A Word on Nancy Gullion

In the late 1920's and early 1930's the Gallatin County News published a series of articles on the history of Gallatin County by Sparta's Mrs. Nancy Gullion (Mrs. Curtis Gullion).  They were generally uncredited, but the News “outed” her in Part 18 of this series. 

The articles presented here are not in the order she wrote them, or in the order they were printed (a date not always available to us), but rather are arranged more or less chronologically, based on the events in each article.  It's not a perfect arrangement, but it's as good as any we could come up with, and besides, we found this cache of articles in our Grandmother's stuff, and it's the way she had them.  Not all of the articles are by Ms. Gullion.  We've noted another author if the paper mentioned it; if not, not.

The downside to Mrs. Gullion's articles is that she has a taste for some outlandishly garish sentences (“At the wharf lay huge dark flat boats rocking quietly to and fro like a dreamy waltzer stepping to the music of a Hawaiian guitar.”), and she likes to include detail about what is now Carroll County.  In fairness to her, Carroll was a part of Gallatin County until 1838, and that's sometimes the time she's writing about.   And she has several nuggets of Gallatin history you won't find anywhere else.

Copies of the original Gallatin County News issues are no longer extant.

As always, everything you read between the blue lines is an exact quotation of the original printed article.