April is National Volunteer Month

 To our fine team of Tennessee Room Volunteers…

Annette Cooley

Starla Dougan

Sandra Kelly

Linda Freeman

Jimmy Wilkins

Thank You!

To read more about our volunteers, past and present, visit the Friends of the Library newsletter, Bookends (Spring 2013), p. 7.

Local DAR Chapter Donates Book

The Jackson-Madison Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently donated a copy of Arthur Hirsch’s book, The Huguenots of South Carolina, in honor of Mary Margaret Buck.

New Cemetery Book Added to Our Collection

Rose Marie Toms and John Larry Russell have spent considerable time and effort researching the Rogers Spring Cemetery in South Central Hardeman County, Tennessee.  They have compiled and published a 34 page book containing the results of their work, including the names, dates, and other information recorded from the gravestones.  Also the provide a brief history of the cemetery, along with a map and directions to the cemetery.  Rose and John can be reached at rosemtoms@yahoo.com .

Our email address has changed!

Our new email address is:

tnroom@co.madison.tn.us

The War of 1812 and Black History Month

February is not only Black History Month,  it is also in the midst of the War of 1812 bicentennial.

The Fall 2012 issue of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly contains two articles that bridge these historical themes:

“Slavery and the War of 1812,” by Nathaniel Millett and

“Sons of Freedom,” by Gene Allen Smith. 

Although the War of 1812 is rarely associated with the Black slave population in America, these articles provide insight into how this war impacted it and in turn how it influenced the war.

Quarterly Journals Online

The Mid-West Tennessee Genealogical Society

has permitted the Tennessee Genweb Project

to place online the first ten years of their quarterly journal,

Family Findings.

You can access these by clicking

on the Mid-West Tennessee Society button on the right,

                      then  click on the green Family Findings button on the right.                   

Inventory of Jackson, Tennessee Newspapers Now on Our Website!

A chronological list of existing

Jackson, Tennessee newspapers, 1823 – 2011,

can be found

on the Tennessee Room Selected Holdings page

of our website.

You will see the link under Newspapers.

Thanks go to

Evelyn Keele, Tennessee Room Assistant Librarian

Annette Cooley, Starla Dougan, and Donna Flack,

Tennessee Room Volunteers

and

Zoe Pride, Library Assistant and IT Specialist

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Also Thanks go to

Tennessee Room Volunteer, Sandra Kelly,

for her work with our vertical files.