Davis collection of papers relating to Alvin C. York, 1920-1967.

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Davis collection of papers relating to Alvin C. York, 1920-1967.

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Consists of correspondence, programs, photographs, and clippings relating to Alvin C. York and his wife, Gracie Williams York. Of special interest is the correspondence concerning the financing of a gravestone monument to York in Pall Mall, Tennessee.

ca. 25 items.

Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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SNAC Resource ID: 7271829

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York, Alvin Cullum, 1887-1964

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Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known as Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking at least one machine gun, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 132. York's Medal of Honor action occurred during the United States-led portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, which was intended to breach the Hindenburg line a...

York, Gracie Williams.

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