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YESTERDAY'S CHESTER COUNTY

Chester County, Tennessee History

The Black Experience

• Murder of John H. Trice by his Negro Servant in 1860, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Tombstone Inscriptions, Et Cetera from the Black Cemeteries in Chester County, Tennessee, Jonathan K. T. Smith

Cemeteries

• Tombstone Inscriptions, Et Cetera from the Black Cemeteries in Chester County, Tennessee, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Chester County, Tennessee Cemeteries
• Murder of John H. Trice by his Negro Servant in 1860, Jonathan K. T. Smith
  (Hamlett Cemetery)
• Unity Church and Cemetery (three vintage photographs from W. Clay Crook)

Church

• Clarks Creek Church, An Historical Sketch, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Unity Church and Cemetery (three vintage photographs from W. Clay Crook)
• Unity Church Deed (provided by W. Clay Crook)

Community

• Masonic Friendship Lodge 229 and Masonic Jewel, Jonathan K. T. Smith (in Jack's Creek)
• Middlefork: A Forgotten Community, W. Clay Crook
  (mentions several individuals and families in the Jack's Creek area)

Family

• Bailey-Smith Album, Estelle Bailey Helms (with photographs)
• Farrow Family Tree, Charlotte Olivia Crook

History

• Hamlett-Smith Home (on National Register of Historic Places)
• Hurst!, W. Clay Crook

Maps

• Henderson County's 104 Mile Contribution to Creation of Chester County, Tennessee, Jonathan K. T. Smith (includes Civil District map)
• Map of Henderson, from 1877 Beers and Lanagan map of Madison County
• Map of Middlefork and Jacks Creek
• Map of William L. Smith Farm and John Crook Land Grants

People

• Autobiography and Reminiscences, Wiley M. Crook
  (he grew up near Jack's Creek)
• Church of Christ people of note - Henderson City Cemetery
  (includes Freed-Hardeman founders)
• Colonel John Purdy, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Goodspeed Chester County Biographical Sketches
• Hurst!, W. Clay Crook

Photographs

• Bingham Gin
• Hamlett-Smith Home (many photographs of family home and farm)
• Unity Church and Cemetery (three vintage photographs from W. Clay Crook)

Civil War

• Autobiography and Reminiscences, Wiley M. Crook
  (he grew up near Jack's Creek)
• Hurst!, W. Clay Crook
• Mortally Smitten Confederate Infantrymen of the 27th and 13th Infantry Regiments, Civil War, Jonathan K. T. Smith (Company I of the 13th was mostly men from the Mifflin area)

Stuff Found on the Web

• Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. John W. Carroll grew up in the Center Point community of Henderson County, now in Chester County, in the years immediately prior to the Civil War. Much of the narrative concerns his Civil War service and the chaotic period immediately after the close of the war. The University of North Carolina web site hosting this page features nineteenth century southern diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, many of which concern the Civil War.
• A Brief History of Chester County Tennessee, S. E. Reid (Chester Co. TNGenWeb Page)
• Tennessee World War I Veterans: Chester County, Tennessee State Library and Archives

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