The Tazewell United Methodist Church will be celebrating it's 100th Year Birthday this Year ) All past members are requested to contact - Pastor Bill Rimmer -1407 Main St, Tazewell, TN 37879 - Phone: (423) 626-2881 - Some of my memories of the Tazewell United Methodist Church

• The Man for who the County was named (use back browser to return)
• JOHN HUNT , Considered the founder of Claiborne County, and it's County Seat of Tazewell. Also the founder of Huntsville, Alabama.
• Claiborne County Chamber of Commerce (New Link!!!)
• GOODSPEED'S HISTORY OF CLAIBORNE COUNTY
Another list of Early Court Officials of Claiborne County
• Claiborne County Historical & Genealogical Society
• Topography and the formation of Boundaries for Claiborne County
• Claiborne County locations on the National Register of Historic Places
• Claiborne County Churches
  My Church very early in 20th Century.
  Cumberland Gap Baptist Association with link to the new Heritage Baptist Academy.
• More information needed on the Tazewell Methodist Episcopal Church South.
• The Old Tazewell Presbyterian Church and my brother and myself's efforts thwarted at restoring a piece of it.
• Surname Studies that I and others have added of early Claiborne County Families
• Famous Tennessee Pioneers
• Maps of interest to East Tennessee Researchers
• Links of interest to Claiborne County Researchers
• A few other GED2HTML Family Links
• Researchers that have information regarding specific surnames (Some with homepages)
• CaptiolImpact.com's Site for Claiborne County
Also links to the Political Graveyard Site for Claiborne County

• USGENWEB Claiborne County Archives (includes census, cemetery listings, tax records, etc.)
• Claiborne County Resource Page
• Local and State Newspapers and Classified Websites -

  The Tennessean.com
  Claiborne County Progress
  The Oakridger
  LafollettePress.com
  Grainger County Today
  Middlesboro Daily News
  Morristown Citizens Tribune
  Onieda Independent Herald
  The Cumberland Trading Post
  

  Choice Directory Online. Local Yellow Pages

  
  The Knoxville News-Sentinel

  Timeline: Cocke County Confidential

  
  FountainCityFocus.com
  Maynardville.com
  The Claiborne Shopper

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Community Articles and Pictures

• The Tennessee Century Farms Program was created in 1975 by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture as part of our nation’s bicentennial celebration. Click Here to visit the Century Farms in Claiborne County.
• Have you ever seen more arrogance than in 2007 shown by the Tazewell's when asserting their prominence in non-concern for the environment? To live and work in Claiborne County you must set aside any concern and swallow their ideas of healthy work environment (non-smoking), healthy tree-stand improvement and concern for clean rivers and streams. Makes it hard for someone like my wife and myself to live here.

Jubilee Project, Hancock County

• Back in 1946 and again in 1966 there were effort to combine the two Tazewell's. Could that have been a feasible solution to a lot of controversy between the Tazewell's?
• I suggest anyone that has ever had an interest in preserving the history of Tazewell read this letter written to the Claiborne County Progress on February 7, 1934 by James M. Freeman. This opinion should have been one that survived rather than one that was apparently never heeded.
• A family video of Main Street Tazewell Tennessee in 1916-1918 range. This video was filmed by my grandfather Joseph Phillips. (Windows Media Film)
• Law Books from H.Y. Hughes Law Library signed May 11, 1906
• February 1, 1915 Receipt for Wire, Poles and Transformers from Guaranty Electric, Inc., Knoxville, Tennessse to run Electricity from Tazewell Electric Light and Power between the Tazewells
• Possibly one of the early cedar chest's from a local furniture manufacturer. This chest came from Yoakum and Runions Cedar Factory It was saved from my Grandmother Mattie Payne's House in Lone Mountain, Tennessee that was burned in 1980. Elizabeth "Libby" Bunch Smiddy of LaFollete has added comments and quieries regarding the Runions Cedar Shop in Youngstown.
• Claiborne County Genealogical and Historical Society has secured the deed to the OLD JAIL, located Tazewell.
• The Scott County, Tennessee OLD JAIL with 21 acres. Owned by the Scott County Historical Society

I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree CO2= 1 part carbon and 2 parts oxygen. If you take the letters only, "co", just think about how many words begin with those two letters. There is coward, cough, corruption, corrosion, complacent, coercion and communist . Also community, correlation, company, comprehension, cohesion, companion, consensus, coherent and correction. Some good and some bad. You will see if you focus on the good spellings that your going to make the world a whole lot better place to live. Richard Branson and Al Gore, better known as Merlin the Magician and King Arthur, announced a $25 million prize for the first scientist to come up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Albert Gore wins 2007 Nobel Prize. At the Intersection of Highways 25E and 131, a new sign and speed bumps have been added. Is this Enough - Look and See

• Vardy Community Historical Society, Inc. on October 7, 2006 held a Fall Festival at Vardy Church Museum.
• Demolition of George Cosby and Son Store in New Tazewell prompts recollections and picture from decendent Emily Moore of Atlanta.
• Has anyone seen the New Tazewell Jail? - Well neither had I!! But there really was one!! Here's the proof.
• In 1964 a bus left New Tazewell bound for the 1964 New York Worlds Fair. There were several adventures along the way.
• Think of how it must have been for our parents and grandparents during World War II - Here is a 1942 War Ration Book Issued to George Edward Payne.
• 1936 Master Freemason Certificate issued to Al George Payne Eastern Star Lodge No. 180
• A 1944 Knoxville News-Sentinel article "Will The Crooks Be Prosecuted?". This involved vote tampering by the head of the State Republican Party, a Claiborne County Lawyer and involved "dog voting" and "ballot box stuffing".
• Pictures of the 1934 TVA Land Acqusition Department. Located beside Tazewell Courthouse.
• Read accounts from the Kentucky 14th Infantry of the Battle of Tazewell August 1862.
  My assessment of the first reenactment of Battle of Tazewell held first weekend of September 2006 and a totally different opinion of the reenactment held on Lincoln Memorial University September 2007.
• Remember the Claiborne County Christmas Pagents of the 1970's?
• From eHistory read Gen. George W. Morgan's account of Battle at Cumberland Gap April 11, 1862.
• The old Rose Gulf Station located on Main Street, Old Tazewell.
• THE CROCKETT IRON WORKS - For which Forge Ridge, TN was named.
Help Deborah Crockett Scott identify pictures of Crockett family from Rose Hill, Va ca 1967
• Meteorite found 10 miles from Tazewell, 1853
• Dixie Plaza Motel burns - A Tazewell landmark since the early 1960's.
• The "Frank Ausmus" home, located about 1 mile southeast of HWY 63 in Powell Valley.
• Claiborne men that rode with "Tiger Company" during the Civil War. Formed to protect the families of East Tennessee.
• Remember the The Powell River Bridge
• The Claiborne-Grainger Clinch River Bridge, Soon to be no more.
• The Highway 33 Clinch River Bridge.
• The Walker's Ford Bridge was built between Union and Claiborne counties in the late teen's or early twenty's of the 20th century but torn down when Norris Lake was formed.
• Just past the Claiborne-Grainger Clinch River Bridge you can find the Imperial Black Marble Company Quarry, Thorn Hill, Tennessee
• View the Lone Mountain Community in 1898 by Clicking Here.
  Read John Kivett's Down on the Creek from the Claiborne County Progress.
  
  
  Pictures of people Lone Mountain and Ball Creek prior to 1920.
• Help needed with history of old barn on Lone Mountain Road
• Will the Lone Mountain Post Office be closed? See what it's all about.
• Article about Lone Mountain "TWO LOG HOUSES" By Nell Quesenbery
• Another old house still standing near Lone Mountain is the Thomas Henderson House.
• Pictures from the Caney Valley and Raven Ridge Community
• Postcard advertisement for Norris Homes, Inc., New Tazewell, TN
• List of people who lived on my Knoxville News-Sentinel Paper Route in 1962-1963, Tazewell, Tennessee
• The Farmers Central Warehouse, New Tazewell, TN
• Frank James visits Benjamin Schultz at Tazewell in 1875
• The Isham G. Leabow Family of Lone Mountain, Tennessee.
• The Tolliver Dotson Campbell Family of Bear Creek, Tennessee. New information added. Campbell/DeBusk Connection.
• A picture of Hotel Duncan/Cawood,New Tazewell, destroyed by fire somewhere around 1945.
• Historical Places in Tazewell, Tennessee
• Cumberland Gap Caves Being Restored
• Civil War Monument will be repaired (Randall Bailey passes away, January 5, 2004)
• Old Methodist cemetery improvements finished
• A few pictures of the Irish Memorial Cemetery, Tazewell, TN
• Pictures of the renovated "Breastworks Cemetery" and Capt. David Chadwell's Grave
• The Love and Brown families cemtery is located on the Tazewell side of the Breastworks Hill.
• The Big Barren Creek Flood Election Morning, Aug. 3, 1916
• The Typhoid Epidemic of 1946 and why the county was forced to take property to construct the Ball Creek Intake!!
• Cultural and Ethnic Diversity on the Western Frontier: CUMBERLAND GAP TENNESSEE, 1750-1915
• Cumberland Gap, Tennessee and the Powell's River Valley
• Article "Cumberland Gap: Where 3 States Meet History" by Don Schaub
• The City of Harrogate, Tennessee Homepage
• Bell County Kentucky Historical Society
• Looking for information regarding Providence Baptist Church located in Powell Valley. (Gentleman has church bell blown away by tornado of March 14,1933.)
• I am going to include the e-mails from Gary Keck of Monroe, Michigan on a page I will call TAZEWELL NORTH. E-mail me your stories and lineages regarding your relocation and a way to get in touch so that long lost friends or maybe new friends can get in touch with you. Many of our locals really want to make you feel welcome - maybe this will help.

Family Articles and Pictures

• Pictures from Lincoln Memorial University 1974-1978 and LMU's 1975-1976 NAIA Tournament Team.
• Den No. 54 Tazewell, Tennessee Cub Scouts in 1958 Tobacco Festival Parade, Tazewell, Tennessee.
• Edward "Ned" Walker House picture's and a Walker Family Historical Document . Phillip A. Walker, a descendant of the Walker's from Walker's Ford area of Union and Claiborne area has posted an informative website with much UPDATED information. He has mentioned Vannah (Carr) Greever, wife of Jimmy Greever who many Claiborne County residents will recognize.
• Here are a group of 1850's letters from Claiborne County families who took the phrase "There's GOLD in them there hills" seriously. The Fielding Lewis Family and the California Gold Rush!

• The Payne family in this 1849 letter from Hiram D. Payne in Hancock County to his brother John Parker Payne in Kentucky also speaks of the California Gold Rush!
• I need help identifying THIS PICTURE said to be of either Kenneth, Frank or Lawrence Ault.
• The Tin Type picture made somewhere around 1865 of William Shipley, husband of Margaret Buis has been identified. Susan Shipley of Knoxville, TN now has her ancestor's picture.
• From my grandfather Phillip's scrapbook a 1949 Knoxville News-Senitnel clipping regarding a ruckus between two old friends, brother-in-laws, from what it says. The names mentioned are Greer, Standifer and Cloud.
• Very Early Claiborne County Pictures from the Baumgardner and Farmer Family Album that need to be identified. One large group was taken in Claiborne County and may have been about the time of the Anninius Honeycutt Hanging. Could it be?
• Another picture identifying project of very old tin types and pictures from the Raven Ridge-Lower Caney Valley Communities comes from Tina Lephew Cooke. Surnames include Harrell, Hayes, Hurst, West and others.
  Visit An Old Trunk Just Full of Pictures
• A Biography of Patrick Willis 1822-1889 Elizabeth Ann "Betsy Ann" Pittman 1827-1889 by Don Rivara, (donrivara@aol.com)
• GreatGrandfather George Livesay was Editor of the Cumberland Gap Progress for years but decided to leave and start his own newspaper in New Tazewell The New Tazewell Times
• Capt. Joe Phillips' Recommendation from B. Carroll Reece, Member of Congress and an Original Receipt for the materials to run Wire Between the Tazewells "Feb. 1,1915" Capt. Joe Phillips (my grandfather)
• Help me identify pictures from Baumgardner-Stone-Farmer Scrapbook
  
  Series One - Series Two - Series Three
• The Early Hunter/Ausmus/Bollinger Connection in Claiborne County, Tennessee by William J. Hunter
Some news from Jim Hunter of Utah
The 2004 Hunter Reunion in Springfield, MO.
Early Hunter/Ausmus/Bollinger Marriages - Claiborne, Union, Grainger, Campbell Counties
• Here are two files from Carolyn Kiser.

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• The first concerns a daughter of David Chadwell, Barthenia Chadwell Cottrell and Jeremiah Skelton (her second husband). She was a widow of Moses Cottrell who was killed in an accident.
• The second is her notes regarding David being the son of George Chadwell and Gemimah,. John would be a brother to David rather that his father. What do you think?
• If you would like to place a Query regarding Claiborne County History or Genealogy please post it here!
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School Annuals - Class Pictures - School Invitations

Howard's Quarter School 1959-1960 click on picture to help identify.

• Rare Picture of the First School in Tazewell - built about 1843 - Tazewell Academy. Location was where Giles No.2 Subdivision is located above Cedar Fork Road.
• 1938-1939 Soldiers Memorial Grade School King and Queen Coronation . Several of the participants are identified but still need help with others.
• 1954-1955 Soldiers Memorial Grade School and Junior High School from John Kivitt's Memories
• Etta Downing would like help in identifying the Claiborne County High School Class of 1955 Senior Trip to Washington, D.C. faculty and students.
• HOME ECONMICS Help me identify the 1961 Home Economics Class at Claiborne County High School. These people are all freshmen and were seniors when I was a freshman in 1963. Also a picture of the STUDENT COUNCIL 1963.
• Class Pictures from Early Claiborne County Schools
• Class Pictures from late 1950's early 1960's Soldiers Memorial Middle School
• Tina Cooke's Sycamore Hall and Lakeview Pictures
• The 1960 fire that destroyed the Tazewell Junior High School
• Graduation Invitations and Souvenirs from Claiborne County Schools
• The 1930-1931 "Pioneer" combined annual of the Claiborne County and Powell Valley High Schools.
• Claiborne County Schools
• This article appeared in the October 2007 issue of KnoxFocus.com and was concerning the new Grainger County High School, the end of the Rutledge Pioneers and the continuation of Washburn High School.
• Have a look at my scrapbook "The First Three Years of Claiborne County Football".
  Hancock County has it's FIRST VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM. Let's wish them all success in this coming year.
• An article from my brother, George Payne, in the Dec. 1966 Progress regarding Football in Claiborne County
• Follow your favorite High School Tennessee Team. Visit Coach T's Website
• Joe Payne's School Class Pictures

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