Lorena Lewis Bagwell Collection

In 2021, Jane (Smith) Bagwell loaned four 3-ring binders to the Stewart County Archives for digitization, consisting of research notes, correspondence and documents compiled by her late mother-in-law, Lorena (Lewis) Bagwell, a longtime county and family historian.

Topics and families covered in the binders include:
 

• Obituaries clipped from the Dover and Clarksville newspapers
• “Cemetery Scene” articles from the Stewart-Houston Times
• Mary (Atkins) Howell family
• George B. Atkins family
• Charles and Rachel (Atkins) Roper family
• Wyatt family
• Swor / Swaar family
• Mary Florence Betts
• Daniel and Elizabeth (Atkins) Lewis family
• Bibb family
• William and Rachel (Atkins) Wall family
• Bazel and Martha (Hood) Smith family
• Alvin and Cordle (Wilson) Peacher family
• Willie Russell Butts
• James and Kathrine Green
• Dr. John Reuben Moore
• Reynolds and Emma (Atkins) Norfleet
• Charles and Mattye (Wyatt) Atkins
• Smith – Atkins – Norfleet – Wyatt
• Smith
• Stewart County misc. from Ansearchin’ News quarterly