Category: Providence Church & Cemetery
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Aunt Jo
I love the way social networks allow those interested in gathering accurate records and stories of the past to share information and photographs. A distant relative I did not know previously, Joe Reid, emailed me last week, and we have been exchanging stories and information ever since. His grandmother, Jo Stella Williamson Reid (1896-1993) and…
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Stitching keeps church neat amid Providence landmarks
This article, published in the Jackson Sun on Friday, Aug. 12, 1983, includes my grandmother, Elizabeth Castellaw Williams. By BETTYE ANDERSONJackson Sun reporter Jane Carr, Doris Naomi “Nonie” Warren, and Elizabeth Williams, far right, work on a cross-stitch quilt to raise money for Providence United Methodist Church. The women, including the pastor’s wife, Faye Howard,…
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The Cemetery at Providence
I had just read on my BlackBerry that a couple of escaped convicts were being chased by police through Madison County, Tennessee. The news caught my attention because I had just been researching my grandfather’s maternal line, the Williamsons, who settled in Madison County near the Haywood County line and helped shape the rural community…