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Deaf History in Tennessee |
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Year 1777 - Davy Crockett, not deaf, was a famous
soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo (1836). Anyway, he had an
uncle who was deaf; this deaf
uncle was captured by the Creek Indians in Year 1777 in Tennessee and
was held captive for 17 years! (that was before Davy was born). |
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| Year 1891(?) - Tennessee - James Mason (black,
hearing) established a school for black deaf, the Tennessee School for
the Colored Deaf and Dumb. |
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| Year 1927 - League for the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing began in 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee. [1927] |
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| THE STRAWBERRY PIE AND THE TOWN -- The
town Harriet, Arkansas, has been named after a deaf person - Harriet
Esther Anderson. She was the area postmistress, and when she passed
away, the area became a newly named town in her honor.
There is a sequel. It was just learned that Harriet's husband was not
deaf but knew sign language. He wanted to open a new post office in a
small Arkansas town. The postal service representative came over to look
over the town as a possible site. The representative and the
Andersons got together to talk business. It so happened that the
representative knew signs, making possible communications with the deaf
wife. Additionally, Harriet served a great strawberry pie that the
representative fell in love with. In appreciation he named the town, and
the new post office in honor of Harriet! See below an image |
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MDC goal "Mid-South
Community Center Service for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing" of
Memphis. Click here for more information. |
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South East Memphis Lion Club |
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NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF IN MARYLAND |
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KCD -
KNOXVILLE CENTER OF THE DEAF |
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Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf in Memphis and
here for
Tennessee |
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TENNESSEE
ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF |
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Deaf History
