The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-05-20
GILES COUNTY DAY.
It's Ceremonies and Incidents
Large Attendance.

our people. A very large delega.
ton of Giles countians participated
in the ceremonies. We copy be
low the proceedings as published in
the American:
Yesterday was designated as
Giles County Day, it having been
set aside by the Board OF managers
of the Exposition, at the request OF
its citizens, for ceremonies over the
planting of three trees, VIII CHI was
done some time ago, in honor of
Cows. Aaron ", Neil 5. and John
c. Brown, all elected from that
county. Consequently three hun
dred citizens OF Giles county, led
by Solon E. Rose, esq, visited our
city and the Exposition yesterday.
Included in this number were 90
pupils of Martin Female College, in
charge of Prof. w. K. Jones.
At 3 P. NJ, all the machinery in
the building was tempoi arlly stop
ped in order to permit the ceremo-
MES TO take place in the exposition
building After few choice airs
from the Columbia Helicon Band,
President Atchisor, of the Centen-
NAL Board of Directors, stepped
f, forward and said:
Fellow citizens of Giles: In the
name Of the Board OF Centennial
Directors l welcome you to this
art treasury replete with mysteri
Gus symbols OF power and genius
and beauty. | welcome you TO the
city of Nashville to rejoice in our
Centennial; L welcome you to our
hospiGalities; l welcome you to our
cordial, fraternal ana brotherly
greeting.
The speaker then introduced So
lon E. Rose, of Giles county, who
read the following letter of presen-
tation:
To the President and Directors
of the Historical Society Gentle
men: Hon. James McCallum,a author
of the Early History of Giles Coun.
ty," who owing to his feeble state
OF health, cannot present in person
his manuscripts, has requested that
l shall deliver them to the Historical
Society.
Mr.. McCallum is more familiar
with the past history Of Giles than
any other man now living, and al
though past seventy yesrs of age
was eminently qualified to perform
the task. He Is. a thorough schol-
ar, ready and terse writer, and
The history of the early settlement
of Giles county is as complete as the
lapse of time would permit.
Mr.. McCallum was long Clerk
and Master in Chancery at Pulaski,
member OF the Legislature of Ten
nessee of 1861, and a member OF
the Confederate Congress- citi-
zen of Giles county for more than
seventy years, and long an active
practicing attorney in the several
courts of the state. These several
positions, together with his peculiar
adaptation, afforded him facilities
lew possessed, to write this history.
l should fail to discharge the
obligations of my mission if l did
not testify, on behalf of our people,
TO the social worth of james
McCallum. A Christian gentleman,
a model In all the relations OF life,
who has now the ardent admira-
ton of all who have known him,
whose broad sympathies, active
charities and social virtues are at
tested by the warm friendship and
"a of
friends, and now to life Of useful
ness he has added this additional
service of transmitting the history
to posterity.
Giles may have had more illustrI-
Gus men, but none more hUnored
and beloved. SCION E. ROSE.
In this connection he said that
he also desired to present the draw
ing of map made by Gen. Robert
son and friend in 1907, showing all
the lands of the State and the res
eryations of various tribes of In
dians-a map most beautifully exc
cuted by member of the faculty
of Martin Female College-Miss
Bette Burgess.
A char IO2 years old was also
presented to the Tenn essee Histor-
ical Society by Mrs. A. A. Linds
ley, of Giles county. The follow
ing history of The chair, taken from
the Pulaski Herald, accompanied
1t:
Mrs. A. A. Lindsey, of Giles
county. has chair which has a
remarkable history. 1t was made
in the celebrated Buchanan's Fort
by an amateur mechanic in 177S. 1t
was made for Mrs. Lindsley's
grandfather, John Thomas, who
was so much afflicted with asthma
that he could not lie down, and &C
tually died in this chair. Alter
peace was made with the Indians
Col. Joseph Brown, Mrs. Lindsley's
father, removed with his family to
what is now know as Maury coun-
ty, taking the chair with him, and
at his death, which occurred at Mrs.
Lindsley's home, she fell heir to it.
A NUN Der OF persons have died in
the chair, and it has been used by
a great many invalids during the.
long time of its existence. Col
Brown used it continually up to the
time of his DEATH"
This venerable relic is strong
and serviceable with the same set
of white oak splits which were frs
put into it.
Col. Rose then proceeded to the
ceremony of dedicating the stone
and trees, referred to above. His
Grafton can be found complete in
another part of the CITIZEN.
Gen. G. p. Thurston said that in
behalf of the Tennessee Historical
Society, he would respond to the
generous gift of Giles county and
the very appropriate remarks of MIR.
Rose. The celebration of Nash
vllle's centennial was one of the out
growths of the Tennessee Histori
cal Society. They welcomed the
young men and fair daughters of
Giles county and wished to express
their gratitude to them for having
brought the history OF Giles coun
ty and other antique works tor pre-
servation by the Historical Society.
This sOcietv had long been iQenJi-