The index to the book “The Herrin Conspiracy” has been created and added to our Master Local History Index viewable from our Records tab. The book is a brief recount of events surrounding the infamous Herrin Massacre event of 1922 and is only 36 pages long. The index to the book
can be viewed by itself in the link below:
The index to the book “Williamson County Schools” written by Lee Booth with his daughter Betty Green Rademacher in 1989 has been added to our Master Local History index under our Records tab. The index to the book can be viewed by itself in the link below.
Williamson County Schools: From a Personal and Professional Perspective
We recently added indexing to select township tax lists for the years 1891 and 1894 in addition to two books in our library related to deeds, mortgages and chattels. The latter book covers years from the 1840’s to around 1902. The indexes have been added to our Master Misc. County Records Index but may be viewed separately in the links below.
1891 Grassy Township, T10 R1 Tax List
1891 Southern Township, T10 R2 Tax List
1894 Blairsville Township, T8 R1 Tax List
1894 Herrin Township, T8 R2 Tax List
1894 Southern Township, T10 R2 Tax List
The 1905 Historical Souvenir by J.F. Wilcox has always been one of my favorites for county history. It was put together in 1904 and published in 1905. Our historical society first reprinted it in 1979. After being out of print for a few years now it is back in a softbound version and heavily indexed for people, places, businesses, churches, schools, events, crime and more. The volume contains early history of the county and its people up to its publication and contains many biographical features of local businessmen and prominent citizens. A real must have book for local historians. Continue reading
For decades, one of our own historical society members, Helen Sutt Lind, known to us as “cemetery granny” has painstakingly created literally dozens of books that are used on a daily basis. Her books have become the foundation of research by all of us here and countless researchers and authors. Helen spent years transcribing county records at the court house and local newspapers on microfilm in addition to tromping through current and forgotten cemeteries of the county auditing gravestones. Helen was often but not always accompanied by one of our other members, Charla Murphy, who worked jointly with Helen on a number of projects.
Helen has graciously passed her trove of book master copies to the historical society so that her years of research can continue to be republished into the future. For that, we can’t thank Helen enough. A list of Helen’s books now in the possession of and sold by the historical society that were recently added are as follows and don’t include books that Helen had previously allowed us the permissions to. All are available for purchase through the museum book store. Continue reading
