Davidson County, TN - Sigma Chi Members, pre-1900 File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Alan Simmons ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Below is the original Epsilon Chapter. It was located in Davidson County, Tennessee. There were 75 chapters established before 1900 in 30 states. I have contacts with some of the families, not many but some. Please contact me if you have any questions. I will be more than happy to get them in touch with any family members I can. Alan Simmons cwsimmons@earthlink.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Epsilon (Original) Chapter -- Western Military Institute (University of Nashville) Nashville, Tennessee Established January 1, 1856 --- Became Inactive 1857 Boyd McNaivy Cheatham, Captain of Tennessee Regiment and on the staff of General B.F. Cheatham. Railroad official, Springfield, Tennessee. Died July 19, 1876. Edwin A. Cooper, Stock Raising, Fairfield, Illinois, Died in Texas in 1861. John T (Tom). Cunningham, Van Buren, Arkansas Samuel Donelson Jackson, (Andrew Jackson's adopted grandson), Nashville, Tennessee. Captain of Tennessee regiment, wounded at Chickamauga resulting in his death September 20, 1863. C.J. Foster, Surgeon, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Member of Louisiana Regiment, died in the service James B. Hamilton, (Honorary factuality member), soldier, died in the service C.G. Humphries, Nashville, Tennessee George W. Lusher, Engineer, Memphis, Tennessee. Milton, Vernon, Enlisted from his home in Shelbyville, Indiana in the Union Quartermaster's Division at Nashville. Insurance, Pamoia, California. T. Eugene Whitfield, Memphis, Tennessee.