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Glossary Type: Person

· August 7, 2026

Stooka

An anti-cession Cherokee remembered for swimming the Tallapoosa River during the Battle of Horseshoe Bend to steal canoes for Cherokee […]

· August 7, 2026

Capt. William Anderson White

Born 25 July 1829, died 25 August 1893. Joined the 12th Alabama Cavalry, Company D, 1st Battalion, Alabama Partisan Rangers, […]

· August 7, 2026

Rev. Phillip McCarty Musgrove

Born 1815, died 1905 - physician, lawyer, and Baptist preacher who founded The Broad-Axe newspaper at Bangor at age 60, […]

· August 7, 2026

Charles Campbell

Born 1757, died 1839 - he would have been 18 years old when the Revolution began in 1775. His monument […]

· August 7, 2026

John David Reno

Born 16 April 1746 in Prince William County, Virginia; died 1839. On 31 December 1777 he formally renounced allegiance to […]

· August 7, 2026

Vincent Garner Self Sr.

Born 1798, died 1869 - the documented namesake of Selfville, a real Blount County place with its own post office […]

· August 7, 2026

Gregory Glasscock

Born 1793, died 1869 - the documented root generation of the Glasscock family, which also extends to Sugar Creek Cemetery […]

· August 7, 2026

Charles Holt

Born 30 March 1762, died 19 September 1847 - a confirmed, accepted federal Revolutionary War pensioner per the 1840 pension […]

· August 7, 2026

Matthew Duffee

Mary Gordon Duffee‘s father, born 25 December 1803, died 1878. Planted his own orchard in 1852 on the northern slope […]

· August 7, 2026

George Washington Swann

Born 5 June 1840, died 5 March 1919, on Thacker’s Creek, Blount County - farmer, potter, leathersmith, blacksmith, Confederate soldier, […]

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