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Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 [1] and named after an older sister who had died at age two [2] only ten days earlier. [3] Her father William Clemm, Jr. was a hardware merchant in Baltimore. [4] He had married Maria Poe, Virginia's mother, on July 12, 1817, [5] after the death of his first wife, Maria's first cousin Harriet. [6]
William Bedford (born 1963) — basketball player; Diane Meredith Belcher (born 1960) — concert organist, teacher, and church musician; Chris Bell (1951–1978) — musician; William Bell (born 1939) — singer; Charles T. Bernard (1927–2015) — businessman and Arkansas politician, died in Memphis in 2015; Big Scarr (2000-2022) — rapper
William Patton Black Jr. was born on September 17, 1926, in Memphis, Tennessee, to a motorman for the Memphis Street Railway Company.He was the oldest of nine children. [2] [3] His father played popular songs on the banjo and fiddle to entertain the family.
Harold Ford Jr. (May 11, 1970- ), who served five terms in of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 9th congressional district, centered in Memphis, from 1997 to 2007. [3] Jake Ford (October 1, 1972- ), who twice unsuccessfully ran for the TN 9th District in 2006 and 2008.
Ewing is the son of Addie Carolyn (Young) Ewing and William Hickman Ewing, Sr., a longtime high school football coach and the court clerk of Shelby County, Tennessee, who served time in the 1960s for embezzlement. [2] Ewing attended Whitehaven High School in Memphis, Tennessee, and graduated in 1960. [3]
The Robert M. Carrier House, also known as the Matthews House, is a historic house in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It was built in 1926 for Robert M. Carrier and his wife. [ 2 ] In 1974, it was purchased by William S. Matthews, Jr. [ 2 ] It was designed in the Jacobean Revival architectural style by Bryant Fleming , a Professor of ...
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, has died at the age of 74 after a battle with cancer, her family announced on Friday.
Thirteen years after its founding, St. Mary's became the first Episcopal cathedral in the American South. [2] While the 1866 Journal of the Proceedings of the Diocese of Tennessee's 34th convention and the national Episcopal Church's 1868 Journal of the General Convention both list St. Mary's as a cathedral church, the official transition from parish to "bishop's church" was January 1, 1871.