Weakley County's residents voted to stay with the Union in June 1861 while most of West Tennessee supported the Confederacy. Local farmer and slave owner John Drewry spoke passionately against secession here at the courthouse. On June 8, he . . . — — Map (db m274280) HM
Weakley County was established Oct. 21, 1823, and named for Robert Weakley, then Speaker of the State Senate. In 1825, John Terrell gave 39 acres for the county seat. Martin Lawler, Richard Ridgeway, John R. Shultz, Perry Vincent, and Mears Warner, . . . — — Map (db m83162) HM
(front/south side)
In honor of the Confederate Soldiers of Weakley County,
Tennessee 1861-1865
(west side)
Weakley County Confederate soldiers participated in all the western battles among which are: Belmont, Donaldson, Shiloh, . . . — — Map (db m127898) WM
Dedicated to the memory of those who died and in honor of all who served
World War I
James M. Allen
Bryan Arnold
Frank H. Beasley
Cayce F. Brann
Pleasant V. Byars
Huly Cantrell
Charlie A. Calvin
William Franklin . . . — — Map (db m276605) WM
City of Gleason Dedicates this Memorial to all Veterans living or deceased who have honorably served their country that freedom may reign — — Map (db m274285) WM
A large water-powered mill was established during the 1830s on the middle fork of the
Obion River, north of Gleason. It produced lumber, two grades of flour, shorts, cornmeal,
and cracked corn for feed, which were shipped by flatboat to New . . . — — Map (db m155914) HM
Founded in 1900 by local Baptists as Hall-Moody Institute, later Hall-Moody Junior College. Following acquisition by Martin and Weakley County, State Legislature placed the College under The University of Tennessee in 1927; made it degree-granting . . . — — Map (db m155916) HM
May 6, 1862: Col. Thomas Claiborne's Sixth Confederate Cavalry attacked and destroyed three companies of the Fifth Iowa Cavalry at Lockridge Mill about 1 mile north on the north Fork of the Obion River. The Fifth Iowa Cavalry was under the Command . . . — — Map (db m127152) HM
This church is a memorial to our heavenly father, and to the devoted pioneers of the land.
“So built we the wall for all the people had a mind to work.”
Nehemiah 4:6 — — Map (db m155915) HM
