This document was prepared by the Tennessee State Library & Archives and is copied here for convenience of our site’s visitors. Items available at the Tennessee State Library & Archives in Nashville. Note that some items can be borrowed on … Continue reading →
These articles are specific to Grainger County, and many can be viewed on-line at the TGS Web site. Click here to search the articles for locations, surnames, or items of interest. 1799 petition to improve Holston River navigation, four other … Continue reading →
This table contains claims presented to the Southern Claims Commission in Washington, D. C., following the end of the Civil War for losses suffered as a result of military action or uncompensated appropriation of their property by federal troops. This … Continue reading →
Hon. John W Yoe, mayor of West Knoxville, died at his residence on Clinch Avenue at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. He health began to fail more than a year ago. He appeared as attorney for the City of Knoxville in … Continue reading →
Died near the same place [Blains X Roads,], Mr. Benj. Mitchell, a few days ago and was buried in the family burying ground near Y Z, thus passeth away two of the old land marks of East Tennessee. [This was … Continue reading →
At the residence of his son, Pascal Nance, near Blains X Roads, Grainger County, Tenn., April 11, 1895, John Nance in the eighty-second year of his age, being one of the most prominent business men in the county and at … Continue reading →
Walter M Cocke, the brilliant attorney, died of heart failure at 8:10 o’clock last night at his room at the New Schubert Hotel. The Cocke family has figured prominently in the early history of the state. His great-grandfather, William Cocke, … Continue reading →
Mr. Robert B Bogart, one of the East Tennessee road’s best engineers, met a fearful death yesterday morning at Witt’s foundry, a station on the North Carolina division, seven miles east of Morristown. Bogart was pulling with engine 214, passenger … Continue reading →
Miss Priscilla Goodlin, of Blaine’s Cross Roads, Grainger County, was killed by lightening Tuesday evening. She was standing by the window when stricken by the bolt. The other members of the family were severely stunned but were not injured. Miss … Continue reading →
Robert Davidson, was accidentally shot and killed at the Y Z postoffice, Grainger County, Tuesday last. He and a couple of friends had been hunting. Davidson was sitting on a bed at his home working with his gun, when one … Continue reading →
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