My ancestor settled in Greene County, on a land grant he received for service in the Revolutionary War. At one time this county was part of North Carolina.
Because of your ancestor, you and I have a representative in Congress, rather than none in Parliament. Because of Sam Houston I am typing in English rather than Spanish. Because of what the Jamestown colony Virginians learned my paycheck comes from a private individual rather than the state, any your tradition and value of hounds is decided by those Tennessee citizens participating in their chosen avocation. And because North Carolina was unable to properly assist the citizens of the Tennessee territory, Tennesseans themselves fought for and created the great state of Tennessee (and Franklin).
Boy, you know your history. My ancestors were also there when the State of Franklin was established, in what is now Greene County, TN.
And when Andrew Johnson "the Constitution President," was brought up on articles of impeachment. He is buried in Greeneville, his homeplace, tailor shop and burial site national Historical Sites now. He was buried with his head on a copy of the Constitution, see details here : http://www.nps.gov/anjo/
I have a copy of the bill my ancestor presented to the Union officers when they used our old homeplace as a headquarters. Greeneville changed hands between the Union and Confederate military nine times during the Civil War, and a confederate soldier was shot and killed on the porch of our old homeplace.
I have details about my great grandfather (when he was six years old)shooting a hole in the wall and barely missing my grandma's aunt's head, when he was going to "kill him a confederate." My grandmother and great aunts and uncles told me these stories passed on to them from their father, aunt and uncles.
John Hunt Morgan, the famous Confederate general, known as "The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy" was killed in Greeneville, after he became a legend for escaping the Union Army and a Union prison several times. He was unstoppable, until a Greeneville family hosted him and their daughter-in-law, a Union sympathiser, sent word to a nearby Union detachment and they ambushed him.
They paraded his body up and down Main Street Greeneville, draped over his prized Kentucky horse.
Greeneville is the true symbol of the war that "turned brother against brother."
I had ancestors on both sides, who fought passionately for their beliefs.
And I mentioned earlier the prized hounds they use for bear hunting here -- there are still lines of hounds here used by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, they were some of the first to import these hounds from Europe.
I have written extensively about the bear hunting and bear hounds here. It's (can't you tell) one of my favorite subjects.