Editing Puryear, Tennessee (section)

==History==
Puryear was originally named Littleton in honor of James T. Littleton, a farmer and [[Confederate States Army]] veteran who donated a portion of his land to the [[Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad]] to use as a right of way.<ref name="McCutcheon">{{Cite web |last=McCutcheon |first=Bill |date=May 14, 2009 |title=Puryear Hits 100th Anniversary |url=https://www.parispi.net/news/local_news/article_43dfacf1-7448-5039-8b41-549d83b86396.html |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=[[The Paris Post-Intelligencer]]}}</ref> Its name was changed to Puryear at the suggestion of Littleton's son, James Graves Littleton, when the [[Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway]] took control of the railroad and mandated it be changed so as not to conflict with the name of either a town in Georgia<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 30, 1962 |title=J. G. Littleton Funeral Set at Puryear |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-j-g-littleton-funeral/156864219/ |work=[[The Nashville Banner]] |location=Puryear, Tennessee |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> or [[Littleton, North Carolina]].<ref name="McCutcheon" />