first page of the document. The notation on the verso states that Adams’ will was “unprobated.” One of the witnesses was F. H....
An original will of Gloss Allen, a nuncupative oral will, “done in the sick chamber of the said Gloss Allen, on Saturday, August 25, 1900.” It was a contested will. Illustrates the first page of the document. It was put into writing by the...
An original will of Joseph W. Allen, September 30th, 1901. He was a prominent Nashville banker. The will is subscribed to by attesting witnesses N. P. Lesueur and Leslie Warner. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allen’s will was...
An original will of John Baier, dated October 7th, 1901. Subscribed to by Wm. R. Fisher and Louis Vaupel as attesting witnesses. Illustrates the first page of the document. Baier’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on...