Ever since I was a little girl, I have been a cat person. The photo of my great-grandmother Gertrude Tarkington holding a cat gives me a ...

I am in Raleigh, North Carolina for the 2017 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference, which began today. During the opening ...

Vaughn's Gap is located in southwestern Davidson County, Tennessee, near the Williamson County border. Edwin Warner Park is located ...

In October 1907 in Davidson County, Tennessee, Maggie Tarkington took her younger siblings Gertrude (my great-grandmother) and Robert Tark...

Although I have featured George Washington Tarkington's gravestone before, this is a much better photo of it. The tombstone was erec...

My 3rd-great-grandmother Angeline Isabelle Mayo was born 185 years ago today, on 16 August 1831, in Virginia. She was the daughter of Jacob ...

Nashville Tennesseean and Nashville American , 29 July 1915, page 4 In July 1915, Susan (Culley) Tarkington (the widow of my 2nd-great-...

At 7:48 AM on 15 September 1909, Passenger Train No. 4 and Freight Train No. 51 collided about one mile west of Pegram's Station, Cheat...

The Tennessee State Penitentiary opened on 1 January 1831. The original facility was located on Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee. It...

Daily American , 19 January 1878, page 4 On 16 January 1878, George Washington Tarkington married Susan E. Post in Davidson County, Te...

Nashville American , 5 July 1907, page 5 Robert Leland Taylor.     Robert Leland Taylor, aged one month, died Thursday at the residen...

Today is the day that we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country. I am remembering family members who died whi...

Nashville Tennesseean , 7 July 1942, page 2 Sandy G. Tarkington  To Be Buried Today County Investigator's  Father Dies Her...

Nashville Tennessean , 18 January 1937, page 2    YARBOROUGH ––Sunday morning , January 17, at 4:30 o'clock at the home of her niec...

Republican Banner , 12 October 1869, page 3 The Tennessee Agricultural and Mechanical Association held a fair in Nashville on 18-23 Oct...

Nashville Tennessean , 11 December 1937, page 22 BALLOW ––Friday, Dec. 10, 1937 at her home 1025 Villa Place at 3:10 p.m. o'clock, ...