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1 Title Page 2 Dedication 3 Picture of Gov. Newton Cannon 4 Centennial Directors, with photos 5-6 Preface and Acknowledgment 7 Photo of Sterling Spurlock Brown 8-13 Foreword 13-17 Early Days in Tennessee Country 17-20 Organization of Cannon County 20-21 The First Commissioners 21-22 Lawrens Academy Chartered 22-23 The Hills of Cannon County 23-26 Explanatory 26-29 The First County Court 29-31 The First Settlers 31-32 The Settlement of Brawley's Fork 32 The Curlee Church 32-33 The First Paper 33-35 Settlers 35 Another Ancient House 35-36 Settlers 36-37 A Cannon County Samson 37-38 Settlers 38-39 The Record Snow Storm 39-40 When Gassaway Was Young 40-41 The Fifth District 41 On Saunder's Fork 41-42 Hill's Creek Pioneers 42-44 Early Settlers in the Eighth District 44 Stone's River Settlers 44-47 The Town with Three Names 47 Early Settlers at Readyville 47-48 Auburntown 48-55 Early Activities of the Pioneers 55-61 Early Churches in Cannon County [Baptist] 61-65 Christian Churches [Church of Christ] 65-68 Methodist Churches 68-70 Presbyterian Church 70-82 Woodbury 83-84 The Flood 84-86 Woodbury's Famous Sons 86-95 Marriages [1838-1850] 95-96 Marriages of the Negroes 96-98 Public Officers of Cannon County 98-103 Postal Service 103-104 Military Annals [Revolutionary War] 104-105 The War of 1812 105 The Mexican War 105-114 The Civil War 113 B. L. Sageley 114-115 The Ku Klux Klan 115-117 Cannon County Chapter U.D.C. [United Daughters of the Confederacy] 117-118 Battle in Cannon County [Civil War] 118-119 The Conquered Banner 119-122 Col. Bedford Forrest's Raid into Murfreesboro 122 The Spanish-American War 122-127 The World War 127-128 Newspapers 129 Removal of the Indians 130-131 Muster Laws and Muster Grounds 131-132 Early Schools at Woodbury 132-134 Schools at Woodbury 134-135 Marion Academy (Delke Academy) 136 Present Schools of the County 136-138 Masonic Lodges of Cannon County 138 Banks in Woodbury 138-139 Caves 139-140 The First Courthouse 140 Jails 140-141 Old Time Barbecue 141 Deer Hunters 141-142 Horse Show Day 142-143 Livery Barns 143 Sugar Tree Knob 144 Modern Enterprises145-235 Appendix [Prominent Citizens and Families]
145-146 Hugh L. Thompson 146-147 John Coffee New 147-149 William Wharton 150-152 The Brevard Family 152-154 James Andrew Jones 154-156 Joseph Leighton Ewell 156-157 Dr. Thomas Middleton Smoot 157 Dr. Ralph H. Adams 158 Isaac Floyd Bailey 159 Rex Cole Turman 160-161 Howard McMillen 161-163 Simpson F. Houston 163 John P. Adams 163-164 Robert Fountain Tatum 165-167 Richard Alexander Hancock 167-170 A Typical Pioneer Family [Brown] 170-171 Dr. Jesse F. Adams 171-173 Warren Cummings And His Descendants 173-175 William George McKnight 175-176 Hugh Lawson Preston 177-179 T. R. Preston 179-181 John W. Preston 181-184 Major Marion B. Kittrell 184-186 Dr. Lyman Beecher McCrary 186-188 William Cannon Houston, Sr. 188-190 Frank K. Houston 190-191 Sydney Houston 192-194 William Cannon Houston, Jr. 194-196 Jacob Burger Hawkins 196-199 John C. Roberts 199 Howard Payne Preston 200-201 Charles Miller Preston 201-202 The Fugitt Family 202-203 Henry David McBroom / Giles Harding McBroom 203-204 The Preston Family 205 Cannon County Captains in Confederate Army 206-207 Commodore Perry Brown 207-209 Robert Bogartus McBroom (By Charles Glenn McBroom) 209-211 William George Hollandsworth 211-212 James M. Roberts 212-213 Dr. C. M. Grizzle 213-215 W. W. Gray 215-216 William Barton 216-217 Ezra J. Lehman 217-218 J. Barrett and Edd Melton 218-219 Joe Loughry Northcutt 219-220 Captain James H. Wood 220-222 Dr. Bailey Peyton Lester 222-224 James Delaney Elkins 224-226 Josephus Finley 226-227 The Gilley Family 227-229 Joseph Marion Dixon Cates 229-230 The Doak Family 230-231 John Lee Fann 232 John Smithson 233-235 Members of Woodbury Bar