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    Henning is a town in Lauderdale County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 945 at the 2010 census. Founded in the late 1800s, the town is named...
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    Erle P. Halliburton (category People from Henning, Tennessee)
    field services. Halliburton was born on September 22, 1892, near Henning, Tennessee, the son of Lou Emma (Cothran) and Edwin Graves Halliburton. When...
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  • George Palmer, the daughter of William E. and Cynthia Murray Palmer of Henning, Tennessee. Bertha was also a Lane College alum. The couple had three sons -...
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    Alex Haley (category People from Henning, Tennessee)
    (from his father's second marriage). Haley lived with his family in Henning, Tennessee, before returning to Ithaca with his family when he was five years...
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  • Roots: The Next Generations (category Television shows set in Tennessee)
    Roots miniseries, tracing the lives of Kunta Kinte's descendants in Henning, Tennessee, from 1882 to 1967. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with...
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  • Henning is a surname, also used as a given name, with origins in East Prussia (now part of Poland and Russia). Henning may also refer to: A. J. Henning...
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  • George W. Haley (category People from Henning, Tennessee)
    brothers to the Pulitzer Prize winner Alex Haley. Haley was born in Henning, Tennessee to Simon Haley and his first wife Bertha. He was the second of their...
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    Willie Newbern and Sleepy John Estes. Harmonica player Noah Lewis of Henning, Tennessee, is buried in an area cemetery near Nutbush. Nutbush is best known...
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    sharecrop for their former masters, they will move from North Carolina to Henning, Tennessee, which is looking for new settlers. They eventually become a prosperous...
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    Noah Lewis (musician) (category People from Henning, Tennessee)
    harmonica. Lewis was born in Henning, Tennessee, and learned to play the harmonica as a child. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in his early teens, where...
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    Ramon Foster (category People from Henning, Tennessee)
    shot put of 45–11. Coming out of Tennessee in 2009, Foster attended the NFL Combine and participated at Tennessee's annual Pro Day. He was projected by...
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  • Lauderdale County, Tennessee, near Henning. Site #1 of WTSP formerly housed the Cold Creek Correctional Facility. The West Tennessee High Security Facility (WTHSF)...
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  • Chitto or "Bok Cito", Mississippi Bogue Homa Conehatta Crystal Ridge Henning, Tennessee Pearl River Red Water Tucker Standing Pine These communities are located...
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    Band of Choctaw Indians is Tennessee's only federally recognized Native American tribe. It owns 79 acres (32 ha) in Henning, which the tribe placed into...
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    Alex Haley House and Museum (category Biographical museums in Tennessee)
    Historic Site is one of the Tennessee Historical Commission's state-owned historic sites and is located in Henning, Tennessee, United States. It is open...
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    Battle of Fort Pillow (category 1864 in Tennessee)
    fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with Confederate...
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    Jim Hickman (1960s outfielder) (category People from Henning, Tennessee)
    Fosse to score the run. Like Hickman, the pitchers of record were also Tennessee natives; Claude Osteen, Hickman's Dodger teammate in 1967, was the winning...
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    itself. The Tennessee Department of Corrections operates the West Tennessee State Penitentiary in unincorporated Lauderdale County, near Henning. Previously...
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  • 1981. Victims: A True Story of the Civil War. Knoxville, Tennessee, The University of Tennessee Press. p. 144. Goodrich, Thomas. Bloody Dawn: The Story...
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  • drama miniseries tracing the lives of Kunta Kinte's descendants in Henning, Tennessee, from 1882 to 1967 The Secret of Enigma (Polish: Sekret Enigmy) (1979)...
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    45. US 51 enters Tennessee at Memphis and runs north through the cities of Millington, Munford, Atoka, Brighton, Covington, Henning, Ripley, Halls, Dyersburg...
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    Fort Pillow State Historic Park is a state park in western Tennessee that preserves the American Civil War site of the Battle of Fort Pillow. The 1,642...
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  • John Henry Barbee (category People from Henning, Tennessee)
    1964) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Henning, Tennessee. He claimed that he was born William George Tucker and that he changed...
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    Nathan Bedford Forrest (category People from Chapel Hill, Tennessee)
    Fort Pillow, located 40 miles (64 km) upriver from Memphis (near Henning, Tennessee), was initially constructed by Confederate general Gideon Johnson...
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  • Hosea T. Lockard (category People from Henning, Tennessee)
    the U.S. State of Tennessee for Shelby County. He was born in Ripley, Tennessee, and was raised on a farm in the nearby town of Henning by Albert and Lucille...
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  • albums under his own name. John Henry Barbee (November 14, 1905, Henning, Tennessee – November 3, 1964). Guitarist and singer, an exponent of early country...
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    Squirrel White (category Tennessee Volunteers football players)
    White (born May 5, 2004) is an American football wide receiver for the Tennessee Volunteers. White's great-grandmother nicknamed him "Squirrel" as an infant...
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    Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (German: [maks ˈdɛl.bʁʏk] ; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching...
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  • 31 July 1988 More than 32 killed. Tennessee Hatchie River Bridge Between Covington, Tennessee and Henning, Tennessee United States 1 April 1989 Northbound...
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  • This is a list of state prisons in Tennessee. The only federal prison in Tennessee is Federal Correctional Institution, Memphis in Shelby County, although...
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