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Hawkins County Courthouse, ca. 1835–36, is situated at the center of Rogersville.Still in use, it is the second oldest courthouse in Tennessee. [9]In 1775, the grandparents of Davy Crockett, a future member of the United States Congress from Tennessee and hero of the Alamo, settled in the Watauga colony in the area in what is today Rogersville near the spring that today bears their name. [10]
A native of Hancock County, Tennessee, he was a safety engineer, real estate developer, farmer. and businessman. Hurley served in the United States Army and was an alumnus of East Tennessee State University. [2] [3] In 2017, Hurley was convicted of three counts of shoplifting in Rogersville, Tennessee. [4]
Givens was born in Rogersville, Tennessee, in 1947 to tobacco and dairy cattle farmers from Hawkins County. [1] He attended Rogersville City School and Rogersville High School, graduating from high school in 1965. Givens served in the United States Army, from which he was honorably discharged.
Since then, numerous newspapers and special publications have emanated from Rogersville. After the Gazette was moved, there was no newspaper in the area for more than 20 years. In 1813, John B. Hood began publishing the East Tennessee Gazette. Other papers followed, including the Western Pilot, circa 1815, and the Rogersville Gazette from the ...
Richard Hale (born James Richards Hale; November 16, 1892 – May 18, 1981) was an American opera and concert singer and later a character actor of film, stage and television.
Two months of mounting concerns crescendoed in a harrowing 24-hour stretch beginning the morning of Dec. 30, 2011. Around 9 a.m., Dunn called from his home in Tennessee to wish Maples a happy 83rd birthday at her home in Florida. Her speech was garbled and she wasn’t making any sense, he recalled.
George Leonard Berry (September 12, 1882 – December 4, 1948) was president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America from 1907 to 1948 and a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1937 to 1938.
He was interred in Rogersville, though his family had made plans to have him reinterred at Ebenezer Cemetery near Knoxville. [29] An obituary "The Late Maj. F. S. Heiskell" published within the December 5, 1882 edition of the Knoxville Daily Chronicle ascribed and honored Heiskell as being a "Pioneer of Tennessee Journalism". [30]