yesterday's tennessee

PEOPLE OF ACTION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FROM THE AUTHOR
• DEDICATION
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR, by Lerah Washam
• ANNIVERSARIES
• AWARDS
• AGRICULTURE
  • Lealon Wyatt is First Countian to Enter Land Heritage Program
• BOOKS PUBLISHED
• BIRTHDAYS
• CHURCHES AND MINISTRIES
  • Churches Play Part (Union Hill Baptist Church, Henderson County)
  • Decatur County Church Lists Historical Past (New Prospect Missionary Baptist)
  • Decoration Day (Pleasant Hill United Methodist)
  • Hickory Grove Church Steeped in History (Gibson County)
  • Mt. Nebo Still Clings to Practice of Homecoming, Dinner on Ground
• EVENTS
  • Do You Remember . . . (Decoration Day)
  • Midwifery Work Came from Necessity
• DAR-UDC
• FEATURES
  • Fish Tales
  • Perry County, Tennessee
  • Post Offices and Postal Workers
  • The River
  • Scotts Hill's History Lives on Thru Fire & Storm
  • Tolley Baseball Team
• HOSPITALS, PHYSICIANS, NURSES
• JUDGES AND OFFICIALS
• PARSONS LIBRARY
• MENNONITES
• NEWSPAPERS
• PLANTS IN COUNTY
• RETIREMENT
• SCHOOLS
  • Bear Creek School Has Colorful History
  • Do You Remember "Pig-Tail School"? (Milligan School, Gibson County)
  • Educational Changes in Decatur County Since 1927
  • The First School in Parsons, Tennessee
  • History of Hickory Grove School Recalled (Gibson County)
  • "Miss Allie Mae" Retires After 46 Years as Educator
  • Mt. Tabor School
  • Sugar Tree Got Its Name from Real Sugar Trees
• SCOUTS
• SPRING AND WATER WORKS
• TRIBUTES
• VACATIONS
• WAR
  • Copter Pilot Feels Lucky
  • Mr. Tolley Recalls World War I
  • Vietnam Orphans' Plea: Give Me
  • World War I Ending Vivid in Vet's Mind
  • You Never See a Healthy Looking Vietnamese

FEATURED INDIVIDUALS

Many, many names appear in Ms. Younger's articles, far too many to list in their entirety. Each individual listed below was the focus of an article.

• Jerry C. Adkisson
• Eathel and Dorskie Austin
• Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Austin
• John Britt
• Tom Burton
• Sue Carrington
• Mike Chandler
• Charles Maxwell Collett 1
• Charles Maxwell Collett 2
• Charles Maxwell Collett 3
• Janice Collett
• Parker Collet
• James Charles Cooper
• Hazel Cottrell
• J. D. Dodd
• J. J. Douglas
• J. D. Featherston
• Lois Frizzell
• Linnie Maxwell Garner
• J. W. C. Gibson
• Lonnie Glasscock 1
• Lonnie Glasscock 2
• Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Graves
• Mr. & Mrs. Otis Graves
• Rube Haney
• Eugenia Hawkins
• Guy F. Hester
• Ralph Holland
• Stanley Holland
• Jerry House
• Kenny Houston
• Boyd Fielder Hufstedler
• David Inman
• William Mac Johnson
• Mr. & Mrs. Ray Jordan
• Kirby S. Kapp
• David Keen
• Effie King
• Bernard Lee
• Bernard Lee Family
• Edd Lee
• Lynette Lindsey
• Holland Odle Miller
• Myra Looney
• Chester Mays
• Mrs. Stanley Mays
• Everett McIllwain
• Horace K. Melton
• Earl Midgett
• Ada Moody
• Mary V. Moore 1
• Mary V. Moore 2
• Mrs. Ben Morris
• Benjamin F. Morris and Ben Morris, Jr.
• Doyle W. Neal
• Kermit E. Neal
• James Overton
• Bobby Pinkley
• Joe Potts
• Imogene Pratt
• Allie Ragsdale
• Mr. & Mrs. Jess Readey
• Harold Reeves
• L. C. Reeves
• Alice Ann Reid
• James Floyd Rogers
• Hettie L. Scott
• Harvey Smith
• Allie Mae Stevens
• Lowell Stonecipher
• John Tinker
• Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Taylor
• Joseph Bailey Taylor Family
• Billy W. Townsend
• Byron Townsend
• W. B. Townsend
• Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Wallace
• Elton Watlington
• Mrs. Robert Watkins
• Willard Watson
• Carolyn Davis Weatherford
• Lewis Welch
• Mr. & Mrs Andy West
• Lealon Wyatt
• Leo Yarbro
• Sallie Young
• Lillye Younger 1
• Lillye Younger 2