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THE HISTORY OF DECATUR COUNTY PAST AND PRESENT

by Lillye Younger

Table of Contents

• Dedication

• About the Author
• Hobert L. Townsend
• Preface
• Chapter I, Description of the County
• Chapter II, Origin of the County
• Chapter III, Decaturville — County Seat
• Chapter III Photographs (large file; may be too slow for modem users)
• Chapter IV, Antiquities, Natural Wonders and Trails
• Chapter IV Photographs
• Chapter V, The Development of Early Roads and Basic Occupations
• Chapter V Photographs
• Chapter VI, Religion and the People
• Chapter VI Photographs (large file; may be too slow for modem users)
• Chapter VII, Decatur County Schools
• Chapter VII Photographs (extremely large file; not for modem users)
• Chapter VIII, Medical Professions — Doctors
• Chapter VIII Photographs
• Chapter IX, Decatur County News Papers
• Chapter X, Decatur County Towns
• Chapter X Photographs (Part 1) (large file; may be too slow for modem users)
• Chapter X Photographs (Part 2) (large file; may be too slow for modem users)
• Chapter XI, Civic and Other Clubs in the County
• Chapter XI Photographs
• Chapter XII, Early Decatur County Families
• Chapter XII Photographs
• Chapter XIII, Wars
• Chapter XIII Photographs
• Chapter XIV, Family Histories
  • Taylor Alexander Family
  • Generation of Meshack Bailey
  • The Cleamon Bawcum Family
  • The Bawcum History
  • Dr. B. M. Brooks
  • Generation of Joseph Byrd
  • Isaac "Ike" Cotham History
  • William Bird Dodson
  • William Herschel and Marie Wilson Cox
  • Jonothan Duck Family
  • Family of Isaac Lewis Gibson
  • John William Columbus Gibson and Mary Ila Haywood
  • Emanuel Gibson Family
  • G. Hobert Goff
  • Sam Hays' Lineage
  • Robert (Bob) Hays Lineage
  • Henry Hendrix (Hendricks)
  • The John Lucky Houston Family of Decatur County
  • The Houston Family
  • Kennie Kimbrough Houston
  • Doctor Jennings Family History
  • Thomas Pleas Lafferty — Ethel Leona Thompson
  • History of Lancaster's
  • John F. Lipscomb
  • Abraham M. Leasure
  • The Long Family of Decatur County
  • The Luton Family in Decatur Co., Tennessee
  • John McIllwain Family
  • McMillan Family Sketch
  • McMurry Family
  • C. V. Maxwell
  • George Washington Maxwell Family History
  • Mrs. Eliza Ann Gullege Maxwell
  • W. S. Maxwell
  • Miller History
  • Nathaniel Moore
  • Moore Family
  • C. A. Palmer
  • A History of the Parsons Family
  • History of George W. Partin
  • Martha Baugus Powers History
  • Charlie W. Pratt
  • Thomas, Phillip and George Reed's Family History
  • James Floyd Rogers
  • The Shannons
  • Micajah "Cager" Scott History
  • Strawn (Straughn) Families
  • William Stout Family
  • Family of Thomas Davis Stout
  • George W. Tate
  • Joseph Bailey Taylor and Margaret (Maggie) Isabelle Middleton Family History
  • Tinker Family
  • The Tolley Famly
  • The Townsend Family
  • Mr. And Mrs. Max L. Townsend Family
  • J. P. Troutt Family
  • History of Eli Michael Vise Family
  • J. B. and Frances Jackson Welch History
  • Genealogy of James Reynolds Wyatt
  • Yarbro-Jennings History
  • The Yarbro Family
  • John Garrett and Leora Keeton Yarbro
  • Younger-Washburn-White Family