"My parents were born in Grainger County, Tennessee, in the first decade of the 20th Century. Their generation and mine cover the 1900’s. Although I have children, grandchildren, and a great-grandchild, Grainger County, Tennessee, will only mean something to them — as it will to many who read these words — as the land that produced their ancestors."

This quotation was on the original Grainger County TNGenWeb site in 1996. The author’s name was not recorded. If you can identify the quotation, please contact the Webmistress.