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The Tennessee Children's Home Society was chartered as a non-profit corporation in 1897. [2] In 1913, the Secretary of State granted the society a second charter. [2] The Society received community support from organizations that supported its mission of "the support, maintenance, care, and welfare of white children under seven years of age admitted to [its] custody."
Over several decades, 19 of the children who died at the Tennessee Children's Home Society due to the abuse and neglect that Tann subjected them to were buried in a 14 ft × 13 ft (4.3 m × 4.0 m) lot at the historic Elmwood Cemetery with no headstones. Tann bought the lot sometime before 1923 and recorded the children there by their first ...
In 1909, Tennessee Orphan Home began in Columbia, Tennessee, to meet the needs of the three Scotten children who were tragically orphaned.In 1934 the Church of Christ Tennessee Orphan Home bought the campus of the former Branham and Hughes Military Academy in Spring Hill, and the next year the orphanage was moved there from Columbia.
In the early 1900s, the Tennessee Children’s Home Society was an illegal orphanage that kidnapped babies from poor households and sold them. Image credits: Reach-for-the-sky_15 #30
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Pages in category "Orphanages in Tennessee" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Tennessee Children's Home; Tennessee Children's Home Society
Camille Kelley (née McGee; October 13, 1879 – January 28, 1955) was an American juvenile court judge and author. She was investigated by the state of Tennessee for using her judgeship to aid Georgia Tann's ongoing adoption fraud operation conducted under the auspices of the Tennessee Children's Home Society and resigned shortly after this information became public.
Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes, Inc, a non-profit organization founded in 1891, is a ministry of the churches of the Tennessee Baptist Convention which provides residential care and foster care support for children, as well as family care resources in the state.