The Marion Garden club made a $150 donation to the Williamson County Historical Society on Friday, June 2, 2023. Presenting the check from the garden club was president Debbie Lattuca to WCHS president Sam Lattuca. The local garden club plants flowers in the pots at the entrance to the museum and library as well as making a monetary donation.
The Williamson County Historical Society has just published two more cemetery audit volumes created by Helen Sutt Lind. The books are called “Those in God’s Green Acres” volume one and volume two.
Volume one contains the audits of 15 cemeteries from 4 townships. The cemeteries include: Cundiff, Dewmaine, Duncan, Boyd, Perry, Hendrickson, Strunk, Becker, White Ash, Shiloh, Dillingham Shed, Zion, Bethel, Locust Grove and Liberty Number 8.
Volume two contains the audits of 32 cemeteries from 6 townships. The cemeteries include: Hinchcliff, Russell, County Poor Farm, Stroud, Worley, Motsinger, Susan Allen, Crossroads, Krieger, Hanks, Bethlehem, Norman, Pritchett, Newton, Perry, Trout, Creal Springs, Moses Atwood, Willis Bridges, Goddard, Herring, Cocke, Drake, Ann Burns, Bolton-Trammell, Till Parks, Croslin, Simmons, Spring Hill and Ferrell.
The books are now available through the Williamson County Historical Society in softback for $25. The indexes to these books have been added to our Master Cemetery Index.
A doctoral dissertation completed in 2005 by Masatomo Ayabe entitled “The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County” has been indexed and is available for study in our library. The dissertation paints a very complete picture of the political and social environment in the county prior to the Klan’s arrival and details why the organization was able to land on such fertile ground in the county. The book primarily covers from 1923 through 1926. The index has been added to our Local History Master Index.
Do you have back issues of the Marion Living Magazine in your home? If so, the museum would like to fill out their collection. The needed back issues are listed below:
2009, May – June
2010, Jan – Feb – Apr – May – Jun – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov -Dec
2011, Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun – Jul – Aug – Sep -Oct – Nov -Dec
2012 ? We Have January
The Washington school 5th grade classes visited the museum to learn about local history and the lives of earlier people on May 3, 4, 5 & 12, 2023. The classes were attended by Washington school teachers Ms. Reynolds, Mr. Vickery, Ms. Holderfield and Ms. Shoukletevich. Each of the four touring classes had about 18 students. All of the students were presented with a small workbook to point out prominent facts about the musuem and local county history.
