{"title":"Tennessee: Weakley County","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe county was established by the Tennessee General Assembly on October 21, 1823, and is named for U.S. Congressman Robert Weakley (1764–1845).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"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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Robert Weakley, a prominent pioneer of Middle Tennessee, a member of Tennessee's first Legislature and Speaker of the State Senate in 1823. This volume contains a number of items collected by the WPA workers in the late 1930s and were compiled into one volume. There is James C. Harrell's Civil War Diary, History of Weakley County, some cemetery records and the muster rolls of the 2nd Regiment of the Tennessee Cavalry Company H and I.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eExample:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom James C. Harrell's Civil War Diary - \"Sunday, June 26 [1864] - The spell is broken this morning by the rattle of small arms and the booming of an occasional shot from artillery at the picket post. Also upon Gen'l Ross We were ordered out in line at 2 PM - taking a very good position The Feds' charge up within three hundred yards of our lines when we open fire upon them with artillery and musketry driving them back handsomely. May God speek the end of the bloody affair This day closes after a little fight on the left We had one man wounded in the 28th Miss Reg\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSallie Hays\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1996, paper, 106 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788488481\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101E-TN0985\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40328559526006,"sku":"101E-TN0985","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101e-tn0985-1500px.png?v=1777148640"},{"product_id":"101e-tn0529","title":"Weakley County, Tennessee History and Biographies","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Goodspeed Publishing in 1887, this 62-page reprint is filled with names and sketches of Weakley County pioneers and complemented by a brief history of the county.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGoodspeed Publishing Company\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epaper, 62 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788490231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101E-TN0529\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40546036777078,"sku":"101E-TN0529","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101e-tn0529-1500px.png?v=1777148450"},{"product_id":"101e-tn1500","title":"Weakley County, Tennessee Marriage License Book Number 1, 1843-1853","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarriage records showing name of Groom, Bride, Date of Marriage and Name of Clerk for the years 1843-1853. 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