Month: November 2025
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A Tribute to George W. Corley
Ria has collected significant historical items from Alexandria, DeKalb, and Tennessee, emphasizing the value of ordinary moments over celebrity. This story of George W. Corley highlights his life’s changes, community service, and resilience through hardship, illustrating his legacy of integrity and joy, encouraging reflection on how to navigate life’s challenges.
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Lifting the First Stones, Lifting Their Names at Seay Chapel’s Black Cemetery
Three slightly obsessed souls, a homemade tripod, and a hill of almost-forgotten burials: at Seay Chapel we scrub stone, lift names, and fight gravity, proving a small crew with a crazy dedication to the dead can still change how a community remembers its own before they vanish beneath silence.
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William Bell Bates – Alexandria’s ties to the Allison Murder’s – Part 3
After the public hanging of Jo and Teek Brassell on Billy Goat Hill in Cookeville on 27 March 1878, Putnam County slowly returned to normal. After the conclusion of Bates’ second trial in March 1879, DeKalb County made its slow progress back to normal. The interest in both cases died down, and those intimately involved…
Alexandria Historic Cemeteries District 