yesterday's tennessee

Henderson County
Tennessee County History Series

G. Tillman Stewart

From Henderson County by G. Tillman Stewart, Tennessee County History Series, Joy Bailey Dunn, Editor, Charles W. Crawford, Associate Editor, 1979, Memphis State University Press.  Thanks to G. Tillman Stewart's son George Stewart for granting permission to publish this book.

This history is respectfully dedicated to the school teachers of Henderson County - past, present, and future - whose dedication and devotion to their duties will live on in the annals of humanity.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• The First Decades of A New County
• Uneasy Tranquility: 1850-1860
• Lost Tranquility: 1861-1865
• Road to Recovery: 1866-1890
• Period of Enthusiasm: 1890-1920
• Post World War I
• World War II to Present
• Miscellaneous Pictures
• Suggested Readings
• Appendix
• About the Author