Though none of the founding fathers of this city ever actually called Memphis home, their descendants certainly did.

CoL John Overton, Jr., of Memphis. Tenn., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He is here on railroad business, being the first executive officer of the East Tennessee Midland Railroad.

Richard Overton, the nation’s oldest World War II veteran whose grandfather was born a slave at the Nashville-area plantation of Memphis co-founder John Overton, died Thursday in Austin, Texas.

When surveyor William Lawrence laid out in 1819 what would become the town of Memphis at the behest of city founders John Overton, Andrew Jackson and James Winchester, the land that would have ...