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HARDEMAN, Tennessee in the 1870s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Tennant farmers settled with Mr. Bills after the harvest
    date January 26, 1870map HARDEMAN, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Race-Relations

    On a cold Wednesday morning in February, tenant farmers Captain Bishop and the African Americans Coleman, Sandy, and Sam Watkins settled their rent with wealthy Tennessee planter John Houston Bills. The total crop for the year for all four men was worth 2,033 dollars Mr. Bills took 515 dollars for rent, or twenty five percent of the four men's total crop. These landless tenants had no choice but...

  2. The classic walls of The Dear Old Mary Sharpe College
    date January, 1870 to March 12, 1871map HARDEMAN, Tennesseetags Education, Women

    After two years of silence, Fannie Irene Jones wrote about her evolution from a little child of eleven longing for the shades of the classic walls of the dear old Mary Sharpe, to a college girl whose brightest hope as been realized. Unlike the stereotypical image of the upper class southern belle isolated on a large plantation, Fannie studied Latin and Greek every day until she could leave the farm...

  3. Calvinism in middle Tennessee
    date 1870 to May 20, 1871map HARDEMAN, Tennesseetags Church/Religious-Activity

    John Houston Bills never attended the same church on Sunday. Even in his early seventies, he had the mobility to travel all over the county to the Episcopal, Baptist, Evangelical Christian, and Presbyterian churches. Maybe he enjoyed hearing different preachers and different Christian perspectives, but church also served a social function for him. Bills was a successful businessman, planter, and...