My mom's family is from Athens TN. In fact, my mother and father are buried there. I still have tons of relatives there and spent a good deal of my childhood there. I have never heard of this until now.
I still have two aunts that live there that would have actually been alive during that time. I will have to talk to them and see what they remember about it. My mother's brother was a WWII Navy Veteran there but he has been gone for quite a few years.
The main topic of conversation I remember from the family there was of the Civil War. They were still having difficulties coming to the terms of that there during my childhood/teen years.
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