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Deaf History in Tennessee |
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Year 1777 - Davy Crockett, not deaf, was a famous
soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo (1836). Anyway, he had an
uncle who was deaf; this deaf
uncle was captured by the Creek Indians in Year 1777 in Tennessee and
was held captive for 17 years! (that was before Davy was born). |
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| Year 1891(?) - Tennessee - James Mason (black,
hearing) established a school for black deaf, the Tennessee School for
the Colored Deaf and Dumb. |
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| Year 1927 - League for the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing began in 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee. [1927] |
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DOUBLE TAX EXEMPT LAW IN 1979 -
William Eckstein, Arkansas Association of the Deaf. President,
Gloria Wright, Deputy Commis/ of Arkansas Human Services, Daniel
Burch, UALR interpreter professor, Dewey B. Nation, Arkansas
Association of the Deaf Treasurer, Teresa Eckstein, and Charlotte
Collums, great AAD advocate and Governor Bill Clinton signing Double
Tax Exempt law for deaf, hard of hearing and handicapped as well as
blind people.
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| THE STRAWBERRY PIE AND THE TOWN -- The
town Harriet, Arkansas, has been named after a deaf person - Harriet
Esther Anderson. She was the area postmistress, and when she passed
away, the area became a newly named town in her honor.
There is a sequel. It was just learned that Harriet's husband was not
deaf but knew sign language. He wanted to open a new post office in a
small Arkansas town. The postal service representative came over to look
over the town as a possible site. The representative and the
Andersons got together to talk business. It so happened that the
representative knew signs, making possible communications with the deaf
wife. Additionally, Harriet served a great strawberry pie that the
representative fell in love with. In appreciation he named the town, and
the new post office in honor of Harriet! See below an image |
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