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In 1988, the Home increased the number of children served under its direction by merging with another churches of Christ-related ministry, West Tennessee Children's Home. Continued growth in its service area occurred again in 2000 and 2001 through mergers with Happy Hills Youth Ranch near Ashland City, Tennessee and East Tennessee Christian ...
The Tennessee Children's Home Society was chartered as a non-profit corporation in 1897. [2] In 1913, the Secretary of State granted the society a second charter. [2] The Society received community support from organizations that supported its mission of "the support, maintenance, care, and welfare of white children under seven years of age admitted to [its] custody."
Camille Kelley (née McGee; October 13, 1879 – January 28, 1955) was an American juvenile court judge and author. She was investigated by the state of Tennessee for using her judgeship to aid Georgia Tann's ongoing adoption fraud operation conducted under the auspices of the Tennessee Children's Home Society and resigned shortly after this information became public.
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[4] For nearly 30 years in the mid-20th century, all of the children born to women institutionalized at Western State sent to child trafficker Georgia Tann's Tennessee Children's Home Society. Many of the patients who died at the hospital were buried in various cemeteries dotted around the campus. [4]
English: Nineteen of the many children who died at the Tennessee Children's Home Society home under the care of Georgia Tann in the early 20th century were buried in a 14x13 lot at the historic Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee) with no headstones. In 2015, the cemetery raised $13,000 to erect this monument to their memory.
In 1950, a second campus was opened in Memphis, and in 1954 one followed in Chattanooga. By the 1950s, most of the children in residence were from homes in crisis, not orphans, so board members decided in 1953 to rename the ministry to more accurately reflect its work—Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes. The TBCH does not accept government ...
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