Description
Within the preparation of his opus, the writer had occasion to interview many survivors of the unique settlers of Sumner County.Cisco’s opus emphasizes the founder and foundation of Sumner County, and, in reality, the work is substantially genealogical in content. The primary fifty pages of the quantity move unexpectedly over such topics as early exploration of the county, local topography, territorial laws and officials, early land owners, and, in fact, Sumner County Within the wars, particularly the Civil War. Thereafter, the work makes a speciality of Sumner County pioneers and their families in a series of genealogical and biographical sketches of varying lengths, a few of them illustrated.