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Waldrop, C. Sybil
Walker, Arthur L.
Wall, Paula
Waller, Mary Webb
Warwick, Richard
Watkins, Kate Sullivan
Wellington, Sam
Wells,
Ed
Wells, William W.
White, Katie
Kinnard
Wibking, Tim
Widick, Sylvia
Harney
Wills, Ridley, II
Wilson, Etta
Grissim
Wilson, Jack Case
Windrow, John Edwin
Wolfe, Bill
Womack, Steven
Worley, Karla
Wyatt, Margaret Early
Wysockly, Lisa
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Waldrop, C. Sybil (1928- )
C. Sybil Waldrop, a native of
Louisiana, was a former manager of the preschool
curriculum section of the Baptist Sunday School Board. She received her B.A.
degree from Centenary
College, an M.E. and Ph.D. in education from the
University of
North Texas, and has done further graduate study at Scarritt
College in
Nashville. She has taught in the public schools of
Texas and
New Mexico and at
Southeastern
College,
North
Texas
State
University, and
Eastern
Kentucky
University. She has written numerous articles for
professional periodicals both religious and secular.
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–Teaching Preschoolers the Bible, 1991
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–Getting Good at Being You, 1989, 2001
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–Guiding Your Child Toward
God, 1985
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–Understanding Today’s
Preschoolers, 1982
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Walker, Arthur L.
Arthur L. Walker was born in
Alabama and received his B.A. degree from Samford
University, his M.Div. at
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist
Theological Seminary. He taught at Samford, where he
was also dean of students and vice president of student affairs, at Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, where he was dean of students and director of
ministry training, and at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. From 1978
to 1993 he was executive director or treasurer of the Southern Baptist
Convention, Southern Baptist Commission of American Baptist Theological
Seminaries, and the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools.
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–Southern Baptist Trusteeship, 1993
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–By Their Fruits, 1982
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–Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, IV
(contributor), 1982
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–Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, III
(contributor), 1971
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Wall, Paula (1954- )
Paula Wall was born in
Clarksville,
Tennessee, but grew up in
Anchorage,
Alaska. She majored in environmental science at
Austin Peay
State
University
. She worked as an environmentalist, but
eventually became a full-time humorist with a nationally syndicated column for
Universal Press. She was named “Humor Columnist of the Year” in 1997 by the
National Society of Newspaper Columnists and was a semi-finalist for the 1999 Thurber Award. Her books have been translated into four
languages. If I Were a Man, I’d Marry
Me stayed on the (Humor) Best Sellers
List for twenty-seven weeks. She and the “Sweetie” of her column own land in Fernvale.
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–The Wilde Women,
2007
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–The Rock Orchard, 2005
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–If I Were a Man,
I'd Marry Me,
1999
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–My Love Is Free (But the Rest of Me Don’t
Come Cheap), 1997
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Waller, Mary Webb
Mary Webb Waller was raised in
Cookeville as one of nine siblings. She attended
the Putnam
County public schools and graduated from
David
Lipscomb
University. She taught in the school systems in
Putnam and Williamson
Counties before becoming a social worker in 1945.
She has lived in Brentwood.
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Warwick, Richard (1947- )
Born in
Anderson
County, Rick Warwick moved to
Williamson
County in 1970 and became librarian at
Hillsboro
School. A graduate of
Middle
Tennessee
State
University, he has been editor of the Williamson
County Historical Society’s annual journal for several years. He coordinated
and wrote many of the
Williamson County entries in the Bicentennial Tennessee Encyclopedia. He has
undertaken a four-volume work of Who’s Who in
Williamson
County based on interviews conducted by Jane
Owen between 1936 and 1953.
Warwick has unselfishly shared his growing
knowledge of the county’s history with all who seek it. He has also taken as a
project the documentation of
Williamson
County’s “material culture”—its furniture,
samplers, paintings, and other items—and has organized exhibits to share his findings.
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–Freedom
and Work in the Reconstruction Era: The Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts of
Williamson County, Tennessee, 2006
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–Meet Me at
Chapman’s Pie Wagon, 2002
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–Williamson
County: Out There in the First District, 2001
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–Williamson
County in Black and White,
(editor and compiler), 2000
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–Leiper’s Fork: Our Family
Album, 2000
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–Williamson
County in Black and White,
1999
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–Historical Markers
of
Williamson County,
Tennessee--A Pictorial Guide, 1999
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–Leiper's Fork &
Surrounding Communities, 1999
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–Letters to Laura, (with
Sadye Tune Wilson and
Nancy Tune Fitzgerald), 1997
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–Hillsboro
School,
100 Years, 1891–1991,
1991
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–A Century of Chairmakers
in
Williamson
County,
1850–1950, 1989
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Watkins, Kate Sullivan (1967-
)
Kate Sullivan Watkins was reared on
a farm in
Williamson
County. She graduated from
Franklin
High School and
David
Lipscomb
University. Before having her own children, she
taught elementary school. She has been an author and freelance creator of
activity pages with Dalmatian Press of Brentwood, which publishes children’s
materials. She and her husband Larry have been contributing editors to the
magazine Nashville Christian Family.
Her book A Craving for Life
describes her eleven-year struggle with bulimia.
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–Dooley the Dinosaur, 1997
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–The Ugly Duckling (retold), 1997
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–A Craving for Life, 1995
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Wellington, Sam
Franklin resident Sam Wellington was a member of The Fabulous Four Guys, a
country group that, prior to its retirement in 1999, was for thirty-two years a
member of the Grand Ole Opry. After service in the Navy, Wellington worked as a
newspaper reporter and as a radio and TV newscaster in the early 1960s. The
Fabulous Four Guys moved to Nashville in 1967.
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Wells, Ed
Ed Wells was born and reared in
Moline,
Illinois, on the banks of the
Mississippi River. He graduated from the
University of
Illinois. After taking an accounting
job, he found that the life of numbers was not for him. He accepted a
commission in the Air Force, embarking on a career that found him living in
many parts of the world. He retired after twenty years and came to
Williamson
County in 1977 to accept a
management position. He founded his own company and began to write.
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Wells, William W.
William W. Wells was born in
Nashville and is a graduate of
Vanderbilt
University. After serving in World War II, he was
recalled to active duty during the Korean War and served for two years as a
fighter pilot. His book cited below is a collection of more than 180 letters
that Wells wrote home to his family while he was taking fighter pilot training
in England. He was an escort for Joseph Kennedy Jr.’s secret mission when Kennedy’s plane exploded.
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White, Katie
Kinnard
Katie Kinnard
White not only was born, reared, and educated in
Williamson
County, but also reared her own
family here. She attended
Tennessee
State
University, majoring in biology, and
earned a Ph.D. at
Walden
University in science education. After
ten years in the public schools of Middle Tennessee, she became professor of
biological sciences at
Tennessee
State
University. In addition to church
history, she has written science laboratory manuals and a history of her
collegiate sorority. Her church is on the site of the old
Sunnyside
School near the Grassland
community.
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–From Whence We Came: the History of Greater Pleasant
View
Baptist
Church 1894-1999
(with George Northern), 1999
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–The Legacy Continues . . .
(with
Ann Lawrence-Brown, Evelyn Hood, and Lillie Wilkes),
1994
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–Biophysical Science Laboratory Manual (with other members of the faculty), 1978, 1981, 1989
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–Learning About Living Things for
the Elementary School (with Alfred
Aubry and Tillman Jackson), 1966
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–Learning About Our Physical World
for the Elementary School
(with Alfred Aubry
and Tillman Jackson), 1966
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Wibking, Tim
(1955- )
After growing up in
Clarksville, Tim Wibking
studied in
Switzerland and at
Murray
State
University before graduating from
Austin Peay
State
University. After receiving his degree from
University of Tennessee Law School, he served in the army JAG in
Germany. Later, he served as legal counsel for
the Tennessee School Boards Association. Struggles with childcare led Wibking and his wife, Dr. Janet Dittus,
to decide that he would stay at home with their son, Ben, for his early years.
His latest book relates experiences of father and son. Wibking
has written freelance articles on parenting and a weekly newspaper column
recounting his activities with Ben and Ben’s adopted sister from
China, Gabby. Wibking’s
writing is included in Our Voices,
1997 and 1998.
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–A Boy for All Seasons, 1996
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–The Public Education Law Handbook, 1989
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Widick,
Sylvia Harney
(see:
Harney, Sylvia)
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Wills, Ridley, II
Ridley Wills II is the great great-grandson
of William Giles Harding, owner of
Belle
Meade
Mansion in
Nashville, and a great-grandson of Judge Howell E.
Jackson, owner of West Meade. A graduate of
Vanderbilt
University, he majored in history and has taught
Nashville history to the public since 1985. He is
the son of Jesse Wills, poet and president of the National Life and Accident
Insurance Company. Wills is a member of a number of historical organizations
and lives at Meeting of the Waters, the
Williamson
County home of Nicholas Perkins.
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–Tennessee Governors at Home: Executive Residences of
Tennessee's First
Families, 1999
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–Old Enough to Die, 1996
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–Touring
Tennessee: A Postcard Panorama,
1898–1955, 1996
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–A Brief History of the YMCA of
Nashville
and Middle
Tennessee, 1996
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–A Walking Tour of
Mount
Olivet
Cemetery,
1993
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–The History of Belle Meade: Mansion,
Plantation,
& Stud, 1991
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–Belle Meade Bloodlines, 1816–1904, 1990
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Wilson, Etta
Grissim
Etta Wilson was born in
Lebanon, and spent her early years in
Wilson
County.
Her degrees are from the
University of
Tennessee, the
Presbyterian
School of Christian Education in
Richmond,
Virginia, and
Peabody’s
School of
Library Science. She has been editor of A Closer Look, a review publication for
Christian books and media, and also children’s book review editor for BookPage. She
owned March Media, which published Tennessee
Trailblazers, a collection of stories about famous characters in
Tennessee history. This book has been adopted for
use in elementary classes across
Tennessee. In addition to the books listed below,
she has written the text for about a dozen “smaller books.”
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–The Story of Easter, 1997
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–The Bible Encyclopedia, 1994
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–The Bible Dictionary, 1993
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–The Bible Atlas, 1993
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–Music in the Night, 1993
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–The Value of Excellence, 1991
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Wilson, Jack Case
Jack Case Wilson is a
fifth-generation native of
Mississippi. He received his B.A. degree from the
University of
Mississippi and an M.A. in classical archeology. He
attended Vanderbilt
University
Law
School and is a title attorney. While in
Oxford, he wrote the work
cited below, a history of
Oxford, Mississippi.
Wilson later moved to
Brentwood.
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Windrow, John Edwin (1899-1984)
Dr.
John Windrow was born in Eagleville in 1899. He attended Middle Tennessee State
Normal before he became a student a
Peabody
College in 1923. His association
with Dr. Leland Crabb began when Dr. Crabb piloted Dr. Windrow through his Ph.D. program. Dr.
Windrow held many positions at
Peabody during his fifty-five year
association with that school, including director of the
Peabody
Demonstration
School, editor of The Peabody Reflector, managing editor
of the Peabody Journal of Education,
and college archivist and historian. For many years he and Dr. Crabb worked together and shared a suite of offices. He and
his wife, the former Elizabeth Grigsby, are buried in the
Triune
Cemetery, and his obituary states
that he was at one time a resident of
Franklin.
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–Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb:
the Story of
Peabody as Reflected in Selected Writings of Alfred Leland
Crabb (editor), 1977
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–John Berrien Lindsey: Educator, Physician, Social
Philosopher, 1938
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–Life and Works of John Berrien Lindsey, 1937
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–Collins D. Elliott and the
Nashville
Female
Academy, 1935
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Wolfe, Bill
Bill Wolfe has been director of
radio ministries for United Methodist Communications in
Nashville and the executive producer/director for
the daily “Passages” radio program. He is a native of
Bristol and received his B.A. degree from King’s
College and his master of Christian education degree from the
Presbyterian
School of Christian Education in
Richmond,
Virginia. Wolfe has produced numerous films and
videotapes, as well as radio and television spots and programs. He has directed
projects for the United Methodist Board of Discipleship and was responsible for
customizing film programs for local churches and regional groups throughout the
country. Wolfe has written many articles and pamphlets in the areas of
broadcasting, youth ministry, and recreation. He was selected for the first Who’s Who in Religion (1975), as well as
the 1992 edition and the 1998–99 edition of Who’s
Who in Media and Communications. He has lived in
Williamson
County since 1971.
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–Inviting Youth, 1988
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–The Yearbook: Untold Stories (with
co-author Janita Williams), 1983
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–Leader’s Guide for The Yearbook (with
co-author Martha Wolfe), 1983
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–The Basic Encyclopedia for Youth Ministry
(with Dennis Benson), 1981
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–Music You Wear, 1975
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Womack, Steven
This
Nashville native has been a lifetime
writer. When an undergraduate at
Tulane
University, he had an unpublished novel
accepted as his honors thesis. He has written screenplays and mysteries and
contributes essays and short stories to various venues. Womack has been active
in writers’ organizations, speaking frequently on writers’ panels and at book
fairs. He has taught screen writing at
Watkins
Film
School and has often been guest
instructor for writers’ or screenwriters’ workshops. For several years, he led
a writers’ workshop at the Tennessee State Prison. He came to
Franklin in 2002.
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Worley, Karla (1956 - )
Influences on Karla Worley’s
childhood in
Dallas,
Texas, led directly to the talents she uses as an
adult. Her father and grandfather were Southern Baptist ministers; her mother
was a costume designer for several
Dallas theater companies. In
elementary school Karla began writing poetry and songs and staging her own
private plays. At
Baylor
University she majored in Musical
Theater and English. As an adult and wife of a minister, she has combined her
interests in God, music, and theater to produce many works for her church and
the public at large. She writes songs, dramatic productions, and books. She has
received three Dove Awards for songwriting from the Gospel Music Association.
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–Traveling
Together: Women, Friendship, and the Journey of Faith, 2003
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–Growing
Weary Doing Good: Encouragement for Exhausted Women, 2001, rev. 2003
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–Glimpses of
Christ in Everyday Lives, 1998
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–When the
Glass Slipper Doesn’t Fit (with Claire Coninger), 1992, updated 2003
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Wyatt, Margaret Early (1903-deceased)
Margaret Early Wyatt was born in
Nashville, three and one-half miles from the city
square. In 1927 she married Hubert Wyatt, and for many years the couple raised
trotting horses and lived in Wyatt Hall, an antebellum home north of
Franklin. In 1992 she published her autobiography
in a limited edition.
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Wysocky, Lisa
Energetic and full of interests,
Lisa Wysocky chose horse training as her first
profession. Twice she has made her home in
Fairview. When an injury stopped her
successful career, she turned to writing. After several years in journalism,
she opened her own public relations firm which attracts clients from a wide
variety of activities from music and medicine to thoroughbreds and non-profit
organizations. Even so, she has taken time to write. She has become a regular
featured guest on Jones Radio Networks syndicated overnight show and authored a
celebrity lifestyles column for
Ag Features.
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–The Power of
Horses, 2002
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–The Opium
Equation, 2002
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