Category · 2 postsGranddaddy's Stories

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• August 11, 2016

  Education in America (Well, Tennessee Anyway) – 100 Years Ago (May 12, 2010)

  Originally published May 12, 2010 · republished 2016

  • Posted in
  • Education
  • Family Stories
  • Granddaddy's Stories
  • History

  I wrote a couple of days ago about some changes in education over the past fifty years, but I also have one first-hand account of…

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• August 11, 2016

  Dillard L. Williams and the Confederate Flag (March 30, 2010)

  Originally published March 30, 2010 · republished 2016

  • Posted in
  • Civil War
  • Granddaddy's Stories
  • History

  Dillard L. Williams is one of my ancestors, my paternal grandfather’s great grandfather. He was born in 1821 and, according to Granddaddy, was murdered in 1864. If…

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