Denmark, TN pictures

Denmark, Tennessee
Some Pictures and History

In the middle portion of southwestern Tennessee there are a lot of cotton fields like this, but not nearly as many as when the Skillern, Wilsford and Angus families lived there.

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The families went on to Arkansas in the late 1850s to the same type of land, same type of crops, and same type of churches. Here in Denmark this group established the Denmark Presbyterian Church - and even an academy for males as well as one for females. This is remarkable, considering the fact that they used separate walkways, doorways and entrances into a sanctuary with divided pews!

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While in Arkansas the families came into an area with an established church known as Sylvania Presbyterian Church.

Academy Road is just east of the Denmark Church, but the only thing left of the academies is a sign.

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The people in both areas, Denmark and Old Austin (just a few miles from Sylvania), showed their patriotism and American ways, then and now.

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They honored their dead by placing them in well-kept cemeteries, and it's remarkable how much the cemeteries in Denmark, Sylvania and Old Austin resemble each other - until you see the same names in each place!

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Reid is in this Sylvania cemetery also - a bit farther away from the driveway than is this petrified log, which has been here for at least sixty five years.

Other information on the Skillern family is here.

Jo Thiessen