Category: About Us

• 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.

  Trix’s Trax

  November 8, 2025

  About Us, Stories Beneath the Stones

  African American, Alexandria, cemeteries, Cemetery, Chapel, dekalb, family, genealogy, history, preservation, travel

• Remembering Alexandria’s Civil War Past: A Tale of Two Colonels

  

  Divided by war, united in memory—Alexandria’s Civil War story lives on through Confederate and Union leaders buried side by side, freed communities rising in Cedar Hill, and a young W.E.B. Du Bois teaching nearby.

  Trix’s Trax

  May 20, 2025

  About Us

  African American, Alexandria, books, cemeteries, Cemetery, Chapel, civil-war, dekalb, genealogy, history, military, preservation, travel

• The Beginnings of Alexandria, Tennessee

  

  Alexandria, founded in 1806 by Daniel Alexander in Tennessee, became part of DeKalb County in 1837. Early records indicate a thriving community, eventually growing to 380 residents by 1854. Despite challenges like floods and a devastating fire in 1906, Alexandria’s historical legacy continues through its architecture and notable residents.

  Trix’s Trax

  May 14, 2025

  About Us, Main Page

  Alexandria, ancestry, architecture, dekalb, family-history, genealogy, history, Tennessee