"of the Wild Frontier"". First recorded and introduced on the television series ""Disneyland"" in 1954, it has been covered by a number of artists, most notably Tennessee Ernie Ford. The song's lyrics say Crockett was ""born on a mountaintop in Tennessee"", but his actual birthplace was Limestone, Tennessee, the home of Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park. In addition to his renowned frontier exploits and military service, Crockett served East Tennessee as a state legislator and Congressman. The folk hero Daniel Boone, who helped explore East Tennessee, was honored in the soundtrack for the television series ""Daniel Boone"", which ran from"
"Benjamin F. Cheatham Benjamin Franklin ""Frank"" Cheatham (October 20, 1820 – September 4, 1886) was a Tennessee planter, California gold miner, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served in the Army of Tennessee, inflicting many casualties on Sherman at Kennesaw Mountain, but taking the blame for General Schofield's escape at Spring Hill, a major factor in the Confederate defeat at Franklin. Cheatham was born in Nashville, Tennessee on a plantation called Westover, which in its prime consisted of three thousand acres (12 km²). He was born into two of the most prominent"
"State of Franklin The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin or the State of Frankland) was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today Eastern Tennessee, United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence. It was founded with the intent of becoming the fourteenth state of the new United States. Franklin's first capital was Jonesborough. After the summer of 1785, the government"
"the Appalachians, and the ""germ cell"" of the state of Tennessee. During the American Revolution, the Wataugans supplied 240 militiamen (led by John Sevier) to the frontier force known as the Overmountain Men, which defeated British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. Tennessee's first attempt at statehood was the State of Franklin, formed in the 1780s with its capital initially at Jonesborough and later Greeneville, but the state was never admitted by Congress. The Southwest Territory, which encompassed much of what is now Tennessee and Kentucky, was created in 1790 with William Blount as its first governor. Blount and"
"Seale Harris Seale Harris (March 13, 1870 – March 17, 1957) was an American physician and researcher born in Cedartown, Georgia. He was nicknamed ""the Benjamin Franklin of Medicine"" by contemporaries for his leadership and writing on a wide range of medical and political topics. Dr. Harris' most celebrated accomplishments were his 1924 hypothesis of hyperinsulinism as a cause of spontaneous hypoglycemia. Harris received a medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1894 and established a medical practice in Union Springs, Alabama. After the completion of postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Harris accepted the position of Professor"
"the Association of Confederate Soldiers Tennessee Division was named the Frank Cheatham Bivouac in honor of the Confederate general. Benjamin F. Cheatham Benjamin Franklin ""Frank"" Cheatham (October 20, 1820 – September 4, 1886) was a Tennessee planter, California gold miner, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served in the Army of Tennessee, inflicting many casualties on Sherman at Kennesaw Mountain, but taking the blame for General Schofield's escape at Spring Hill, a major factor in the Confederate defeat at Franklin. Cheatham was born in Nashville, Tennessee on a plantation called Westover, which"
"born and raised in Hess, a tiny village of Oklahoma with less than thirty people, located in the southwest part of the state just above the Texas border. She was the oldest of four children into the family of Homer Francis and Lizzie Mae (née Steen) Risinger, and grew up in a sharecropping family surrounded by hard times. Her father worked in a gas station, and when his salary did not stretch far enough, his skill hunting jack rabbits put food on the family table. Meanwhile, her mother was a housewife and had a garden; there were always pinto beans"
"Jesse Franklin Jesse Franklin (March 24, 1760August 31, 1823) was the Democratic-Republican U.S. senator from the U.S. state of North Carolina between 1799 and 1805 and between 1807 and 1813. He later served as the 20th Governor of North Carolina from 1820 to 1821. Franklin was the brother of Meshack Franklin, who also served in Congress. Jesse Franklin was born in Orange County in the Colony of Virginia on March 24, 1760. He was the son of Bernard and Mary Franklin, the third of seven sons. Franklin moved to North Carolina with his father in 1774 and served as a"
"to Roxanna Hummel Claflin and Reuben Buckman Claflin in Homer, Licking County, Ohio. Tennessee was named after the state either because her parents visited the state or because her father was a fan of then Tennessean Congressman James Polk. Elder sister, Victoria Claflin Woodhull was born in 1838. Reuben Buckman Claflin, known as ""Buck,"" was a snake oil salesman who posed as a doctor. He had some legal training and sometimes presented himself as a lawyer. His work experiences included ferrying timber down the Susquehanna River and working in a saloon. He came from an impoverished branch of the Massachusetts-based"
"the state's westward expansion across the Appalachian Mountains. The town was renamed ""Jonesboro"" for a period of time, but it has been changed back to the original spelling. Jonesborough was originally a part of the Washington District. In 1784, it became the capital of the autonomous State of Franklin (ostensibly named after American founding father, Benjamin Franklin). Congress, however, never recognized Franklin, which was re-claimed by North Carolina in late 1788. Jonesborough is often considered to be the center of the abolitionist movement within the states that would join the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Elihu Embree printed his"
"his liberalism, his insurgency against party leaders, his isolationist foreign policy, his support for labor unions, and especially for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority. President Franklin Roosevelt called him ""the very perfect, gentle knight of American progressive ideals,"" and this has been the theme of all of his biographers. A 1957 advisory panel of 160 scholars recommended that Norris was the top choice for the five best Senators in U.S. history. Norris was born in 1861 in York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio and was the eleventh child of poor, uneducated, farmers of Scots-Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch descent. He graduated from"
"the state of Tennessee in 1973. According to his own recollections, Crockett was born ""at the mouth of Lime Stone, on the Nola-chucky river."" Crockett recalled that his father, John Crockett, had moved to the Tennessee area from Lincoln County, North Carolina years before. Crockett's father appears in Washington County court records as early as 1778, and appears in Greene County court records throughout the 1780s. Crockett related an event from his very early childhood in which his brothers almost drowned in the Nolichucky trying to paddle over ""a fall in the river, which went slap-right straight down."" This may"
"birthplace of Tennessee Ernie Ford. In 1927, Ralph Peer of Victor Records began recording local musicians in Bristol to capture the local sound of traditional 'folk' music of the region. One of these local sounds was created by the Carter Family. The Carter Family got their start on July 31, 1927, when A.P. Carter and his family journeyed from Maces Spring, Virginia, to Bristol, Tennessee, to audition for record producer Ralph Peer who was seeking new talent for the relatively embryonic recording industry. They received $50 for each song they recorded. The U.S. Congress recognized Bristol as the ""Birthplace of"
"Asa Faulkner Asa Faulkner (July 16, 1802 - July 29, 1886) was an American businessman and politician. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives and the Tennessee Senate. Asa Faulkner was born on July 16, 1802 in Edgefield, South Carolina. His father was Dr. Archibald Faulkner and his mother, Rebecca Burkhalter. He was of German descent. His parents settled in Warren County, Tennessee when he was 6. Faulkner began his career by working for a woollen mill from 1812 to 1830, when he built his own. He also acquired a cotton gin and built a dam, and became wealthy"
"Lawson D. Franklin Lawson D. Franklin (1804–1861) was an American planter, slavetrader and businessman in the antebellum South. He was the first millionaire in Tennessee. Lawson D. Franklin was born on January 19, 1804, the son of Owen Franklin and Elizabeth ""Betsy"" Franklin (née Roper). On his paternal side, he was a descendant of one of Benjamin Franklin's brothers. Franklin was a large landowner and businessman. He traded animals and black slaves. He funded the Bank of East Tennessee, a bank based in Rogersville, Tennessee. Franklin became the first millionaire in Tennessee. Franklin married Elizabeth Rogers (1809-1846). They had three"
"Jacks Creek, Tennessee Jacks Creek (or Jack's Creek) is an unincorporated community in Chester County, Tennessee, United States. The area was settled in the 1820s. There are multiple legends about the source of the name of the creek running through the community which bears its name. They agree only in that the ""Jack"" after whom it was named was a young African-American slave boy, who either drowned in the creek, discovered the excellence of its water, or was captured by Indians on its banks. There were two minor incidents near Jacks Creek during the Civil War: a skirmish one mile"
"United States. Hensley told his children he was from West Virginia and that his family's roots were in Pennsylvania. In reality, his family lived in Hawkins County, Tennessee, in 1880, the year historian David Kimbrough argues Hensley was born. One of 13 children, Hensley lived in Tennessee in Hawkins County and Loudon County in the 1880s. His family lived in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, in the 1890s, and there he witnessed an elderly woman handle a snake during a revival service at a coal mining camp. His mother and sisters were very religious, and he was reared a Baptist. Hensley"
"led a movement to form a separate state in East Tennessee known as ""Frankland."" Though this movement was unsuccessful, the idea that East Tennessee should be a separate state periodically resurfaced over the subsequent two decades. Many businesses in the State of Franklin use that name to keep the legacy alive, such as the ""State of Franklin Bank"", based in Johnson City, Tennessee. One of the main thoroughfares in Johnson City is named ""State of Franklin Road"" and passes by East Tennessee State University. In law school examinations in the U.S., a fictional ""State of Franklin"" is used as a"
"into a budget surplus. He also created Tennessee's first state park, and lent state support for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. During his tenure, the balance of power in state politics shifted from the state legislature to the governor. In 1925, Peay signed into law the Butler Act, which barred the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools. The enactment of this law led to the Scopes Trial, which took place later that year. Peay was born in Christian County, Kentucky, the son of Austin Peay, a farmer, and Cornelia (Leavell) Peay. Early advertisements"
"June 17, 2011 after a lengthy illness. Ben Grussendorf Benjamin Franklin ""Ben"" Grussendorf, Jr. (February 23, 1942 – June 17, 2011) was an educator and Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. Grussendorf represented Sitka, Alaska (where he lived for most of his life) and surrounding areas for ten terms in the Alaska House of Representatives, and remains one of the body's longest-serving members. He also served as Speaker of the House, becoming the first person to be elected to that office for three terms. Benjamin Franklin Grussendorf, Jr. was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota to Fern (née Ross)"
"discussed seceding from Alabama. The two illustrate the often divided and confused state of loyalties in the central South during this period. During 1863, the Army of Tennessee retreated through the county, leaving it to Union control thereafter. Isham G. Harris, Confederate governor of Tennessee, was from Franklin County. After being restored to political rights after the war, he was elected to represent the state in the United States Senate. During the temperance (anti-liquor) agitations of the late 19th century, residents discovered that by a quirk of state law, liquor could be sold only in incorporated towns. As a consequence,"
"Franklin, Tennessee Franklin is a city in, and the county seat of, Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. Located about 21 miles south of Nashville, it is one of the principal cities of the Nashville metropolitan area and Middle Tennessee. Williamson County was primarily rural into the late 20th century, with an economy based on traditional commodity crops and livestock. In the nineteenth century, part of its economy (especially the cultivation of tobacco and hemp) depended on slavery, and after the American Civil War racial violence, designed to suppress the black vote, claimed lives. The Ku Klux Klan is believed to"
"frustrated East Tennesseans in 1784 to form the breakaway State of Franklin. John Sevier was named governor, and the fledgling state began operating as an independent, though unrecognized, government. At the same time, leaders of the Cumberland settlements made overtures for an alliance with Spain, which controlled the lower Mississippi River and was held responsible for inciting the Indian raids. In drawing up the Watauga and Cumberland Compacts, early Tennesseans had already exercised some of the rights of self-government and were showing signs of a willingness to take political matters into their own hands. Such stirrings of independence caught the"
"team in Tennessee history. The 1914 Vols were retroactively awarded a national championship by 1st-N-Goal, though this remains largely unrecognized. One account of the Sewanee game that year reads ""Mush Kerr played a wonderful game in the line as did Capt. Kelly. The work of the Tennessee line was easily the feature of the contest, and Sewanee early discovered that it was practically useless to rely on line plunges to gain ground."" Farmer Kelly Farmer Kelly (January 22, 1889 – April 26, 1961) was a college football player, from Orlinda, Tennessee. He was then a county agent for the U."
"campaigns and editorials. ""The Almanac of American Politics"" once wrote that ""no American politician is more controversial, beloved in some quarters and hated in others, than Jesse Helms"". Helms was born in 1921 in Monroe, North Carolina, where his father, nicknamed ""Big Jesse"", served as both fire chief and chief of police; his mother, Ethel Mae Helms, was a homemaker. Helms was of English ancestry on both sides. Helms described Monroe as a community surrounded by farmland and with a population of about three thousand where ""you knew just about everybody and just about everybody knew you."" The Helms family"
"in what is now Sevier County, Tennessee. When Tipton was only 6 years old his father was killed by Native Americans. His great uncle, also named John Tipton, was a prominent man in the area. When Tipton was an infant, his uncle's house was besieged by supporters of an effort to create the 14th state in Northeastern Tennessee called the State of Franklin. He was a direct descendent of Sir Anthony de Tipton who in 1282, is said to have slain the Prince of Wales at the Battle of Snowdon, whilst fighting for King Edward I At the age of"
"Benjamin Joseph Franklin Benjamin Joseph Franklin (March 1839 – May 19, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri, and territorial governor of Arizona. Born in Maysville, Kentucky, in March 1839, Franklin attended private schools, and Bethany College, Bethany, Virginia (now West Virginia) from 1849 to 1851. He taught school. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Leavenworth, Kansas. Franklin was elected to the State senate of Kansas in 1861, but due to the outbreak of the Civil War never served. He entered the Confederate States Army as a private. He was promoted"
"creating a breakfast program from impoverished students during the Great Depression and finally to creating the ""Negro Artist Series."" Memphis Tennessee Carter was born in Hollins, Virginia on March 3, 1890 to Cassie Thomas Carter and Wesley Carter. Both her parents were former slaves, and later her father became a coal miner. Memphis was the youngest of two children and due to her father's profession, her family spent her childhood in the Southern West Virginia coalfields. Memphis spent most of her days receiving an elementary education from the segregated West Virginia public schools. Later in life, Memphis went on to"
"temperamental and jealous individual who ""lacked intellectual force."" Later historians, among them Theodore Roosevelt (""Winning of the West""), gave more nuanced accounts of the Tipton-Sevier feud. John Tipton (Tennessee) John Tipton (August 15, 1730 – August 9, 1813) was an American frontiersman and statesman who was active in the early development of the state of Tennessee. He is best remembered for leading the opposition to the State of Franklin movement in the 1780s, as well as for his rivalry with Franklinite leader, John Sevier. He served in the legislatures of Virginia, North Carolina, the Southwest Territory, and Tennessee, and was"
"the nearly 1.5 million persons living in West Tennessee at the time of the 2000 Census, approximately 650,000 of those lived in Memphis, or about 43.3% of the grand division's population. While the region of Tennessee west of the Tennessee River was, on paper, part of Tennessee at its statehood in 1796, it had been recognized as Chickasaw territory by the 1786 Treaty of Hopewell, and it did not come under actual American control until it was obtained in a series of cessions by the Chickasaw in 1818, an acquisition known as the Jackson Purchase, and named for Andrew Jackson,"
"for the Confederate Army and three for the Union Army. The notorious ""Tinker Dave"" Beaty formed his Union scout company in Fentress County to battle with the pro-Confederate guerrilla's led by Champ Ferguson. Neither of these companies were ever mustered into the armies they supported, and they spent most of their time fighting each other. World War I hero Sgt. Alvin C. York was born and raised in Fentress County. He built the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute, a high school in Jamestown. It is one of four state-funded schools in Tennessee. Jamestown is located at (36.429082, -84.932414). The city"
"the Tennessee River, ""Arkansas"" and ""Tennessee"" on the Mississippi at Memphis, and ""Louisiana"" and ""Mississippi"" at New Orleans. In the end, only ""Arkansas"" of these five ever engaged the Union fleet in the intended manner; here we are concerned with why ""Mississippi"" was unable to do so. Nelson Tift had been raised in Florida, but moved to Georgia as a young man and there became locally prominent. (The town of Tifton, in Tift County, is named for him.) At the outbreak of the Civil War, he realized some of the difficulties faced by the South in its need to confront"
"disputed corpse was more likely Hillmon than Walters. The Hillmon case and Wesson's investigation of the identities of the corpse are described in detail in Wesson's book, A Death at Crooked Creek, and on the book's website. John Wesley Hillmon, a Civil War veteran, was born in 1848 in Indiana. In the late 1860s, he moved with his family to a Kansas township called Grasshopper Springs. In October 1878, Hillmon, thirty years old, married a young waitress named Sallie Quinn. Thereafter, the couple set up housekeeping in Lawrence, Kansas. Hillmon, an industrious man, had worked as a foreman, miner, brick"