any natives descended from famous Nashvllians/Middle Tennesseans?

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Originally Posted by groovamos

See I'm not getting the negativity, here and in other posts. Contributor not present at the murder OK?

Alternative question: Who has authority to veto a statue based on the testimony of one witness? Did they bring this before a commission back then to figure it all out? Based on what? He had been a political figure and was murdered, case closed.

I found out about this story, and the statue, from my friends down here who all grew up knowing about a statue in TN of a antecedent. Contributor maybe thinks I would be better off never knowing this story, which I maybe would not have without that statue of a well known Tennessean.

Attitude adjustment time, people who grew up there like me would appreciate.

I need a decoder ring to decipher this.

[Tenn82]

Originally Posted by groovamos

See I'm not getting the negativity, here and in other posts. Contributor not present at the murder OK?

Alternative question: Who has authority to veto a statue based on the testimony of one witness? Did they bring this before a commission back then to figure it all out? Based on what? He had been a political figure and was murdered, case closed.

I found out about this story, and the statue, from my friends down here who all grew up knowing about a statue in TN of a antecedent. Contributor maybe thinks I would be better off never knowing this story, which I maybe would not have without that statue of a well known Tennessean.

Attitude adjustment time, people who grew up there like me would appreciate.

I think it was just a joke taken in stride

I maybe wrong but it just seemed to be a jokingly sarcastic comment not serious.

[Tenn82]

Originally Posted by creeksitter

My great great great grandfather used to be Governor of TN, but he got more famous after he started Texas.

I also know someone who is a descendant of John Sevier. We are both in E. TN though.

that is a great post.

I've always wondered if anyone still in ether TN or KY had any connections to Sam Houston or Jim Bowie or anything like that.


that's what Texans don't get. Davy Crockett, and even Sam Houston and some others, are not Texans.

Sam Houston actually got wounded very bad, and shot while fighting with the TN militia against the Creek Indians under the command of Andrew Jackson

they're Tennesseans who made their bones either fighting for Andrew Jackson here, or by being state representatives and congressmen from TN, as well as being some of the earlier long hunters and explorers and backwoodsmen who helped to created this region and bring in others over the mountains.


Davy Crockett is well known in our history but men like Sam Houston are largely overlooked in TN history even though he played important roles here too.

actually men like them are one of the factual reasons we are called the Volunteer state.

not only because we sent twice as many volunteers than was our state quota or asked of us during the Mexican War, but also because in the history of Texas and its fight for independence there are many famous peoples' names associated with that, who came from Tennessee and even Kentucky like Jim Bowie, (although he spent most his life in Louisiana).


Sam Houston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sevier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bowie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Boone

[creeksitter]

All of Houston's (known) children were born in Texas, but I imagine there are lots of relatives from the family that stayed in Maryville. There is a Sam Houston schoolhouse that would know the connections. It is just a fluke that I live in TN, I'm here because Dad's job brought us here in the 50's. Technically I'm not a native, but I feel like one.

[Tenn82]

Originally Posted by creeksitter

All of Houston's (known) children were born in Texas, but I imagine there are lots of relatives from the family that stayed in Maryville. There is a Sam Houston schoolhouse that would know the connections. It is just a fluke that I live in TN, I'm here because Dad's job brought us here in the 50's. Technically I'm not a native, but I feel like one.

so you've come full circle

[creeksitter]

If I really wanted to come full circle I'd have to head up to Lexington VA to live out my declining years.

[Tenn82]

Originally Posted by creeksitter

If I really wanted to come full circle I'd have to head up to Lexington VA to live out my declining years.

yeah I guess that's more or less true for all of us even in the broader scheme of things.

all of us native Tennesseeans are really just colonial transplants from NC and VA any damn way.