ANDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — A cemetery in Anderson County sits in the woods near Blacks Ferry Road. For a while, it was neglected and overgrown with plants. Then, in 2012, a local historian decided to ...
Hade Black was born into slavery in Anderson County. He lived honorably as a husband, a brother, an uncle and a son. But in death, his body would wind up discarded in a cemetery hidden in the woods ...
Volunteers raised the $100,000 the tower will cost from a variety of sources, public and private. The goal is to have the carillon tower complete by Memorial Day. (Photo: Ken Ruinard) The footing has ...
Members of the public will get their first chance Saturday to tour a once-forgotten burial site for more than 100 Anderson County slaves and the Confederate soldiers who enslaved them. Leo York — an ...
FIREWORKS EXPLOSION THAT SENT SOME RUNNING FOR COVER? HONORING THE MEMORIES OF LOVED ONES WHO SERVED IN THE U.S. MILITARY IS ONE WAY MANY PEOPLE CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY, BUT IMAGINE GOING TO THE ...
For Rebecca Anenson, Memorial Day is “the happiest day and saddest day” of the year. Anenson, 58, was at Anderson Cemetery on Monday morning celebrating the life of her father, Lester Norman Anenson, ...