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Lost paupers cemetery found
Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Post, June 23, 2013 A stranger asking about his father’s final resting place sent the administrator of Community Care of Rutherford County on a years-long search. “A gentleman came in the facility,” Community Care Administrator Mark King explained about that fateful meeting. “He said his dad…
Deltas reflect on century of activism
A.J. Dugger, The Murfreesboro Post, June 9, 2013 For many years, the Rutherford County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. has been making positive contributions to Murfreesboro. In July, the ladies will take their positivity to Washington, D.C., to celebrate the organization’s 51st annual National Convention. The local…
Coleman Scouts daring men with extraordinary lives
May 22, 2013, Susan Harber, The Daily New Journal William Roberts, William Montfort Street and John Davis were four daring Coleman Scouts. William Roberts Roberts enlisted in the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry in Hayes Blackman’s Company of McCann’s Gunners in 1861. Roberts soon became a Coleman Scout under Captain Henry Shaw…
Discover Rutherford: Gum hold memories of family
DNJ, Mark Bell, Monday, March 11, 2013 GUM — The community could just as well be somewhere over the rainbow, but instead it’s just a few miles down the road from downtown Murfreesboro, off Manchester Pike and a little past Buchanan. The unincorporated Gum community in southeast Rutherford County is perhaps…
Few Know the Courage and Suffering of Dewitt Jobe
Remembering the Alamo
Shirley Farris Jones, The Murfreesboro Post, March 10, 2013 Wednesday marked the 177th anniversary of the end of one of the most courageous, albeit ill-fated and hopeless standoffs in American history, when fewer than 200 brave citizens attempted to hold off a Mexican army of more than 6,000 in the…
Greatest Generation served community after war
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, February 24, 2013 Rutherford County provided more than 4,000 men for active service in World War II. One of those men who served was my father, Richard Claude Shacklett. The circumstances surrounding war times had brought two very different people together from opposite ends…
Students get first look at Lincoln’s work
Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Post, February 14, 2013 When Heather Chaput entered the Tennessee State Museum’s Freedom’s Call Emancipation Proclamation essay contest, she never dreamed she would win. “Things like this don’t happen to people you know, especially not me,” said Chaput, a junior at Daniel-McKee Alternative School. Chaput explained…
Memory of eccentric entrepreneur still remains
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, January 27, 2013 Almost 75 years ago, downtown Murfreesboro was the center of the region’s economic activity. Every Saturday, folks from surrounding Middle Tennessee counties would come to shop, visit with neighbors and trade. On the corner of South Maple and Vine streets, which…