{"title":"Tennessee: Gibson County","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe county was established by private act on October 21, 1823, and was named in honor of Colonel John H. Gibson who had died earlier that year. Gibson was a native of Bedford County, Tennessee who was commissioned Lieutenant in the Tennessee Militia; he took part in the War of 1812, the campaign to Natchez of 1813, and fought in the Creek Wars of 1813.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"101-h4778","title":"Furlough: The Civil War Diaries of Sarah Belle Bright and Charles Alexander Elder of Trenton, Tennessee 1861-1867","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Elder of Gibson County, Tennessee, was a twenty-three-year-old law student in the spring of 1861 when he decided he must do the right thing. He answered the South's call to duty and mustered with F Company of the 4th Tennessee Infantry, the West Tennessee Rifles. As daunting as the prospects of marching off to that terrible war must have seemed, there was one thing weighing even heavier on Charley's heart...he was madly in love with Belle Bright. Belle Bright was just eighteen that spring, and her heart was sinking at the thought of her boyish and charming suitor being lost in a war which knew no favorites and was bound to be relentless and cruel. Should she marry Charley against her parents' wishes? Should she wait for Charley to return from war? Would he return?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew Hays has compiled the collective diaries of his great-great-grandparents along with historical references, photos and documents in one book. \u003cem\u003eFurlough\u003c\/em\u003e is the transcription of the personal journals Belle and Charley each kept through their long separations, longings for furloughs, and blessed reunions throughout the American Civil War. Their letters were joyous and tragic and written with what seemed to be the souls of poets. As one reads their words, one can't help but be amazed by how descriptive, articulate and just plain beautiful such young people's words could be.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Hays\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2008, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 74 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788447785\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-H4778\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39323370422390,"sku":"101-H4778","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-h4778-1500px.png?v=1777214821"},{"product_id":"102-9982","title":"West Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices from 1821 to 1889","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe institution of apprenticeship was a common means of providing for the maintenance and future self-reliance of orphaned children as well as for any children whose parents had abandoned them or otherwise refused to support them. Apprenticeship records (which ordinarily take the form of bonds and indentures) are often buried among volumes of original county court minute books. They are nonetheless valuable to genealogists because they establish the existence of young people who might otherwise go undetected in the more conventional genealogical sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWest Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices from 1821 to 1889\u003c\/i\u003e marks the third and concluding volume in Dr. Alan N. Miller's series of extractions (begun in 2000) of Tennessee apprenticeship records. Just as he did for the 29 counties of East Tennessee and 35 counties of Middle Tennessee, Dr. Miller has sifted through the apprenticeship records of West Tennessee and brought them within the reach of the genealogy researcher. This third volume contains over 4,000 apprenticeship records scattered among the minutes of the county courts for West Tennessee. These records span the period 1821 to 1889 and list in tabular form the apprenticeships created in the following 19 Tennessee counties: Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, McNairy, Obion, Shelby, Tipton, and Weakley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Miller extracted data for this volume from county court minutes on microfilm obtained from the Tennessee State Archives, the Dallas Public Library, and the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. He has arranged the records by county and thereunder chronologically. For each record he gives the name of the apprentice, a date (either the date of the original bond or indenture or a subsequent date), age at apprenticeship, name of the master, and miscellaneous information ranging from the name of the mother or a sibling, race, cause of apprenticeship (e.g., orphan), his\/her trade, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan N. 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Its marriage records, preserved from 1824, are on file in the courthouse in Trenton. The records abstracted here derive from both bonds and licenses and are arranged in chronological order. Each gives the names of the bride and groom, the date of the bond or license (frequently both), and the names of the bondsmen. At least 4,000 marriage records are in this compilation, and all 10,000 persons mentioned in the records–brides, grooms, and bondsmen–are listed in the index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdythe Rucker Whitley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1982, paper, 173 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806309828\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-6332\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42669249560694,"sku":"102-6332","price":27.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/gpc-logo-102-6332-1500px.png?v=1777329993"}],"url":"https:\/\/heritagebooks.com\/collections\/tennessee-gibson-county\/tennessee+tennessee-weakley-county.oembed","provider":"Heritage Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}