VAN BUREN COUNTY

LETTERS AND PHOTOS

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GENERAL AND HISTORICAL

Burritt College photo and letter

More Burritt College including Burritt College, Carnes and Billingsley in photographs

Burritt College Bible Class of 1920-21

Burritt College Staff 1920-21

Burritt Teams

Burritt College Mountaineers Basketball 1920-21

Battle of Perryville Monument

Women of Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee

1920 Civil War Reunion

1852 Hopewell Meeting

Sparkman School 1903

Van Buren High Class of 1921

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***FAMILY ALBUMS and INDIVIDUALS***
We look forward to receiving and posting your family photos.
Bradley-Mayfield
Campen-Roberts
Cummings, William Burrell and Martha Denney
Cummings Reunion, 1908
Colley Marx Denney
Denton-Galloway Help with identification!
George-Cole
Gillentine-Campen
Groves Brothers
Hillis
Hillis Veterans
Hillis - Ward
James Hillis Family
Martin-George
Mary Bowers Mayfield
Margie Miller and her boys
Scott-Martin-Hennessee-Roberts Family
Shelby Rhinehart
Shockley
Spencer Dignitaries
Trammel-Brown
Whittenburg-Myers
John Taylor Yates
We look forward to receiving and posting your family photos.

***BURRITT COLLEGE PHOTOS AND LETTER***
return	We did enjoy our visit to historic Burritt College in Spencer. What remains is the archway, an historic marker, and an old brick building that has been renovated and is being used for offices. A small new brick structure and part of a burnt up shirt factory are also on what used to be the campus. Since my ancestor James W. Copeland was one of the founders of Burritt College, the visit was especially meaningful. I am enclosing pictures of the archway and the marker....

***BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE MONUMENT PHOTO***
return	On October 8, 1862, one of the more deadly battles of the Civil War took place in Perryville, Kentucky. Men from Van Buren County took part in the battle. Some survived. We have here a photo given by Hoyte Cook of the unveiling of a monument dedicated to the participants of the Battle of Perryville. On May 19, 1904 at the unveiling of the Battle of Perryville monument a group of four men posed for a photograph. These four men from Warren and Van Buren counties had participated in the battle in Perryville, Kentucky. There are four survivors of that battle in the picture. W.H. White was color bearer and John McConnell, J.C. Biles, H.L. Moffitt and Jasper Roberts were color guards of the sixteenth Tennessee Regiment, all of whom were wounded, Mr. Roberts mortally.

***1920 CIVIL WAR REUNION PHOTO***
return	Reunion of the 16th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Sparta, Tennessee, September 24th, 1920. This reunion photograph was taken in Sparta, White County, TN, and some of the men are from Van Buren County according to the donor, Hoyte Cook. The original Company I of the 16th was largely made up of Van Buren County boys according to a participant as mentioned below. Included in this photo is our own Carroll Henderson Clark whose biography and Civil War Diary can be found under Civil War on the main page, My Grandfather's Civil War Diary. Those identified are: 1. Captain Joseph Lafayette Quarles 2. John Mitchell 3. Wiley Steakley 4. Carroll Henderson Clark Hoyte has taken time to identify the photograph and some of the people. If you look close you will see a white number on some of people. By using your scroll bars you can view a list of names which correspond to the number.Hoyte is looking for help in identifying the people in these pictures. If you can assist him please contact him, Hoyte Cook.

***1852 HOPEWELL MEETING PHOTO***
return	Take a view of the Hopewell Meeting House on Sunday, September 26th 1852, Van Buren County, Tennessee. There are minutes of this 1852 meeting of Caney Fork Association of Old Baptist. Again, we have Hoyte Cook to thank for this picture. Hoyte has taken time to identify the photograph and some of the people. If you look close you will see a white number on some of people. He has also supplied some birth and death dates. By using your scroll bars you can view a list of names which correspond to the number. Hoyte is looking for help in identifying the people in these pictures. If you can assist please contact Hoyte Cook. Those identified are: 1. William Moore, 1802- 2. Sarah Moore Hollingsworth, ca. 1833-1903 3. Stephen Hollingsworth, ca 1831-ca 1857 4. Daniel Hollingsworth, ca 1803- 5. Bryant Sparkman, ca 1803- 6. Isaac Denton, Jr., 1806-1889 The transcribed minutes of the meeting can be seen here . Sue Montgomery-Cook maintains a Denton Family home page and has the scanned minutes from the Hopewell Meeting on her site. For further discussion of this photograph see this site . NOTE: The correct date of death for Isaac Denton is 1889, not 1884.

***Burritt College Basketball Teams***
Boys Girls return	This off site link is on temporary hold. The two photos are of Burritt College basketball teams, boys and girls. If you can identify any of the people in these photos, please e-mail the names. We will put up the names. These photos are off site and are through the courtesy of Joe Beasley, photographer and curator of the Brady-Hughes-Beasley Photographic Archives & Museum in McMinnville, Warren Co., TN.

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return	Help with the identification of the lady and gentleman in these made from about 1851 to 1865. E-mail
return	Help with the identification of the men in this photograph with Joseph Hiram Denton. E-mail

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