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==References== {{reflist |30em |refs=<ref name="motto">{{cite web|url=http://www.dyersburgtn.gov/|title=City of Dyersburg, Tennessee|publisher=City of Dyersburg, Tennessee|access-date=August 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704093014/http://www.dyersburgtn.gov/|archive-date=July 4, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="GR2">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> <ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|1283267}}</ref> <ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4722200| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Dyersburg city, Tennessee| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| access-date=January 7, 2016| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213064100/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4722200| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="Census 2020">{{cite web| url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/dyersburgcitytennessee/PST045221| title=QuickFacts Dyersburg city, Tennessee| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=QuickFacts| access-date=August 16, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816235416/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/dyersburgcitytennessee/PST045221| archive-date=August 16, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="genesis">{{Cite web|url=https://www.stategazette.com/story/1033323.html|title=The genesis of Dyer County|last=Willoughby Jr.|first=Earl|date=November 6, 2002|website=Dyersburg State Gazette|access-date=September 28, 2019}}{{dead link|date=August 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="tnenc">{{cite web|url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/dyer-county/|title=Dyer County |last=Van West|first=Carroll |access-date=September 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712211245/https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/dyer-county/|archive-date=July 12, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="civilwar24">{{Cite book|url=https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/|title=The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies.|publisher=Government Printing Office|year=1880β1901|series=24|pages=29β30|location=Washington, D.C.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524075316/https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/|archive-date=May 24, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="civilwar243">{{Cite book|url=https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/|title=The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies.|publisher=Government Printing Office|year=1880β1901|series=24|pages=33β34|location=Washington, D.C.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524075316/https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/|archive-date=May 24, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="civilwar35">{{Cite book|url=https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/|title=The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies.|publisher=Government Printing Office|year=1880β1901|series=35|page=335|location=Washington, D.C.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524075316/https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/|archive-date=May 24, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="hatch">{{Cite book|url=https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/|title=The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies.|publisher=Government Printing Office|year=1880β1901|series=109|pages=431β432|location=Washington, D.C.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524075316/https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/|archive-date=May 24, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="tn-executions">{{Cite news |title=Tennessee Executions |work=[[Tennessee Department of Correction]] |url=https://www.tn.gov/correction/statistics-and-information/executions/tennessee-executions.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517193320/https://www.tn.gov/correction/statistics-and-information/executions/tennessee-executions.html |archive-date=May 17, 2022 |access-date=December 31, 2021 }}</ref> <ref name=crisis-thomas>{{Cite book|title=The Crisis, Volume 15, No. 4|last=Burghardt Du Bois|first=William Edward|publisher=Crisis Publishing Company|year=1918|location=New York|pages=183|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4ETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183}}</ref> <ref name="executed">{{cite web|url=http://www.executedtoday.com/2014/12/02/1917-lation-scott-lynched/|title=1917: Lation Scott lynched|date=December 2, 2014|website=executedtoday.com|access-date=April 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513222640/http://www.executedtoday.com/2014/12/02/1917-lation-scott-lynched/|archive-date=May 13, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="miami">{{Cite web|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article10771169.html|title=Racial lynchings, our own history of terrorism.|last=Hiaasen|first=Carl|date=February 21, 2015|website=Miami Herald|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222052444/http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article10771169.html|archive-date=February 22, 2015|access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref> <ref name="afro-american">{{Cite news|author=<!--not stated--> |title=TENNESSEE LYNCHING OUTRIVALS WORST GERMAN ATROCITIES|date=December 8, 1917|publisher=[[Baltimore Afro-American|The Afro-American]]|location=Baltimore, Maryland|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=niUmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7P0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5627%2C1587909|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326003436/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=niUmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7P0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5727%2C1588573|archive-date=March 26, 2022|access-date=March 25, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="crisis-scott">{{Cite book|title=The Crisis, Volume 15, No. 4|last=Burghardt Du Bois|first=William Edward|publisher=Crisis Publishing Company|year=1918|location=New York|pages=178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4ETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA178}}</ref> <ref name="blackripley">{{Cite web|url=https://blackripley.com/2013/11/01/who-was-lation-ligon-scott-dyersburg-tn/|title=Who was Lation (Ligon) Scott? β Dyersburg, TN|date=November 2, 2013|website=Black Ripley|language=en|access-date=September 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928185336/https://blackripley.com/2013/11/01/who-was-lation-ligon-scott-dyersburg-tn/|archive-date=September 28, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="mitchell">{{Cite book |title="Mean Things Happening in this Land: The Life and Times of H.L. Mitchell, Co-Founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union" |last=Mitchell |first=H.L. |date=October 22, 2014|isbn=9780806186078|pages=1|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3sCBQAAQBAJ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325233626/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mean_Things_Happening_in_this_Land/K3sCBQAAQBAJ | author-link= H. L. Mitchell | archive-date=March 25, 2022 | access-date=March 25, 2022}}</ref> <ref name="Vandiver">{{cite book |last=Vandiver |first=Margaret |title=Lethal Punishment : Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South |date=2006 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |location=New Brunswick, N.J. |isbn=9780813537283 |pages=96β98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xpnRipS4ZA8C&pg=PA1 |access-date=December 20, 2021 |archive-date=February 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226152303/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lethal_Punishment/xpnRipS4ZA8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Julius+Morgan+negro&pg=PA44&printsec=frontcover |url-status=live }}</ref> <ref name="daab">{{Cite web|url=https://tennesseehistoryblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/wwii-dyersburg-army-air-base-halls-tn-1941/|title=WWII Dyersburg Army Air Base β Halls TN, 1942|date=August 22, 2017|website=Tennessee History|language=en|access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref> <ref name="dyaab">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dyaab.us/|title=Dyersburg Army Air Base Memorial Association|website=website|language=en|access-date=September 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317062851/https://www.dyaab.us/|archive-date=March 17, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="board">{{cite web|url=http://members.boardhost.com/patsyclinemusic/msg/1362527954.html|title=What really happened in the Patsy Cline plane crash|author=Larry Jordan|date=March 5, 2013|website=boardhost.com|access-date=November 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928212334/http://members.boardhost.com/patsyclinemusic/msg/1362527954.html|archive-date=September 28, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="dscc-shooting">{{Cite web|url=https://www.kait8.com/story/1447800/dyersburg-hostage-situation-ends-in-death-bloodshed|title=Dyersburg Hostage Situation Ends in Death, Bloodshed|website=KAIT|access-date=September 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928182100/https://www.kait8.com/story/1447800/dyersburg-hostage-situation-ends-in-death-bloodshed/|archive-date=September 28, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="2020-protest-sg1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.stategazette.com/story/2819797.html|title=Protest held at Dyer County Courthouse|website=State Gazette|access-date=July 26, 2020}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="2020-protest-sg2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.stategazette.com/story/2820879.html|title=Protesters, local citizens hold discussions in downtown Dyersburg|website=State Gazette|access-date=July 26, 2020}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="2020-protest-wbbj1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbbjtv.com/2020/07/05/protesters-counter-protesters-hold-discussion-in-dyersburg/|title=Protesters, counter-protesters hold discussion in Dyersburg|website=WBBJ|access-date=July 26, 2020}}</ref> <ref name="2020-protest-wbbj2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbbjtv.com/2020/07/10/protesters-address-racial-injustice-police-brutality-in-dyersburg/|title=Protesters address racial injustice, police brutality in Dyersburg|website=WBBJ|access-date=July 26, 2020}}</ref> <ref name="2020-protest-js1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2020/07/13/protesters-want-dismantle-racism-counter-protesters-protect-statue/5397806002/|title=Confederate monument in Dyersburg becomes focus of protest against systemic racism|website=Jackson Sun|access-date=July 26, 2020}}</ref> <ref name="2020-protest-wbbj3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbbjtv.com/2020/06/29/protesters-gather-in-downtown-dyersburg-spectators-react/|title=Protesters gather in downtown Dyersburg, spectators react|website=WBBJ|access-date=July 26, 2020}}</ref> <ref name="earthquake">{{Cite web|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nm605762/executive|website=USGS Earthquake Hazards Program|title=M 4.0 - 12km S of Ridgely, Tennessee|access-date=September 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928232721/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nm605762/executive|archive-date=September 28, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="NOAA">{{cite web | url = https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=meg | title = NowData - NOAA Online Weather Data | publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | access-date = September 25, 2021}}</ref> <ref name="NCEI">{{cite web | url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USW00003809&format=pdf | title = Station: Dyersburg III Golf, TN | work = U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020) | publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | access-date = September 25, 2021}}</ref> <ref name="census-info">{{cite web|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/47/4722200.html|title={title}|access-date=December 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106072349/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/47/4722200.html|archive-date=November 6, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="racial-comp">{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US4722200&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 7, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref> <ref name="baseball-1">{{cite web|url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/roster/t-dd11336/y-1923|title=1923 Dyersburg Forked Deers Roster|work=Stats Crew|access-date=May 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531044551/https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/roster/t-dd11336/y-1923|archive-date=May 31, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="1923champs">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52111746/dyersburg-crowned-league-champion-after/|via=Newspapers.com|title=Dyersburg Crowned League Champion After Winning Series from Mayfield|work=News-Democrat|location=Paducah|date=September 12, 1923|page=6}}</ref> <ref name="baseball-2">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52112808/deers-win-title-of-kitty-loop-from-paris/|via=Newspapers.com|title=Deers Win Title of Kitty Loop from Paris|work=The Courier-Journal|location=Louisville|date=September 17, 1924|page=9}}</ref> <ref name="parks">{{Cite web|url=https://dyersburgtn.gov/parks_recreation/index.htm|title=Dyersburg, TN|website=dyersburgtn.gov|access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref> <ref name="dscc">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dscc.edu/about-dscc/about-dyersburg-state|title=About the College|website=www.dscc.edu|access-date=September 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101182745/https://www.dscc.edu/about-dscc/about-dyersburg-state|archive-date=November 1, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="dscc-locations">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dscc.edu/about-dscc/locations|title=DSCC Locations|website=www.dscc.edu|access-date=November 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101182625/https://www.dscc.edu/about-dscc/locations|archive-date=November 1, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="sg-1">{{cite web|url=http://www.stategazette.com/|title=Dyersburg State Gazette|publisher=Dyersburg State Gazette|access-date=August 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814103811/http://www.stategazette.com/|archive-date=August 14, 2012|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="Dyersburg News State Gazette">{{cite web|url=http://www.yellowpages.com/dyersburg-tn/mip/dyersburg-news-state-gazette-577664|title=Dyersburg News State Gazette| publisher= YP Intellectual Property LLC|access-date=August 14, 2012}}</ref> <ref name="hospital-1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.stategazette.com/story/2617494.html|title=Dyersburg Hospital awarded accreditation from joint commission|date=June 25, 2019|work=Dyersburg State Gazette|access-date=September 28, 2019}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="hospital-2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wth.org/locations/dyersburg-hospital/|title=Dyersburg Hospital|website=West Tennessee Healthcare|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901053615/https://www.wth.org/locations/dyersburg-hospital/|archive-date=September 1, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="hospital-3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.stategazette.com/story/1026359.html|title=Methodist Healthcare-Dyersburg Hospital on Parkview Street in Dyersburg|date=September 25, 2002|work=Dyersburg State Gazette|access-date=September 28, 2019}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="hospital-4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.stategazette.com/story/2231121.html|title=Dyersburg Regional joins Tennova Healthcare|date=September 15, 2015|work=Dyersburg State Gazette|access-date=September 28, 2019}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="hospital-5">{{Cite news|url=https://www.stategazette.com/story/2496576.html|title=Dyersburg hospital sold to West Tennessee Healthcare|date=March 27, 2018|work=Dyersburg State Gazette|access-date=September 28, 2019}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="fiser">Sources vary as to the exact date of his death. Banks (p. 87) gives June 4; both "Antietam on the Web" and Allardice (p. 87) state June 14; Eicher (p. 596) gives June 15.</ref> <ref name="ford-actor">{{cite web|title=Former Dyersburg resident to star in new CBS drama|date=June 19, 2015|publisher=State Gazette|url=http://www.stategazette.com/story/2206248.html|access-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223144617/http://www.stategazette.com/story/2206248.html|archive-date=December 23, 2015|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="kellyjr">{{Cite web|url=http://www.emmettkellyjr.com/emmettsbio.html|title=Emmett Kelly Jr|website=www.emmettkellyjr.com|access-date=September 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222120211/http://www.emmettkellyjr.com/emmettsbio.html|archive-date=December 22, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="bosshoss">{{Cite web|url=https://bosshoss.com/about/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616192959/https://bosshoss.com/about/|archive-date=June 16, 2021|url-status=live|access-date=May 29, 2022|title=Boss Hoss Background|publisher=Boss Hoss}}</ref> <ref name="bosshoss-sg">{{cite web|title=Boss Hoss under new ownership, staying in Dyersburg|last=Jones|first=Ken|date=January 20, 2016|publisher=State Gazette|url=https://www.stategazette.com/story/2269235.html|access-date=May 29, 2022}}{{subscription required}}</ref> <ref name="train">{{Cite web|url=https://www.amtrak.com/city-of-new-orleans-train|access-date=June 30, 2022|publisher=[[Amtrak]]|title=City of New Orleans|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630182157/https://www.amtrak.com/city-of-new-orleans-train|archive-date=June 30, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="nyt-scott">{{Cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/12/03/98256102.pdf|title=NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE.; Tennessee Mob Puts Prisoner to Death in Sight of Thousands.|location=New York, NY|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 3, 1917|author=<!--not stated-->|volume=LXVII|number=21863|page=22|access-date=June 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630192241/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/12/03/98256102.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0|archive-date=June 30, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="wright-ed">{{Sabrbio|e3bb377d|Ed Wright|Bob Brady|August 16, 2017}}</ref> <ref name=football-arch>{{cite web|url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/players/swif00400.html|author=<!--Not stated-->|title=Michael Swift NFL Stats - Pro Football Archives|website=profootballarchives.com|access-date=July 2, 2022}}</ref> <ref name="citation">{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/vietnam-a-l.html|title=Medal of Honor recipients β Vietnam (A-L)|date=August 3, 2009|publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]]|accessdate=August 13, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921085414/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/vietnam-a-l.html|archive-date=September 21, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name=moon>{{cite web|work=The Wrestling Gospel According to Mike Mooneyham|first=Mike|last=Mooneyham|title=Remembering George "Two Ton" Harris|date=December 15, 2002|access-date=January 19, 2009|url=http://www.mikemooneyham.com/?p=774}}</ref> <ref name=princeton>{{cite web|url=http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2012/12/12/sections/memorials/2519/|title=John D. 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