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  Sumner County EMS :: A System To Save Lives
The county seat is Gallatin, named after Albert Gallatin who was the Secretary of the Treasury under President Madison.
Sumner County is rich in heritage and has raised many to become leading citizens across the world
Sumner EMS is also an "A" rated service by the state of Tennessee, which is the highest available.
www.sumner-ems.org   (134 words)

  
 Sumner County, Part 1
The boundaries of the county were defined by the Legislature of 1867, and on May 27, 1868, a treaty was made with the Indians, and 8,000,000 acres of land sold to the L., L. & G Railway.
The county is bounded on the east by Cowley County, south by the State line and Indian Territory, west by Harper and Kingman, and north by Sedgwick County.
The principal water courses are the Arkansas and Ninnescah rivers, the former cutting across the northeast corner of the county, and the latter running from near the north-central line of the county to its confluence with the Arkansas at Oxford.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/sumner/sumner-co-p1.html   (4047 words)

  
 Sumner County Tennessee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The population was sufficient by 1786 to establish a county, which was named after Colonel Jethro Sumner, an officer of the Revolution.
Sumner County was created on November 17, 1786, from the eastern part of Davidson County and is the second-oldest county in Middle Tennessee.
As we are about to learn a lot of our ancestors ended up in the soon to be Sumner County in the later part of the 18th century and the early 19th century: the Latimers (descendants from the Denisons and the Brewsters of Mayflower fame), the Hamiltons, and the Brigances.
home.earthlink.net /~willpaz/Hamilton/sumnercountytennessee.htm   (1509 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Sumner City continued to flourish during the cattle drives of 1871 and until the final location of the county seat April 19, 1872.
There was no choice for county seat and pending the second election, which was to be held in November, the citizens of Wellington took a wagon and went to Meridian to take possession of the county records.
It is bounded on the north by Sedgwick county; on the east by Cowley; on the south by the State of Oklahoma, and on the west by Harper and Kingman counties.
www.ausbcomp.com /~bbott/wortman/People_and_Families/SumnerCounty&City.htm   (5205 words)

  
 History of The USS Sumner County (LST-1148)
Sumner County had her annual overhaul at San Diego during January and February 1958 which was followed by refresher and amphibious training exercises prior to her forthcoming deployment.
Sumner County sailed to Hawaii from 20 January to 17 February and participated in Exercise "Silver Lance." She was at San Diego for one day and ordered to sail for Hawaii on 18 February.
Sumner County was only away from her home port from 17 May to 11 June 1967 when she transported 100 marines and cargo to Hawaii.
www.mrfa.org /lst_1148.htm   (1333 words)

  
 The Hendersonville Star News - Local News
Visitors coming to Sumner County added 6 percent more to the county’s coffers during the 2002-03 fiscal year and during the first six months of this year tourism spending is up 5 percent over the previous year.
County Tourism Director Randy Cline said the most important factor in the county’s rising tourism rate is the way people are traveling today.
Bringing tourism to Sumner County has not been an easy task, first because there were limited hotel, motel and restaurant services in the county.
www.hendersonvillestarnews.com /news/stories/20040121/tourism.shtml   (582 words)

  
 Sumner County TN, Sumner County Tennessee
Sumner County is located just north of Nashville, Tennessee, and it runs north to the Kentucky border.
Sumner County is a great place to live, to work or to visit.
The Sumner County Archives is the official depository for the records of Sumner County and also the official research center for the county.
www.sumnertn.com   (493 words)

  
 Sumner County Archives - Homepage
Sumner County was formed in 1786 and most records survive from that date.
The Archives is the official depository and research facility for county records and operates under Tennessee State law and the direction of the Sumner County Public Records Commission.
While the county funds two full time employee positions, the Archives' operating budget is derived primarily from the sale of copies of documents and the volunteer efforts of many local people.
www.sumnertn.org /archives   (334 words)

  
 Sumner County Website
Sumner County is comprised of 30 townships and 9 incorporated cities, Argonia, Belle Plaine, Caldwell, Conway Springs, Geuda Springs, Hunnewell, Mayfield, Milan, Oxford, South Haven, and Wellington.
The County is 36 miles wide from east to west borders and approximately 33 miles from north to south.
As of the 2000 Census, the population of Sumner County was 25,946.
www.co.sumner.ks.us   (521 words)

  
 The News Examiner - Local News
In the future, Sumner County lawmakers would like to govern whether citizens can light up inside restaurants or be forced to take their smoking to the curb.
The Sumner County Commission recently approved a resolution asking the Tennessee General Assembly to repeal the state law that prohibits local governments from enacting legislation on tobacco regulation.
Specifically, the county is seeking the power to adopt local laws and ordinances restricting the purchase and use of tobacco products by minors and promoting clean air in buildings.
www.gallatinnewsexaminer.com /news/stories/20050309/tobacco.shtml   (728 words)

  
 Sumner County, Part 6
In the year 1871, he came to Independence, Kansas, then to Wellington, Sumner County, in May, 1872, and began the practice of law, and continued until 1876, at which time he was elected Register of Deeds.
He then returned to McDonough County, Ill., and practiced law until the fall of the same year, when he was elected to the office of County Judge, in which capacity he served until 1869.
Winn is a stockholder in the Agricultural Association of Sumner County.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/sumner/sumner-co-p6.html   (4527 words)

  
 Sumner County, KS
In honor of Charles Sumner, the distinguished Massachusetts Senator.  In 1854 he was a leader in the opposition to extension of slavery into Kansas, as proposed in the Bill to organize the territory.
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was an abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts most famous for being severely beaten for his beliefs.
Early interest in the county was driven by the economic oppportunities offered by the herds of cattle coming up the Chisholm trail from Texas.
skyways.lib.ks.us /counties/SU   (563 words)

  
 Genealogical Publishing: Genealogy, Family History, Ancestry, Genealogy books
Sumner County, Tennessee was created from Davidson County in 1786 and was itself the parent county of Smith and Wilson counties.
Jay Guy Cisco's monograph on Sumner County was assembled from a series of articles that the author had published in the Nashville American in 1907 and that he subsequently revised and expanded for this book.
Thereafter, the work focuses on Sumner County pioneers and their families in a series of genealogical and biographical sketches of varying lengths, some of them illustrated.
www.genealogical.com /item_detail.asp?ID=9717&AFID=1458   (216 words)

  
 Sumner County Register of Deeds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sumner County is the eighth largest county in Tennessee.
We are the eighth largest county in Tennessee.
The Sumner County Register's Office is equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
www.deeds.sumnercounty.org   (259 words)

  
 The Hendersonville Star News - Local News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
One of the bills will honor Sumner County Sheriffs Detective David Mandrell who was killed during an undercover operation on June 28, 1988 in rural Robertson County.
The other bill is to honor the late Leon Shoulders who served Sumner County as a county commissioner for nearly half a century.
Mandrell, an 11-year veteran of the Sumner County Sheriff’s Department at the time of his death, was raised and educated in Westmoreland.
www.hendersonvillestarnews.com /news/stories/20050209/mcdonald.shtml   (481 words)

  
 SRMC | History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sumner Regional Medical Center (SRMC) has been providing quality health care to Sumner County and the surrounding areas for more than 45 years.
Since opening in 1959 as Sumner County Memorial Hospital, SRMC has grown from a facility with just 50 employees and seven physicians to a comprehensive health care leader in the community with more than 1,000 employees and 165 physicians.
Since 1994, SRMC has served as the flagship hospital of the non-profit health care entity, Sumner Regional Health Systems, Inc. SRMC is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and is governed by a local board of directors.
www.sumner.org /About/history.html   (249 words)

  
 Kansas - Sumner County Genealogical Society
Sumner County genealogists and historicans moved books from storage to the new Chisholm Trail History and Family Center on March 10, 2001, and researchers stop each week at the Chisholm Trail History and Family Center.
Centrally located in the county as well, for an easy drive to cemeteries, towns, or your family's farm or homestead.
And just in case someone else is looking for you and your family, leave your query on the queries page and be sure and add your name to the surname list before you go.
www.rootsweb.com /~ksscgs   (548 words)

  
 WILSON COUNTY TENNESSEE
Wilson County was established by an act of the Third General Assembly of the State of Tennessee on October 26, 1799, three years after the organization of the state itself.
The county was named in honor of Major David Wilson, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Sumner County while it was yet a part of North Carolina.
The 2000 Census by the U.S. Census Bureau gives Wilson County a total population of 88,809 broken down by the following: Lebanon - 20,235, Mt. Juliet - 12,366 (according to their 2003 special census Mt. Juliet had grown to 15,610) and Watertown - 1,358, with the remaining living in the county, outside of city limits.
www.wilsoncountytn.com   (164 words)

  
 Sumner County Gallatin, Tennessee (Counties)
The county seat of Sumner County, Tennessee, is Gallatin.
The county population on July 1, 1999, was 126,009, an increase of 22,728 over the 1990 census.
Gallatin is located in Sumner County (of which it is the county seat) northeast of Nashville along...
www.ohwy.com /tn/y/y47165.htm   (146 words)

  
 The Willerford Family Line: Second Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
According to SUMNER County records, Alfred Williford and Mary Perkins were married by James McGlothlin.
His children, however, are listed in the Sumner County US Census and scattered in nearby homes of what appears to be unrelated families.
William Williford was born in SUMNER, TN 1841.
home.earthlink.net /~boydralp/HTML/WILIFORD/d0/i0000054.htm   (993 words)

  
 Sumner County, Kansas
Because of the difficulty of reading the handwriting and the uniqueness of some of the census takers' spelling, it may be more productive to take a look at the actual census rather than doing a search.
If you have found photos relating to Sumner County and want to return them to their families, contact me at hoisingtonweb@yahoo.com.
Not all the citizens of Sumner County were good guys....
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/sumner   (418 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Sumner County, Kan.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
The intent is to locate places according to current county names and boundaries.
Any corrections to county locations would be greatly appreciated.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/KS/SU.html   (483 words)

  
 Sumner County Museum Pictures of LST-1148 by Jerry Howe
One of the major additions was the addition of two additional LCVP's, as the USS Sumner County had four of them.
When the crew reunions are held here in Sumner County, the crewmembers can point to where their assigned station was when they served on her to wives, family, and other crewmembers.
The model display is 15 inches wide, 17 inches tall, and 52 inches long being mounted on a base and covered by a Plexiglas cover.
www.badshipmodels.com /sumnercountymuseum.html   (560 words)

  
 Habitat for Humanity of Sumner County TN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Habitat for Humanity of Sumner County TN, Inc. is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry.
Began in 1993 and chartered in 1994, the first year was spent in organizing and fund-raising efforts.
Habitat for Humanity of Sumner County is always looking for people who can devote time and effort to helping those who are in need.
www.habitatsumnercounty.org   (233 words)

  
 Porter Cemetery, Zyba, Sumner County, Kansas
Wife of George M. Anthony who was born in 1872.
Born at Newbigin in Teesdale, County of Durham, England.
Husband of Mary J. Nixon who was born in 1863.
www.accessgenealogy.com /cemetery/kansas/sumner/porter.htm   (83 words)

  
 Sumner County, Tennessee Genealogists Companion
The above map from 1882 places Sumner County, Tennessee between the following Tennessee county's; Robertson to the west, Davidson to the southwest, Wilson to the southeast, and Macon and Trousdale to the east.
Northward lies the state of Kentucky where Sumner County borders to the northeast with Allen and to the northwest Simpson County.
The county seat is Gallatin which was named after Albert Gallatin, who was the secretary of the treasury under President James Madison.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~providence/ourpage.html   (509 words)

  
 Sumner County Young Democrats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sumner County Young Democrats purpose is to pursue the ideas of liberty, justice, freedom for all regardless of race, religion, or sex.
Sumner County Young Democrats membership is open to any Sumner County resident between the ages of 13 and 40.
We are chartered and affiliated with the Tennessee Young Democrats, and with the Young Democrats of America.
www.sumnerdems.org /scyd   (139 words)

  
 Chisholm Trail History and Genealogy Center
The Center is two blocks from the Sumner County Courthouse and the Chisholm Trail Museum and around the corner from the Wellington Public Library.
In August of 2001, the boards members of the Sumner County Historical Society and the Sumner County Genealogical Society voted to merge the two groups.
If your ancestor settled in Sumner County prior to 1900 you are eligible for a Pioneer Certificate.
www.rootsweb.com /~kscthgc/cthgc.htm   (636 words)

  
 Sumner County, Tennessee Genealogy
Sumner County is located in Middle Tennessee, one of the state's three "grand divisions."
It was formed in 1786 from Davidson County and is the second-oldest county in Middle Tennessee.
The Sumner Co. TNGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence.
www.rootsweb.com /~tnsumner   (566 words)

  
 Fall 2000
Together history and archaeology allow scholars to include more specific considerations of ethnic diversity, the nature of the frontier economy, the foundations of race and class relationships, and the impacts of global conflict among European and Native American nations on this frontier society.
Anthony Bledsoe notes that the settlers were “driven to stations and fortifications leaving their property exposed to the savage.” Anthony Bledsoe to Governor Caswell of North Carolina by letter dated May 12, 1786, North Carolina Records, vol.
James Gwin, who moved to Sumner County in 1790, indicates that “at that time, the people of this country were generally shut up in stations and block houses...” James Douglas Anderson, The Historic Blue Grass Line, (Nashville, 1913), 9.
www.tennesseehistory.org /Publications/Fall-2000/bledsoe_station.htm   (6581 words)

  
 Hendersonville Tennessee - City Web Site - Hendersonville TN - Sumner County TN
Sumner County Pupil Transportation is pleased to announce the release of its new Web Query system.
These maps are very useful for people who want to know which areas of the county are served by individual schools.
Come by the Humane Society of Sumner County at 16 Volunteer Drive, Hendersonville or visit on the internet at www.sumnerhumane.org.
www.hendersonvilletn.com   (1002 words)

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