http://jackneely.com/wordpress/2015/01/08/obamas-knoxville-visit/ The Scruffy Citizen Thu, 02 Jul 2015 21:04:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://jackneely.com/wordpress/2015/01/08/obamas-knoxville-visit/#comment-64 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 00:44:58 +0000 http://jackneely.com/wordpress/?p=115#comment-64 Mr. Obama does have a Knoxville connection. His great-great-great-great grandfather (and mine) Obadiah Wright was married in Knoxville in 1812. The bride was Malinda Jones, whose father was a Methodist minister in Knoxville and owned a farmstead where (or very close to where) Neyland stadium now stands.

]]> http://jackneely.com/wordpress/2015/01/08/obamas-knoxville-visit/#comment-63 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 04:24:12 +0000 http://jackneely.com/wordpress/?p=115#comment-63 I believe that Monroe made a tour of the Deep South (Ga., Ala., Tenn., et al) about 1819. Don’t think he visited Knoxville, but he did travel, and by horseback at times.

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