Early days in Dyer
County, TN, are recalled in this spiral bound booklet compiled
from excerpts from the rare 1887 book: History of Tennessee,
originally published by Goodspeed Publishing Co., and other sources.
The booklet is printed one-sided on 60# paper with the print enlarged
for easier reading. A vinyl sheet has been added to protect the
front cover.
Dyer County lies
east of the Mississippi River on the western border of Tennessee.
The first part of this booklet concerns the land surface, soil and
agriculture; waterways; early settlers and settlements; early public
officials; various county "firsts"; the formation of the
county; transportation by river and rail; Bridges; statistics; public
buildings; records claimed by arson; county representation in the
Civil War; a list of early merchants in Dyersburg; Organizations
and Newspapers; Small communities, including Fowlkes Station, Finley
and Ro-Ellen; Schools and churches.
The next section of the booklet
contains biographies of prominent residents, several of which
include items of local history: James Atkins, Asa Atkins, Joseph
Baker, Thomas Bateman, R.S. Beaver, J.H. Bessent, A.R. Biggs,
A.B. Bledsoe, F.M. Boling, J.M. Brackin, M.T. Brackin, J.L. Brown,
Wilson Bunnelle, J.W. Burney, R.A. Burke, Bellfield Burgie, J.M
Byrd, Stephen Chitwood, Thomas Churchman, D.C. Churchman, Eli
Cole, S.L. Cockroft, Charles Dawson, John Dickey, A. Dicksion,
Erastus Ditmore, H.P. Doyle, J.S. Eason, G.A. Fay, William Featherston,
H.F. Ferguson, A. Finley, T.J. Fitzhugh, A.P. Ford, Mrs. E.L.
Ford, H.L. Fowlkes, William Fowlkes, R.N. Fryer, H. Fuller, John
Gaulden, Doney Gauldin, G.W. Gregory, William Hall, Lewis Harrison,
Andrew Hart, W.R. Hayes, William Hendrix, Richmond Herron, John
Hicks, D.R. Holland, Josiah Huse, Joseph Jackson, William Jackson,
W.A. Jetton, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, M.O. King, T.J. King,
Rufus King, J.A. Lancaster, W.F. Landreth, J.M. Lane, David McCorkle,
Anderson McCorkle, John McCorkle, Peter McGaray, John McGinnis,
Abner McKnight, J.E. McPherson, R.G. Menzies, T. J. Miller, Zachariah
Milam, John Milam, Issac Mitchell, W.S. Moore,T.R. Moss, Tom Neal,
G.W. Parker, Samuel Parker, Daniel Parker, Benjamin Parks, Smith
Parks, H. Parks Jr., E. C. Pate, J.C. Pate, J.W. Parr, George
Pierce, J.C. Pinner, Alex Ray, Alien Rawles, George Reynolds,
T.J. Rice, H.X. Richardson, W.R. Rook, Thomas Scott, James Smith,
Jo. Smith, W.W. Sorrell, A.M. Stevens, Frank Summers, John Tarrant,
Nathaniel Tatom, William Taylor, B.L. Taylor, J.R. Todd , R.W.
Townsend, J.G. Tucker, Eben Vernon, Andrew Viar, William Walker,
W.T. Walker, M.M.Warren, Robert Ward, Richard Watson, L.C. White,
J.W. Wilson, B.M. Williams, J.F. Williamson, William Wilkerson,
William Woods, H.T. Wood, John W. Wright, J.N. Wyatt, H.V.C. Wynne,
G.W. Yeargin, J.H. York, John B. York, and Samuel Young.
The final part of the booklet
contains a brief excerpt from Counties of Tennessee by
Austin P. Foster, and excerpts from Tennessee, a Guide to the
State, including a tour of Reelfoot Lake. This book was compiled
and written by the Federal Writer's Project of the WPA in 1939.
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