After four days of intensive searching in an abandoned strip-mining area, dotted with mine shafts, caves and water-filled pits, divers recovered the bodies of two Marion brothers Thursday afternoon. Continue reading
Notice by Postmaster J. Paul Smothers that the postal savings department of the postal service will be discontinued marks the end of a service which for seven years was the only savings depository in Marion. Continue reading
The old settlers met in Marion on Saturday, July 10, 1880 at 2 o’clock p.m. and organized a second time by appointing Dr. Bundy chairman and Dr. Lodge secretary. On motion of Rev. A.T. Benson and seconded by R.T. Pulley, it was resolved “That all persons a resident of Williamson County prior to 1860 and fifty years of age or older, be invited to meet each other at the Fair Grounds near Marion on Thursday, August 12, 1880 and have an old fashioned barbeque and talk over old times.” Continue reading
According to a Pioneer Sons of Williamson County application handout issued just prior to the 1939 Williamson County Centennial this group was formed on August 15, 1939. Continue reading