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Elizabeth Jones was born in 1890 in Somerville, Tennessee as the daughter of freed slaves.. She married Louis Bolden (1892–1955) in 1908 when she was eighteen and he was sixteen, and their first child, a son, James Ezell Bolden, Sr. (23 September 1910–18 September 1986) was born two years later when she was twenty and he was eighteen.
Somerville is a town in Fayette County, Tennessee, United States. It is part of the Memphis metropolitan area . The population was 3,415 at the 2020 census, [ 5 ] up from 3,094 at the 2010 census.
Dr. William Herbert Brewster, Sr. (July 2, 1897 – October 15, 1987) was a 20th century Renaissance man born just outside Memphis, Tennessee.He was a Baptist minister by trade as well as a crucial figure in African American history who made a lasting national impact as a poet, playwright, gospel music composer, orator and civil rights leader.
Viola Harris McFerren (1931–2013) was a civil rights activist in Fayette County, Tennessee.Born October 19, 1931, she went on to found the Fayette County Civic and Welfare League Inc., which was later called the Original Fayette Civic Welfare League Inc. [1] After attending a high school for African Americans in 1947, McFerren later become involved in desegregating public schools, with her ...
Stainback became a lawyer in Somerville. [2] He joined the Democratic Party, and attended the Democratic National Convention four times. [2] Stainback served as a member of the Tennessee Senate. [3] In 1955, he sponsored a bill to prevent the desegregation of public schools in Nashville in spite of Brown v. Board of Education. Officially, the ...
Homesick James was born in Somerville, Tennessee, United States, the son of Cordellia Henderson and Plez Williamson Rivers, who were both musicians. [4] The year of his birth is uncertain. He stated that he was born in 1905, [3] 1910, [1] or 1914, [5] while his union records give 1924. [3] His actual birth name has given as James Williamson or ...
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Fayette County was established by Tennessee General Assembly in 1824 from the neighboring counties of Shelby and Hardeman. [5] The same year, Somerville was selected as its county seat. The first churches in the county were the First Presbyterian Church in Somerville, established in 1829, and Immanuel Parish, established in 1832.