Thanks to a recently received gift from WCHS member, Nora Parker Davis, six volumes of two books bound together and written by Daisy Roberts Malone are now available. These are extremely limited edition and will likely never be reprinted. For anyone who had ancestors living in the Corinth Township area of Williamson County prior to, during and after the Civil War, these books would be invaluable.

These books are titled, “Thy People Shall be My People or Elizabeth Ann and the Roberts Clan.”

The first book contains firsthand memories of Elizabeth Ann Shepherd who was born 1825 in Sangamon County, Illinois and died April 13, 1916 in Magazine, Arkansas and details the Corinth settlement and its people in Williamson County in the early days surrounding the Civil War and her memories continue for many years, including the account of her first husbands demise when he mounted his horse to go hunt deer in 1840 and accidently shot and killed himself with his own weapon. The book also contains an early reading of Zion Cemetery and captures slices of life in Civil War times and after.

The second book is entitled, “Our Families: A Group of Family Trees of the Early Settlers of Corinth Township, Williamson County and Allied Families” and was published in 1939.

This book contains family sketches and charts of the families: Beers, Burns, Caughey, Chadwell, Caplinger, Corder, Duty, Doughty, Dillingham, DeWoody, Hearne, Holland, Johnson, Jones, Malone, McCreery, Mitchell, Moser, Moulton, Pease, Roberts, Shepherd, Stewart, Strike, Swan, Tidwell, Winchester, Worthen, Wright, Ray, Yost and more.

This is a fully indexed two volume, soft bound book set that is encased in a durable hard binder. Since there are only six for sale at the price of $50 (First Class shipping included) anyone interested should express an interest quickly by contacting me through the Contact Us tab on our website. Payment can be made through our PayPal tab or other arrangements can be made.