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–Word
Biblical Commentary, Vol. 47(A) Hebrews 1-8; Vol. 47(B) Hebrews 9-13, 1991
–Call
to Commitment: Responding to the Message of Hebrews, 1985
–Highlights
of the Bible: the New Testament, 1980
–Righteousness, 1978
–The
New International Commentary of the Gospel According to Mark (introduction, exposition, and notes),
1974
–Righteousness
in Christ, (with E.M.
Blaiklock), 1973
–Ephesians,
Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians (Scripture Union Bible study books),
1969
–The
New Testament Speaks (with Glenn W. Barker and J. Ramsey Michaels), 1969
Marcene Larkin was born and educated
in Wichita, Kansas. After college, she taught school, married, and lived in
eight states. Two gifts in her life were her two adopted children. When the
children were seven and ten, she realized the questions children find hard to
ask, so she wrote a book to help children and parents discuss issues. The book
led to some workshops. Larkin moved to
–Why Me? An Adoption Story, 1980
Joe Lassus, a Tulane history major,
came to Brentwood in 1999 as the Planning and Codes Director. The City of Brentwood
was pleased to find a person with both a master’s degree in urban planning and
a strong sense of history. The City commissioned a book about Brentwood during
the Civil War that was completed by Lassus. In doing related research he was
able to find Union soldiers’ letters and sketches of fortifications around the
familiar bridges and railroad lines of the community. Lassus lives in
Thompson’s Station.
–Brentwood
Tennessee: A Crossroads of the Civil War, 2002
Born in Iowa, Ardi Lawrence studied
fashion design in New York City. She has made her home in the Nashville area,
including Brentwood and Franklin, since 1954. She founded the Fashion
Merchandising Program at O’More School of Design, has edited corporate
publications and The Tennessee
Conservationist, and has written travel and human-interest articles for
many publications.
–Natural
Wonders of
–Natural
Wonders of Kentucky: Exploring Wild and Scenic Places, 1999
–Daytrippers’
Guide to the Natural Wonders of
–Natural
Wonders of
Dr. Felix Lawrence was born on Lawrence Road at the home of his
grandfather, Felix. He grew up in rural Williamson County. His father, Elijah,
like his grandfather, was a respected land-owning farmer. Dr. Lawrence
graduated from Natchez High School and Tennessee State University where he met
his wife. He then studied dentistry and completed his internship at Meharry
Medical College. From there he went to Boston University where he received his
Ph.D. in Oral Surgery Pathology. His career was spent in Oak Park, Illinois,
where he served as Director of the Oral Surgery Program of the University of
Illinois for thirteen years and then for Loyola of Illinois. Semi-retired, he
and his wife moved back to Williamson County, where Dr. Lawrence opened a
practice in Franklin.
–Lesions of the Jaw
Bone (with others), 1983
An avid hunter, fisherman, traveler,
and photographer, H. Lea Lawrence was born in Hammond, Indiana. After
graduating from East Tennessee State University, he has been a newspaper reporter,
feature writer, columnist, chief of public relations for the Tennessee Game and
Fish Commission, and co-editor of The
Tennessee Conservationist. He has also been active in Outdoor Writers’
Association of America, National Rifle Association, Safari Club International,
and Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association.
–The
Ultimate Guide to Small Game and Varmint Hunting, 2002
–The
Ultimate Guide to Bowhunting, 2002
–A
Hemingway Odyssey: Special Places in His Life, 1999
–Natural
Wonders of
–The
Fly Fisherman’s Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
1998
–The
Outdoor Photographer's Bible (with Aubrey Watson), 1997
–Natural
Wonders of Tennessee (with Ardi Lawrence), 1994
–The
Small Game and Varmint Hunter’s Bible, 1994
–The
Archer’s and Bowhunter’s Bible, 1993
–Prowling
Papa’s Waters: A Hemingway Odyssey,
1992
Joyce Lee is originally from Kansas City, Missouri. She has lived in Franklin with her family since 1973. She is a full time writer of fiction and poetry.
–The Length of a Love Song, 2005
Born in Tennessee, Martha Lee grew up
in central Florida and graduated from Florida State College for Women in 1940.
She moved to the Lee family farm in Williamson County with her husband, John,
where they raised four children. Active in community life, she wrote her
memoirs for her children only, but published them after encouragement from
friends.
–My Last Word, 1995
Except for a year of study in Denmark and four years of teaching at Tokyo Joshi Daigaku (Tokyo Woman’s Christian College) in Japan, Sally Lee has lived in Middle Tennessee on a family farm. Interests in literature and folklore led her to create family documents of some length, incorporating family legends and histories, not genealogy. Occasionally, she has done this type of collection for other families, as well as her own. She has also written poetry in various styles.
–Beechville--Then, Now, and In Between, 2006
–Granny Lindy (with Margaret Killiffer Harris), 2005
–Out of Obscurity, 2000
–The Poets of St. Paul’s (contributing editor), 2000
Stricken with polio as a baby, Susie Lee grew up in drastic circumstances. She was a child in China during the Japanese occupation and an older teenager in Korea during the Korean War. Immigrating to America as a young woman, she married, lived in Alaska and New York, and had two children. Surgery on her withered leg was successful and in her pleasure at seeming normal, she became a vocational rehabilitation counselor. In recent years she moved to Franklin to be with her daughter. Her book is an autobiography.
–Daughter of Mercy, 2000
Julie C. Liske was born and raised in rural Appalachia and currently lives in Thompson's Station. She is a clinical dental hygienist and has written articles based on her knowledge of this field. In 2000, she became the mother of a child with severe autism. Living in a remote area with no resources for intervention, by necessity, she designed and implemented a successful home-based behavioral program.
–In the Eye of the Hurricane: Finding Peace Within the Storm of Autism, 2006
Williamson County native T. Vance
Little has an extensive knowledge of the county and its lore. An attorney by
profession, he has for many years served as historian for the City of
Brentwood. His education includes two degrees from Vanderbilt University and
graduate work at Northwestern University and Cambridge University in England.
He has served as chairman of the Williamson County Bicentennial Commission,
Brentwood Homecoming ’86 Commission, Brentwood Historical Commission, and
Trustees of the Endowment for the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee
Antiquities. Little has been president of the Carnton Association and
Williamson County Historical Society, as well as holding offices in many other
societies interested in historical issues. He has been honored as the Heritage
Foundation’s “Patron of the Year,” Brentwood’s “Citizen of the Year,” and
“Volunteer of the Year.” He received the Williamson County Historical Society’s
Distinguished Service Award and Leadership Brentwood’s Civic Award. In 1997,
Little was inducted into the Williamson County Authors’ Hall of Fame.
–When
Cotton was King on Concord Road: A History of Brentwood
Subdivisions, 1999
–Historic
Nolensville Cemetery, 1998
–Murder
on the Wilson Pike, 1996
–Granny
White and Her Pumpkins and Other Tales of Brentwood, 1993
–History
of the Brentwood United Methodist Church, 1991
–Historic
Brentwood, 1985
–Legal
Terms for the Genealogist, 1980
–Williamson
101, 1970, revised and republished as Early
Families of Northeastern Williamson County, 1996
–The
Hunts of Tennessee, 1969
Elizabeth Reid Lovell was born in
Pinson, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
and also received a Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University in New
York. She moved to Franklin in 1950. Lovell was a public health nurse for forty
years, was assistant director of nursing of the Tennessee State Health
Department, and was President of the Tennessee Public Health Association. She
has been a member of the Old Glory chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution and of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was a recipient
of the Legends Award. Lovell has continued to write.
–Something Real Pretty, but…, 2003
–Four Little Boys, 1993
–Home Visits in Tennessee by Public Health
Nurses, 1983
After growing up in Nashville,
Lovell moved to Fairview and later to Franklin. She had written poetry as a
child, and after a year of coping with the injury and death of loved ones, she
found her feelings emerging in poetic form. When she shared a poem
entitled "Battered Women" with the YWCA, she was encouraged to share
other poems and to publish. Her volume is comprised of devotional poems
accompanied by related commentaries. In addition to her poetry, she has written
and sold for a Christian greeting
card company.
--Arise and Shine, 1996
Luttrell
Constance O. (1943 - )
Connie
Luttrell grew up in the Nashville area and went to the University of Chattanooga
(UTC) where she majored in business and minored in theater. She married, began
raising a family, and at some point re-entered the work world in a series of
positions which led to her current expertise as a Registered Financial
Consultant. During these years, she also became a
single mother of three with a need to handle family finances in a serious way.
Her positions have been administrative assistant in the College of Arts and
Sciences at Vanderbilt, legal assistant at a local law firm, then into real
estate, and finally working in the investment and insurance arena. Connie was
invited to be a contributor to several sections of this book’s extensive look at
estate planning. The book research focuses on the most important questions that
clients ask with answers that give help to create meaningful road maps to
clients' wishes about the distribution of their estates.
Louise Lynch was born and reared in Williamson
County. She was the first woman in Tennessee to be foreman of a grand jury. She
has devoted herself to genealogical research. Lynch established the Williamson
County Archives as a major resource for research, first as a volunteer and then
as the director of a growing and important collection of historical documents.
In 1981, she was named the Lady of the Year by Xi Alpha Sigma Chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi. She was the winner of the 1985 Distinguished Service Award by the
Williamson County Historical Society. In 2002 she was awarded the Jane Langston
Service Award “for outstanding
contributions to the cause of the written word in Williamson County.”
–Williamson
County Tennessee, Deed Books C, D, and E, 1992
–Miscellaneous
Records, Williamson County, Tennessee, Vols.
1–9, 1973, 1992
–Williamson
County, Tennessee, Deed Books A-1, A-2, and B,
Vol. 1, 1992
–Excerpts
from Newspapers, Williamson County, Tennessee, 1822–1835, 1985
–Survey
and Entry Book, 1824–1902, 1985
–The
Martin-Barnhill Families (with Susan Roberson), 1985
–Death
Records of Bedford County, Tennessee (compiled), 1984
–Death
Records of Williamson County, Tennessee (compiled). 1983
–Middle
Tennessee Crossroads, Vols. 1–5, 1981
–1840
Census of Williamson County, 1980
–Rutherford
County, Tennessee, Record book A, No. 1, 1804-1814, 1980
–Williamson
County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1851–1879, 1979
–Cemetery
Records of Smith County, Tennessee,
1978
–Early
Obituaries of Williamson County, Tennessee (abstracted), 1977
–Our
Valiant Men, 1976
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–Directory
of Williamson County, Tennessee, Burials, Vols. 1 and 2, 1973, 1975
–Tax
Book I, Williamson County, Tennessee 1800–1813, 1971
–Record
Book, Letters of Administration, No. 1, 1838–1855, (abstracted), 1971
–Wills
and Inventories of
–Bible
Records, Williamson County, Vols. 1 and 2, 1800–1818, 1970
–Cemetery
Records, Williamson County, Tennessee
(with Volena Wheatley Hays), 1969
Charles Lynn spent his childhood in
Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He attended several colleges in the U.S. and traveled
abroad where he studied at Hebrew University in Israel. He then lived and
traveled in the Middle East for twenty-two years. Then he returned to his
family roots in Tennessee and made Williamson County his home because he found
it to be such a creative community.
–Why the Nations Rage, 2003
–Healing the Land (with Winkie Pratez),
1993
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