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On 28 August 1852, fifty prominent Memphis citizens each contributed $500 for stock certificates in order to purchase 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of land for the cemetery; they envisioned that this land would be a park for the living as well as the dead, where family outings, picnics, and social gatherings could occur. It was meant to be a place ...
Shelby County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census , the population was 929,744. [ 3 ] It is the largest of the state's 95 counties , both in terms of population and geographic area.
Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Nutbush neighborhood in northeast Memphis, Tennessee.Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 44.2 acres (17.9 ha), and as of the end of 2007, had 42,184 interments.
An inmate died at the Shelby County Jail, commonly called 201 Poplar, Friday morning, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. TBI is investigating the death at the request of Shelby ...
Tennessee Department of Correction. Retrieved on 2023-10-25. 'I did not kill them' condemned man says. The Tennessean, February 3, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-02-04. 'I commend my life into your hands' Tenn. inmate sings hymns as execution is carried out. Fox 17 Nashville. Retrieved on 2019-05-17.
Brooke Muckerman covers Shelby County Government for The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at (901) 484-6225, brooke.muckerman@commercialappeal.com and followed on X, formerly known as Twitter ...
"Celebrated Vendetta" Maysville Daily Public Ledger, March 23, 1903 The deal that resulted in James McMillin's murder was supposedly done in December 1856. [11] In Slave-Trading in the Old South, Frederic Bancroft described the circumstances of McMillin's death, writing that he was "a well-known trader, who for years had ranged over Kentucky searching for slaves for Lexington and Memphis dealers.
Eddie August Schneider's (1911–1940) death certificate, issued in New York.. A death certificate is either a legal document issued by a medical practitioner which states when a person died, or a document issued by a government civil registration office, that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths.