A Short History Of One Of Shelby’s Early Families

Wallace Wooten’s passing marks 137 years of his family’s presence in this community In 1888, the Mississippi Delta was a muddy, undeveloped swampland, only just beginning to be cleared for farmland and orchards. Abner Wooten, a young man coming of age in Memphis, TN, was hired to travel up and down the railroad, a beautifully illustrated […]

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