Ralph Vaughn, The Murfreesboro Post, January 6, 2013 The new year has further ushered in another chapter for the legacy of a prominent Murfreesboro business. Although the arrangements were consummated in the summer of 2011, Scales & Sons Funeral Home is now co-owned and managed by Tonya Scales Haynes, the…
Greg Tucker, The Daily News Journal, December 9, 2012 No longer master of his own fate in May 1948, and scheduled to die in the Georgia electric chair on June 4, Rutherford County native Spence Edwards could only sit in his Georgia Penitentiary cell and wait. Spence was convicted of…
Ken Beck, The Murfreesboro Post, December 2, 2012 For 35 years, 68-year-old Eddy Taylor nurtured the biggest sweet tooth in Rutherford County – his own. Across four decades, however, there were thousands who showed up at his family’s candy shop to soothe their sugar fixes. They did not go away…
Shirley Farris Jones, The Murfreesboro Post, November 25, 2012 As Thanksgiving Day approached and the good folks of Murfreesboro began their preparations, they had much to celebrate and more to be thankful for than they might have imagined just a few months prior. Deep down, most Confederate sympathizers knew their…
As published by the Murfreesboro Post, Michelle Willard, Sunday, November 13, 2012 If there’s one thing organizers of Murfreesboro’s Bicentennial Celebration want the public to remember, it’s the importance of history. This month’s schedule includes three events that mark the beginnings of three important aspects of Murfreesboro’s history – its first…
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, November 10, 2012 A morning fog lifted leaving billowing white clouds and a soft blue sky – a simply breathtaking view above the grand columns of the Rutherford County Courthouse. As falling leaves rustled and scampered across the lawn leaving a blanket of crimson…
‘Remembering Rutherford’ by Greg Tucker, Rutherford County Historian Sand Spring, once a place of natural beauty and later an urban ‘mud hole’ is now part of a protected wetland and educational resource. where water was once drawn, water is now discharged. When the Tennessee General Assembly appointed seven town commissions…
Duane W. Gang, The Tennessean, September 30, 2012 Hidden portion of Trail of Tears is rediscovered In the woods of the East Fork Recreation Area in northern Rutherford County – amid aging rock walls and the crumbled remnants of old streets – Pat Cummins and Toye Heape are rediscovering the…
As published by the Daily News Journal, Greg Tucker, Sunday, September 23, 2012 This Confederate raider swept twice through Rutherford County intercepting Union supplies, delaying Union advances and destroying bridges. Thirty-five years later he was a brigadier general in the U. S. Army, commanding a division in the Spanish-American War.…
As published by the Daily News Journal, Greg Tucker, Sunday, August 26, 2012 A shrewd attorney, businessman and politician, Andrew Lee Todd established his fortune and reputation in the years preceding World War I. Over the next two decades, he profited from every venture, except for two notable failures. From…