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'GHOSTS' OF ELMWOODElmwood Cemetery turns “Soul of the City” performances into film due to coronavirus P. 2

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Actress Susan “Cookie” Swain portrays Geneva Barnes Ramsey Williams, who was the first wife of notorious gangster Machine Gun Kelly, during filming of Elmwood Cemetery’s annual fall "Soul of the City" tour on Friday, July 31, 2020. The cemetery’s annual fundraiser can be experienced virtually this year due to the pandemic. (Mark Weber/The West Tennessee News)

VACCINEOne in three Americans would not get COVID-19 vaccine today, even if free P. 3

HOME SALES Memphis-area home sales rise "pretty remarkable" 1.9% in July P. 3

Legislature passes bill to protect businesses from COVID-19 lawsuits P. 4

Cohen, Kustoff reflect Congressional divide over new COVID-19 relief package P. 5

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CHRIS HERRINGTONThe West Tennessee News

“I’ve been a suffragette. I’ve been a murderer. I’ve been a spy. I’ve been a woman who lived to be 100, from the Civil War through the Korean War. I’ve been a yellow fever lady. I’ve loved them all,” says Cookie Swain, wrestling with a fake (?) mink stole on a breezy late July morning at Elmwood Cemetery.

Who is she this time?She’s Geneva Barnes Ramsey Wil-

liams, the first wife of prohibition-era Memphis gangster George “Machine Gun Kelly” Barnes.

“I played her six or seven years ago, but since then I’ve found out a few more things,” says Swain.

What do all of these characters have in common? All are “residents” of Elm-wood, the 80-acre repository of collective Memphis memory, where the final resting places of mayors, governors, generals, martyrs, Memphis Music Hall of Famers and others are surrounded by magnolias, crepe myrtles and towering hardwoods for what amounts to the best and most educational walk in Memphis.

Swain and others typically bring these Elmwood fixtures to life as a kind of live theater, performing for groups of 50 or so at a time during Elmwood’s fall “Soul of the City” tour, the cemetery’s biggest an-nual event, which takes visitors around the grounds, where some “residents” ma-terialize to tell their own stories.

“We’ve done this tour for many years now. We can’t do it this year,” says Kim-berly Bearden, Elmwood’s longtime ex-ecutive director. “Soul of the City” did two tours last October, in addition to a

separate indoor version, and Elmwood hopes to expand it. But groups of 50 aren’t possible due to coronavirus. And so El-mwood has decided to bring the tour to the people, turning its “Soul of the City” performances into a film that will be streamed on Saturday, Oct. 10.

This time, Swain is performing for the camera and an audience of only a few. A gust of wind nearly takes her gangster’s moll hat away, but she reaches up to save it mid-monologue, not missing a beat.

Her director is Willy Bearden, a Mem-phis filmmaker whose 2002 documentary on Elmwood was featured on WKNO’s Memphis Memoirs series. A signature voice on Memphis history, Bearden has also made films on Overton Park, the city’s Sixties’ garage band scene, Victori-an Village, the cotton industry and more. Earlier this summer, he was charged with conducting a virtual version of the Blues Foundation’s annual awards ceremony.

For “Soul of the City,” he won’t be cre-ating a virtual tour as much as crafting a documentary on some Elmwood resi-dents, cutting actor’s performances with photographs and other archival material.

He’ll also be doing double duty, re-prising his prior “Soul of the City” role as one of Elmwood’s higher-profile resi-dents, former Memphis Mayor E.H. “Boss” Crump, who will serve as a kind of host of the film.“He’s got the look,” says Kim, who will move behind the camera to film Willy’s scenes.

“I just channel Lyndon Johnson,” Willy says of the method he applies to bring Boss Crump to life.Willy credits El-mwood with guiding much of his career in telling Memphis stories. “I learned so

much about Memphis history from just hanging out here and asking questions,” he says. “That really gave me a good start on things.”

It’s also how he met Kim. He inter-viewed her for the documentary. The couple were married three years ago.

“This is a very special place,” Willy says. “Years later, Kim and I got together. Now, she’s the executive director of me.”

In the time between their meeting and marriage, they co-authored a book

on Elmwood, a 2016 addition to the Im-ages of America series. “If you want to test your relationship, write a book with your future spouse,” Kim says.

Things are different at Elmwood this summer, as they are most places. The grounds are still open daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and there are still some tours, but many fewer people are taking that walk this summer.

“We’ve kept the groups small. You can do it, you just need to be smart,” Kim says.

“Unfortunately, the few tours that we’ve done have been very small. Elm-wood, like any other museum, works through getting many people here. Right now, we can’t do that. Usually, our hustle is strong and by this time of our fiscal year (which begins in April), we’ve had school tours coming through. By this point, I would have given several lectures in the chapel.”Tours this spring and summer have been capped at 12, with most pre-sentations online. Elmwood remains an active cemetery.“We bury people,” Kim says. “That’s our No. 1 business.”But that won’t always be the case.

“One day, who knows when that will be, maybe decades from now, we’ll run out of space,” she says. “So, it’s wise to take a moment to look back, capture our history and share it with people. There’s so much of it and it reflects all facets of

Memphis. People from all walks of life who came through Memphis are buried here, starting in 1852.”

“Soul of the City” has become Elm-wood’s biggest annual fundraiser, con-tributing close to 5% of the cemetery’s more than $900,000 annual operating budget. How successful can it be in a vir-tual realm?“This is uncharted territory for us,” she says. “We have been raising

This year ‘ghosts’ of Elmwood can visit you at home

Actor Terry Rogers, (middle) adjusts his hat while portraying civil rights photographer Ernest Withers during filming of Elmwood Cemetery’s annual fall "Soul of the City" tour on Friday, July 31, 2020. The cemetery’s annual fundraiser can be experienced virtually this year due to the pandemic. (Mark Weber/The West Tennessee News)

Elmwood Cemetery Executive Director Kim Bearden, (middle) with help from husband Willy Bearden (right) places a microphone onto actress Susan “Cookie” Swain before filming at the cemetery on Friday, July 31, 2020. (Mark Weber/The West Tennessee News)

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JANE ROBERTSThe West Tennessee News

With more than 5 million cases of coronavirus in the United States, deaths exceeding 163,000 and upticks in disease rivaling In-dia and Brazil, one in three Ameri-can adults say they would refuse to be vaccinated today, even if the vaccine had FDA approval

and was free. From late July to early August, Gallup asked 7,632 respondents the following ques-tion: “If an FDA-approved vac-cine to prevent coronavirus/CO-VID-19 was available right now at no cost, would you agree to be vaccinated?”

Although 35% of the overall respondents said they would not

get the vaccine, the numbers are more dramatic around party af-filiation and age.Among respon-dents who identified as Repub-lican, 53% said they would not get the shot compared to 19% of responders who are Democrats.

Among Independents, 41% said no.And more than four out of 10 people of color (41%) also said they would not get the vac-cine compared to 33% of people reported as white.On the age spectrum, 24% of 18-29 year-olds were against it compared to 30% of those 65 and older.“I’m not surprised,” said Dr. David Mirvis, a cardiologist who is a professor emeritus at the University of Ten-nessee Health Science Center and senior research fellow at the Uni-versity of Memphis.

“People are skeptical, both for the general anti-vaxxer sorts of arguments and the general distrust of government and sci-ence,” he said. “I think the level of distrust is at an all-time high, from government in general to the particular government to the role of science.“Not to get too

political, but when the president is disagreeing with top scientists, who do you believe?” Mirvis said. “I think that shows in the break-down between political parties in the survey.”

On Friday, Aug.7, Dr. Andrew Fauci, White House coronavirus adviser, said the chances of a vac-cine offering protection for 98% or more of the population were “not great,” noting that scientists are hoping for 75% effectiveness but that 50-60% would be acceptable.

Because the vaccine likely will not be a silver bullet, Fauci says public health directives - masks, distancing and hand-washing - can’t be abandoned.He has also said the vaccine will be available in early 2021.

Experts say a 65% vaccination rate, coupled with the percentage of people who will have had the virus by then and will be immune, should be enough to create herd immunity. Epidemiologists use that term to describe the point where enough people are immune to keep that a virus or disease can’t get a foothold.

“We suspect we need 60-70% for herd immunity,” said Dr. Manoj Jain, infectious disease expert in private practice here and af-filiated with UTHSC and Emory University Rollins School of Pub-lic Health.

“If we can get two out of three, that may be sufficient, although outbreaks will still occur amongst those that did not get vaccinated.” That spotty coverage will create dilemmas for employers, Jain said, noting that some may have to make COVID vaccinations mandatory.“It may be up to an employer to decide if individu-als are customer-facing,” he said. “It will be very important at that time to have those people vacci-nated. Otherwise, they are a pub-lic health threat.”

What people say they would do now compared to when the vaccine is actually available may be very different things, says Dr. Sara Cross, infectious disease ex-pert at Regional One Health and associate professor in medicine

TOM BAILEYThe West Tennessee News

Normally, a monthly, 1.9% increase in the number of Memphis-area homes sold might draw a ho-hum response.

But the past five months have been so abnormally challenging that the presi-dent of the Memphis Area Association of Realtors said it was “pretty remarkable” that 1,982 homes were sold in July com-pared to 1,945 sold in July 2019.

”July was a strong month, with sales up 1.9% from a year ago,” Kathryn Gar-land said in a prepared statement. “For the market to be so resilient during a pandemic is pretty remarkable.”

July’s increase is substantial com-pared to the 13.5% drop in June, the 20% drop in May and the 14.9% drop in April.

July sales rose 22.5% over the previ-ous month.

Realtor Nadia Fares offered her theory to explain the positive July sales despite COVID-19 and social distancing.

“I think people were overwhelmed with the beginning of the quarantine,” Fares said during an open house she host-ed Sunday, Aug. 9, at The Kennedy condos at 1625 Monroe in Midtown. She’s an af-filiate broker with BHHS Taliesyn Realty.

“… And so people who were thinking of moving, buying or selling, that kind of got put on hold because everything was

up in the air,” Fares said. “And then after three months they kind of got used to it and said maybe this is going to be our new normal…

“Even companies that put their corpo-rate moves on hold, they can’t put them on hold forever,” Fares said. “If people are relocating, they have to relocate. They have to sell their homes wherever they are. They have to move here, and we’re still showing homes.”

Construction of The Kennedy was completed last fall. COVID-19 slammed the brakes on sales during spring, but now Fares is marketing the seven of 10 units that remain unsold.

The four units on the ends of the two brick buildings are listed for $269,900, and the six interior condos are $265,000 each.

That compares to July’s average sales price in the Memphis area of $222,114, up 7.4% from a year ago.

Driving prices ups is the relative dearth of homes available for sale. The area’s inventory of homes for sale during July fell another 7.3%, down to 2,938 units, according to the Realtors association.

Competition among buyers is keen.At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, Fares

entered an active listing into the Realtor system for a house on Hawthorne in the Vollintine Evergreen neighborhood. By 7 Thursday morning the first offer arrived,

above the listed price. By the deadline for offers at 5 p.m. that day, nine – each over list price – were submitted and a buyer identified, Fares said.

“There are so few listings, but if a Real-tor does get a listing, that listing is basi-cally going to be sold if they price it cor-rectly,” she said.

More and more potential sellers are starting to realize how strong the market

is for them, she said. “There were some people that were not thinking of selling, but are realizing what the market is do-ing. And now have started to want to list their homes,” Fares said.

Year to date, sales are down 5.4% com-pared to the first seven months of 2019.

The average sales price so far this year is $204,461, up 8% from January-July last year.

Memphis-area home sales rise a ‘pretty remarkable’ 1.9% in July

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Realtor Nadia Fares of BHHS Taliesyn Realty hosts an open house on Sunday, Aug. 9, in the model condo at The Kennedy. (Tom Bailey/The West Tennessee News)

Nurse Danielle Marzette administers a vaccine to a patient at The Shot Nurse in East Memphis on July 21, 2020. (Ziggy Mack/The West Tennessee News)

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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Ten-nessee lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday, Aug. 12, setting new protec-tions for businesses, schools and health care facilities accused of making people sick through negligence.

The Senate voted 27-4 to make it harder for people who suff er injury or death from COVID-19 to file lawsuits against entities they believe caused them to catch the virus, forcing them to prove gross negligence or willful misconduct, a tougher legal challenge than under cur-rent law. Th e measure is designed to stop “frivolous” lawsuits.

Th e House voted 82-10 later to ac-cept the Senate legislation and send the measure to Gov. Bill Lee for his signature.

“It raises the bar ( for legal action) be-cause of the unique circumstance we fi nd ourselves in because of this pandemic,” said state Sen. Mike Bell, a Riceville Re-publican who is carrying the legislation.

Claimants would have to fi le a cer-tifi cation from a physician to bring an injury claim.

State Sen. Sara Kyle, a Memphis Dem-ocrat, opposed the legislation, saying it will stop “legitimate” lawsuits and en-able businesses to avoid litigation, even if they’re negligent.

“Th e biggest benefi ciaries of this bill are insurance companies, who will never have a judgment against them but will continue to collect premiums,” Kyle said.

The measure, which comes from the Lee Administration, will encourage businesses that have been ignoring the COVID-19 crisis to do “even less” and will increase the spread of the virus, Kyle argued.

She further contended the mea-sure will shift costs of illness to public taxpayers.

State Sen. Raumesh Akbari, a Mem-phis Democrat, said she wants to make sure it doesn’t protect “bad actors” that might put up signs prohibiting masks or refuse to clean their facilities. Akbari voted against the bill as well.

Bell contended those types of cases would be decided in court if a business is “grossly negligent” by refusing to follow safety guidelines.

He argued, nevertheless, the legisla-tion would off er protection to large busi-nesses statewide, including Amazon and Nissan, as well as a bakery in tiny Eag-leville and schools.

Th e Senate voted down amendments off ered by Senate Minority Leader Jeff Yar-bro designed to make sure “bad actors,”

or businesses that refuse to follow safety guidelines, don’t receive the same protec-tion as companies that take extra steps to keep employees and customers safe.

In addition, the Senate turned down an amendment by Yarbro, a Nashville Democrat, to make the measure eff ective on its passage. Th e eff ective date is Aug. 3, the date Lee called for a special session to consider the COVID-19 liability immu-nity legislation.

Similar legislation failed to pass the Legislature in June, mainly because of concerns in the House that a retroactive provision was unconstitutional.

Bell pointed out courts will have to make the decision on whether the bill is constitutional. But he said businesses need protections immediately.

“Lawyers are already advertising on TV,” Bell said, to fi nd plaintiff s seeking to fi le COVID-19 liability lawsuits.

Th e House turned down an amend-ment by Rep. John Ray Clemmons, a Nash-ville Democrat, calling for protection for fl u cases. He pointed out many in the Re-publican-controlled chamber believe the pandemic is a hoax and accused them of creating liability immunity for something they “don’t think is real.”

“I want to call out the hypocrisy,” Clemmons said of passing legislation that will protect “bad actors,” a minute percentage of businesses in the state that refuse to follow safety guidelines.

References to public health guid-ance are eliminated from the legislation, and Christian schools won’t have to fol-low guidelines in order to fall under the legislation.

State Rep. Joe Towns, a Memphis Democrat, said he believes the bill re-mains retroactive because it takes eff ect Aug. 3, nine days before the Legislature’s vote. He contended the state is “tread-ing very dangerous water” by creating a “window” for liability immunity for some businesses.

Likewise, state Rep. Bo Mitchell, a Nashville Democrat, argued that the state is creating a “cause of action” with the legislation and giving law fi rms an op-portunity to fi le lawsuits with COVID-19 as their target.

“I think you’re going to clog up the courts with cases,” Mitchell said.

House Majority Leader William Lam-berth countered that the Aug. 3 date was selected because that was the day Gov. Lee called for a special session to consider the legislation.

“It does not bar someone from exer-cising their rights to go through the legal system,” Lamberth said.

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WAYNE RISHERThe West Tennessee News

FedEx leaders have “enormous cause for optimism” despite COVID-19, trade disputes and other challenges, chairman and chief executive officer Frederick W. Smith says in his annual letter to share-holders.Smith called FedEx’s response to COVID-19 “one of the largest airlifts since the Berlin airlift of 1948” and reviewed a range of strategic moves, including severing ties with Amazon, designed to position FedEx as market leader in e-commerce shipments.

“COVID-19 obviously adds uncer-tainties to an already tenuous global landscape given the trade disputes and the slowing industrial economy,” Smith wrote in the letter posted this week.

“Despite these external factors over which we have little control, we have enormous cause for optimism. We’ve shown our mettle amid a global crisis,

and the world will continue to look to FedEx to deliver critical cargo.”While the loss of Amazon business temporar-ily hurt profits, Smith said FedEx has re-placed Amazon’s volume and eliminated costs specific to Amazon.

He said decisions to speed aircraft fleet modernization and stay the course on modernization of the Memphis and Indianapolis hubs were among strategic moves creating short-term headwinds.But “we’re confident we will point to these decisions as inflection points as we drive significant earnings growth and improvements for our shareholders and customers alike over the long term,” he said.

Smith said FedEx responded to CO-VID-19 with “herculean” efforts, starting when it hit China, where FedEx Express service was quickly restored to pre-pan-demic levels of 250 flights a week.

“We also f lew a total of 530 extra flights in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020, on top of our base schedule — un-dertaking one of the largest airlifts since the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and putting who we are and what we do on display for the world,” Smith said.

The U.S.-led Berlin airlift moved more than 2 million tons of essential supplies to the people of West Berlin after the So-viet Union in June 1948 blocked road ac-cess to Russian-occupied East Germany.

FedEx moved more than 36,000 tons of personal protective equipment, in-cluding about 1.5 billion masks; added weekend flights to move COVID-19 test specimens in the U.S.; arranged more than 100 charter flights and 1,000 ocean containers of PPE through FedEx Logis-tics; and facilitated more than 7,300 hu-manitarian aid shipments, Smith said.

It also handled peak-like levels of U.S. domestic volume due to increased e-commerce.FedEx employs more than 500,000 people worldwide and more than 30,000 in the Memphis area.

Smith said FedEx’s efforts to harness technology, including cloud computing, blockchain and robotics, place it on the cutting edge of the package delivery industry.

“You can expect us to continue to lead through technology and boost our capa-bilities at the intersection of the digital and physical world to position FedEx — an original market disruptor — to disrupt the market again,” Smith said. FedEx has rolled out the next generation

of its SenseAware tracking system for high-value shipments, called SenseAware ID, and it’s preparing for a second round of testing of Roxo the On Demand Bot, which was tested in Memphis and else-where last year.SenseAware ID provides real-time tracking of packages and is powered by Bluetooth Low Energy.

It’s initially limited to U.S. domestic FedEx Express First Overnight packages and will go nationwide by September.

Smith said FedEx is preparing Roxo for new tests and obtaining legislative and regulatory clearances for the autono-mous delivery vehicle, which is designed to make same-day deliveries from retail-ers using sidewalks and streets.

“There is much discussion of how autonomous robots like ours could help within a global pandemic like COVID-19, and we’ll come out of this pandemic with a greater understanding of how FedEx can benefit customers — and society — through these devices,” Smith said.Smith saluted outgoing chief financial officer Alan B. Graf Jr., who is retiring at year’s end after 40 years with FedEx, and departing 17-year board member John Edwardson.

“Alan has been part of every signifi-cant decision over his 40 years of service at FedEx and has helped navigate tre-mendous growth, strategic investments, game-changing acquisitions and global challenges. FedEx would not be the $69 billion globally admired corporation we are today without his leadership,” Smith said.

CEO says FedEx will stay on cutting edge

BILL DRIESThe West Tennessee News

Memphis’ two Congressmen say they are ready to return to Washington and cut short the current Congressional recess to vote on any deal for a new pandemic stimulus and relief package.

But so far, no deal appears imminent among Republican and Democratic lead-ers in the Capitol.

So Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis is reflecting on a win in last week’s 9th District Congressional prima-ry and leading opposition to President Donald Trump’s re-election in a majority Democratic county on the Nov. 3 ballot.Republican U.S. Rep. David Kustoff of Ger-mantown ran unopposed in his primary. For the Congressional recess, he has a dozen stops at diners and restaurants this week in his district, which includes 14 other counties as well as parts of Mem-phis and Shelby County.

Outside the East Memphis Blue Plate Café on Tuesday, Aug. 11, Kustoff said he is asking what small-business owners want to see in the relief package.

Kustoff sees Trump’s executive orders last week as a bridge to a deal on an-other relief package that he says is hung up on whether the federal government should supplement state unemployment payments with either $400 by Republi-can sentiment or $600 by Democratic sentiment.“What President Trump did several days ago really is the responsibility

of Congress,” he said of the executive or-ders. “If Congress will step up and act like I think we should there’s no need for those orders. I think that the executive orders are a short-term solution. They’re not long term.”Kustoff says a $600-a-week federal supplement for the unemployed encour-ages those without jobs to remain out of work. He also questioned whether Demo-crats holding out for the higher amount is designed to help presumptive Demo-cratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 general election.

“Some employers can’t compete with that unemployment benefit,” Kustoff said. “In some states like California and New York, where there’s a higher cost of living, maybe it does make sense. But in other states it clearly did not.”

“There’s no proof of that whatsoev-er,” Cohen said by Zoom Tuesday of the idea that the unemployment benefit is a disincentive to work. “There’s not work to go back to. It’s a Republican canard that Trump started.”Cohen also said the unemployment payment is not the only issue. There is U.S. Postal Service fund-ing and strings attached to the execu-tive orders as well as other Republican provisions.

“That was show business,” he said of the executive orders. “I would not be sur-prised if he charged us for the room he used for the press conference. It’s uncon-stitutional and totally irrelevant.”Cohen was also critical of Tennessee Gov. Bill

Lee for refusing to waive the requirement to sign up for pandemic EBT (electronic benefit transfer) payments in Tennessee that go to those who don’t qualify for fed-eral or state benefits on a regular basis.

The deadline to sign up for those benefits is Friday afternoon. Cohen says Lee’s decision could “leave $60 million on the table” that would otherwise go to Tennesseans.“It’s absurd,” he said. “He’s real good about caring about individual rights when it’s not wearing a mask or large gatherings. People getting federal money for their children – that’s an in-dividual right too, an individual right to

feed your family.”While Cohen and Kustoff differ on

federal unemployment payments, Cohen said their differences aren’t personal.

“I hate it when my friend does that, but he’s a good Republican,” he said.

Kustoff leavened his bipartisanship with praise for the president.

“Nobody knew what we were facing. Congress and the president did a lot of good things in a very short amount of time to try to stem the bleeding,” he said. “I don’t want to Monday morning quar-terback because we were all involved in those decisions.

Cohen, Kustoff reflect Congressional divide over new COVID relief package

Republican U.S. Rep. David Kustoff of Germantown talks to reporters outside the Blue Plate Café in Memphis on Tuesday, Aug. 11. (Patrick Lantrip/The West Tennessee News)

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at UTHSC.“The longer we live with this without a vaccine, the more people are going to know someone who died from it,” Cross said. “When you see someone dying from this and then a vaccine comes out that could protect you - that is not going to harm you in any way - I think people will realize that they should be getting this vac-cine. It can only help them and the people around them.”The higher the contagion rate of the disease, the more critical it is that people get vaccines to protect herd immunity, Cross said, pointing to measles, where outbreaks have occurred in the last several years because there are gaps in vac-cination rates.

“Every person with measles can infect 12-18 people,” she said. “A person with coro-navirus is going to infect 2-3 people. The number of people who need to be vaccinat-ed in order for us to achieve herd immunity depends on the level of contagiousness of that virus.”By the time the vaccine comes out, she says immunity from those who have the virus could mean that as little as 45-65% of the U.S. population will need the vaccine. “We are going to get there.”

Besides a rural/urban divide on the CO-VID vaccine, Gallup found people of color are wary of the vaccine and can be expect-ed to get it in small numbers.Mirvis isn’t surprised, saying medicine’s racist history runs deep in the United States, including a history of experimentation. “It gets back to trust,” he said. Gallup found men and women were equally (65%) inclined to re-ceive the shot. The largest enthusiasm was among 18-29 years old; 76% of them said they would get the vaccine today, higher than any other age group.“You usually think of that age group as the invincibles,” Mir-vis said. “They are convinced they can’t get sick; they are strong, healthy, whatever, ‘So don’t bother me with this.’”

But he says young people may see the vaccine as something that will help them specifically as opposed to masks, which protect other people.In a separate Gallup Poll conducted in the same timeframe, 46% of respondents, ages 18-44, said they wear a mask outside when it is not pos-sible to socially distance. Among those 65 and older, 60% said they mask up in those situations.“To me, the issue is not just what I am missing, it’s if I don’t behave, what am going to make someone else miss in their lives,” said Mirvis, 74.Although he has no proof, he suspects the way he thinks is the discipline of his generation.His only forays from home since the pandemic began are walks in the neighborhood.“When I take walks around the block, I always wear a mask. There are three reasons I do. One, it keeps me in the habit. Second, you don’t know who you are going to run into around the block. The third is a pedagogical reason: When people see someone in a mask, it re-minds them about masks,” he said.

That’s important, he says.Deborah Overall, a registered nurse and

manager at The Shot Nurse Immunization & Wellness Service, expects the vaccine will be met with the response she sees every year with the flu vaccine.“Most will get it and a percentage will not,” she said in a text Monday.“I will not hesitate and the same for my family. Vaccines work.” Cross, the only person on Gov. Bill Lee’s 15-member, statewide COVID task force from Memphis, expects no blurring of political lines asso-ciated with the virus or vaccine until after the November election.

“After that, it’s possible.”

on the front end for sponsorships and we have had some generous partners step forward. But we’re not done yet.”The film will be streamed free on Oct. 10 on plat-forms such as YouTube, Zimeo and Face-book, but Elmwood is hoping to still raise money from individual viewers.

“You can’t come here and take the tour and the internet is free. So why would you buy in? You can get stuff for buying in and also support the cemetery,’ she says.

At the $20 donation level, that will mean a link for a self-guided audio tour. At $125, Elmwood will deliver a charcuterie board to your home the day of the event.

“I think the important thing this year, during the pandemic, is that organiza-tions that contribute to the city have to give. We can’t not do things. We have to get creative and find ways to participate and give people something,” Kim says.

“This production is a gift. I also see it as an opportunity. There have been a lot of people in years past who haven’t been able to take this tour because they can’t do the walk. You’re on your feet for an hour and a half. By the time you’re done, you’re pretty worn out. I think this will help get the message out to an audience that’s never been here before. The inter-net is everywhere.” Swain is among those who went from an Elmwood tour-taker to tour-giver.“I came here on a tour and just fell in love with it,” she says. She guesses she’s done the costume tours about a dozen times. Earlier this summer, she led an after-hours bicycle tour on Saturday nights. “We were all socially distanced,” she says. “It was BYOB – bring your own bike.”Her fellow cast member on this July morning is a comparative newbie.

A dancer by training, Terry Rogers is in his second year as a member of the “Soul of the City” cast. Last year, he por-trayed R.H. Tate, one of the first Black doctors to practice in Memphis, and among the yellow fever martyrs. This year, Rogers is playing a more modern Mem-phis figure, and first-time “Soul of the City” character: Civil-rights-era photog-rapher Ernest Withers, who died in 2007. Like the former Mrs. Machine Gun Kelly, Withers is a role that gives good hat. But Rogers is also having a bit of a wardrobe problem. His, however, is related to the times, not to the vagaries of nature. “I’ve got quarantine hair. I’ve only had one haircut since March,” Rogers says, trying to get his Withers-style fedora to balance atop his head while he filmed in front of Elmwood’s 1866-built Phillips Cottage earlier the same morning.

“Soul of the City” filming continued into early August, with at least nine fea-tured residents, including blues singer Lillie Mae Glover, aka Ma Rainey II, the “mother of Beale Street,” (played by Sa-mantha Miller). There’s also Alma Theede, aka “Vance Avenue Alma” (played by Cathi Johnson), who was accused of kill-ing three of her six husbands. And there’s Judge Davis Park “Pappy” Hadden (played by Walt Tennyson), the mule-riding gambling innovator who led Memphis through the aftermath of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic, when the city lost its char-ter. “They’ve all been real fun,” Swain says. She’s talking about the Elmwood charac-ters she’s played over the years, but could be talking about all the rest.

“This place is like the Twilight Zone. It’s magical. They all want their stories to be known.”

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Foreclosure NoticesMadison County

142.23 feet to the point of beginning, containing 2.9 acres. (Legal description taken from prior deed.)Being the same property conveyed Jer-emy Sterling and wife, Haidy Sterling by deed dated August 30, 2006 by Deed of record in Deed Book 683, page 519, in the Register’s Office of Madison County, Tennessee Street Address: 52 Boyd Lane Jack-son, TN 38305 Parcel Number: 007 00203 000Current Owner: Jeremy Sterling and wife Haidy SterlingOther Interested Party(ies): N/AThis sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any govern-mental agency, state or federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; any deed of trust; and any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose; and All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust. The undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded by the Substitute Trustee at any time. This office is attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. McMichael Taylor Gray LLCSubstitute Trustee3550 Engineering Drive Suite 260Peachtree Corners, GA 30092Office: 404-474-7149Fax: 404-745-8121MTG: TN2020-00115July 10, 17, 24, 31, Aug. 7, 14, 2020 Fpn14581

Notice of Default and Foreclosure Sale

WHEREAS, on August 23, 2011, a certain Home Equity Conversion Deed of Trust (“Reverse Mortgage”) was executed by JAMES ROBERSON AND MATTIE ROBERSON, as mortgagor in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS BENEFICIARY, AS NOMINEE FOR GENERATION MORTGAGE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as mortgagee and John R. Moss, PC, as trustee, and was recorded on Septem-ber 6, 2011 under Clerk`s Instrument Number 11010086, Book T1911, Page 122-132 in the real property records of Madison, Tennessee.WHEREAS, the Reverse Mortgage was insured by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the “Secretary”) pursuant to the National Housing Act for the purpose of providing single family housing; andWHEREAS, the beneficial interest in the Reverse Mortgage is now owned by the Secretary, pursuant to an as-signment dated May 19, 2017, and recorded on June 16, 2017, under Book T2048, Page 1949 in the real property records of Madison County, Tennessee; andWHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Reverse Mortgage in that the Mortgag-ors are now deceased; andWHEREAS, the entire amount delin-quent as of September 14, 2020 is $89,141.28; andWHEREAS, by virtue of the default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Reverse Mortgage to be imme-diately due and payable;NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to pow-ers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR part 27, subpart B, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Com-

missioner, recorded in the real property records of Madison County, Tennessee under Book T2099, Page 1670, Instru-ment number 19008642, notice is hereby given that on September 14, 2020, on or about 1:00PM local time, all real property at or used in connection with the following described premises (“Property”) will be sold at public auc-tion to the highest bidder:120 ALEXANDER STREET, JACKSON, TN 38301MAP 77F GROUP A PARCEL 20 (TWO TRACTS)LYING AND BEING IN MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:TRACT 1: BEGINNING AT A STAKE IN THE SOUTH MARGIN OF ALEXANDER STREET, 400 FEET WEST OF THE WEST MARGIN OF NEELY STREET EX-TENDED, RUNS THENCE WESTERLY 50 FEET TO A STAKE, A CORNER OF LOT 21; THENCE SOUTHWARD AND PARALLEL WITH NEELY STREET EXTENDED 140 FEET TO A 10 FOOT ALLEY; THENCE EASTWARDLY WITH THE NORTH MARGIN OF SAID 10 FOOT ALLEY 50 FEET TO A STAKE, A CORNER OF LOT 19; THENCE NORTH-WARD AND PARALLEL WITH NEELY STREET EXTENDED 140 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING AND BEING LOT 20 IN BLOCK 2 OF THE WEST END ADDITION TO THE CITY OF JACKSON AS APPEARS OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 1, AT PAGE 105 IN THE ROMCT. (LEGAL DESCRIPTION TAKEN FROM PRIOR DEED.)TRACT 2: BEING A PORTION OF THE WEST END ADDITION A PLAT OF WHICH APPEARS OF RECORD IN THE REGISTER`S OFFICE OF MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE IN BOOK 1 AT PAGE 105 BEGINNING AT A STAKE IN THE SOUTH SIDE OF ALEXANDER STREET 50 FEET EAST OF THE EAST MARGIN OF ANDERSON AVENUE; RUNS THENCE IN A SOUTHEAST-ERLY DIRECTION PARALLEL WITH ANDERSON AVENUE 140 FEET TO A STAKE IN AN ALLEY; THENCE IN A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION WITH SAID ALLEY 50 FEET TO A STAKE; THENCE IN A NORTHWESTERLY DI-RECTION 140 FEET TO A STAKE IN ALEXANDER STREET; THENCE AT A SOUTHWARDLY DIRECTION 50 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING AND BEING DESIGNATED AS LOT 21 OF BLOCK 2 OF THE EAST END ADDITION.(LEGAL DESCRIPTION TAKEN FROM PRIOR DEED)BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CON-VEYED TO JAMES ROBERSON AND WIFE, MATTIE ROBERSON BY DEED OF RECORD IN DEED BOOK D694, PAGE 1653, REGISTER`S OFFICE OF MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE.Commonly known as: 120 Alexander St, Jackson, TN 38301.Tax ID: 77F-A-020.00The sale will be held in Madison County, Tennessee at the following location: at the Main entrance (North Door) of the Madison County Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee.The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $97,456.08.There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorate share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.When making their bids, all bidders except the Secretary must submit a de-posit totaling $9,745.61 in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. A deposit need not accompany each oral bid. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of $9,745.61 must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within 30 days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the highest bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveying fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery date of the remainder of the payment

and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remain-der of the payment. All extensions will be for 15-day increments for a fee of $500.00, paid in advance. The exten-sion fee shall be in the form of a certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of HUD. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extension of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder may be required to forfeit the cash deposit or, at the election of the foreclosure commissioner after consultation with the HUD representative, will be liable to HUD for any costs incurred as a result of such failure. The Commis-sioner may, at the direction of the HUD representative, offer the property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Fore-closure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein. HUD does not guarantee that the property will be vacant.Other interested Parties: ESTATE OF MATTIE ROBERSON.If applicable, the notice requirements of T.C.A. §35-5-101 have been met.If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State of Tennessee Department of Labor or Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties in the advertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is being given to them and the Sale will be subject to the applicable governmental enti-ties’ right to redeem the property as required by 26 U.S.C. 7425 and T.C. A. §67-1-1433.The scheduled foreclosure sale shall be cancelled or adjourned if it is established, by documented written application of the mortgagor to the Foreclosure Commissioner not less than 3 days before the date of sale, or otherwise, that the default or defaults upon which the foreclosure is based did not exist at the time of service of this notice of default and foreclosure sale, or all amounts due under the mortgage agreement are tendered to the Foreclosure Commissioner, in the form of a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Secretary of HUD, before public auction of the property is completed.The amount that must be paid if the mortgage is to be paid in full prior the scheduled sale is $97,456.08, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the mortgage had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the neces-sary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents, a commission for the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in con-nection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.Tender of payment by certified or cashier’s check or application for cancellation of the foreclosure sale shall be submitted to the address of the Foreclosure Commissioner pro-vided below.Date: August 6, 2020Jerry BridenbaughForeclosure CommissionerMackie Wolf Zientz & Mann, P.C.7100 Commerce Way, Suite 273Brentwood, TN 37027

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE`S FORECLOSURE SALE

THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THIS IS AN

ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL

BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.WHEREAS, Jeremy Sterling and Haidy Sterling executed a Deed of Trust to Timothy E Wilson, Trustee for the ben-efit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for The Bank of Jackson on October 25, 2011and recorded on November 1, 2011 as In-strument No. 11012384 in Book T1914, Page 1206 in the Office of the Register of Madison County, Tennessee. WHEREAS, default having been made in the payment of the debt(s) and obligation(s) thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the current holder of said Deed of Trust, Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC, (the “Holder”), appointed the undersigned, McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC, as Substitute Trustee, with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; and NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Holder, and that as agent for the undersigned, McMichael Taylor Gray LLC, Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the power and authority vested in it, will on August 20, 2020, at 10:00 AM at the usual and customary location at the Madison County Courthouse, 100 East Main Street, Jackson, TN 38301, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated in Madison County, TN: Map 7 Parcel 2.03 / 52 Boyd Lane, Jackson, TN 38305Beginning at a point that is North 86 degrees 53 minutes 24 seconds East 3.54 feet from a fence corner post that is in the northwest corner of Kenneth McAlexander and the Northeast corner of Virgil McAlexander same being the South line of Charles E. Boyd 65 acre tract of land as recorded in Deed Book 185 page 501 in the Register’s Office of Madison County, Tennessee, of which the following described tract of land is part; thence South 86 degrees 52 minutes 24 seconds West 183.1 feet, thence North 32 degrees 26 minutes 18 seconds West 259.19 feet; thence North 81 degrees 55 minutes 52 sec-onds east 369.08 feet to an iron pin in the west margin of O. E. Boyd Road formerly Old Stage Road, thence South 07 degrees 55 minutes 41 seconds East 160.71 feet; thence South 03 degrees 51 minutes 11 seconds East, 52.08 feet; thence South 22 degrees 18 minutes 18 seconds East 79.48 feet; thence South 25 degrees 44 minutes 10 seconds East 69.26 feet; thence South 15 degrees 53 minutes 49 seconds East

Foreclosure NoticesFayette County

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE

Sale at public auction will be on Sep-tember 8, 2020, at or about 10:00 AM, local time, at the south front door of the Fayette County Courthouse, 1 Court Square, Somerville, TN 38068, pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by Robert L. Holmes, Jr. and Juanita J. Holmes, Tenants by the Entirety, to William C. Ford, as Trustee for Conseco Bank, Inc. dated May 24, 2000, and recorded in Book D546, Page 856, and modified in Instrument No. 13006674, and Instrument No. 14000344 in the Register’s Office for Fayette County, Tennessee (“Deed of Trust”), conduct-ed by Padgett Law Group, having been appointed Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Fayette County Register’s Office. Default in the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of said Deed of Trust has been made; and the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable.Party entitled to enforce the debt: Wells Fargo Bank N.A., not in its individual or banking capacity, but solely as trustee for Green Tree 2008-MH1Other interested parties: Green Tree Servicing LLC, JP Morgan Chase Bank, as Trustee, Bank of America, N.A. and Midland Funding LLCThe hereinafter described real property located in Fayette County will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encum-brances of record:Legal Description: Lot 25 of Quail Ridge Subdivision, Phase III, as per plat of record in Plat Book 6, Page 151, and as amended in Plat Book 483, Page 242, Register`s Office of Fayette County, Tennessee. Reference is hereby made to said plat for a more particular descrip-tion of said lot. Subject to Protective Covenants for Quail Ridge Subdivision, Phase III, of record in Deed Book 469, Page 534, Register’s Office of Fayette County, Tennessee. Also subject to specific easements and restrictions as noted on the plat of record in Plat Book 6, Page 151, and as amended in Plat Book 483, Page 242, of said Register’s Office. Street Address: The street address of the property is believed to be 2570 Sinai Drive, Mason, TN 38049, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property. In the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control. Map/Parcel Number: 021 00423 000Current owner(s) of Record: Robert L. Holmes, Jr. and wife, Juanita J. HolmesThis sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded Plat or Plan; any unpaid taxes and as-sessments; any restrictive covenants, easements or setback lines that may be applicable; rights of redemption, equity, statutory or otherwise, not otherwise waived in the Deed of Trust, including rights of redemption of any government agency, state or federal; and any and all prior deeds of trust, liens, dues, assessments, encumbrances, defects, adverse claims and other matters that may take priority over the Deed of Trust upon which this foreclosure sale is conducted or are not extinguished by this Foreclosure Sale.THE PROPERTY IS SOLD WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, RELATING TO TITLE, MARKETABILITY OF TITLE, POSSESSION, QUIET ENJOYMENT OR THE LIKE AND FITNESS FOR A GENERAL OR PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE. The title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The right is reserved to adjourn the sale to another time certain or to another day, time, and place certain, without further publication upon an-nouncement on the day, time, and place of sale set forth above or any subsequent adjourned day, time, and place of sale.If you purchase a property at the fore-closure sale, the entire purchase price is due and payable at the conclusion

of the auction in the form of a certified check made payable to or endorsed to Padgett Law Group. No personal checks will be accepted. To this end, you must bring sufficient funds to out-bid the lender and any other bidders. Insufficient funds will not be accepted. Amounts received in excess of the winning bid will be refunded to the successful purchaser at the time the foreclosure deed is delivered.This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded by the Substitute Trustee at any time.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.Padgett Law Group, Substitute Trust-ee6267 Old Water Oak Road, Suite 203Tallahassee, FL 32312(850) 422-2520 (telephone)(850) 422-2567 (facsimile)attorney@padgettlawgroup.comPLG# 17-010249-2Aug. 14, 21, 28, 2020 Fpn14601

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Foreclosure NoticesTipton County

Notice of Self Storage SalePlease take notice Midgard Self Stor-age - Jackson TN located at 4355 HWY 45 North Jackson TN 38305 intends to hold a sale of property stored from storage units in default of payment. The sale will occur as an online auc-tion via www.storageauctions.com on 8/19/2020 at 1:00pm. Trenton LaPlace unit #185; Robert Walker unit #243. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice.Aug. 14, 2020 Mpn14596

Notice of Self Storage SalePlease take notice Midgard Self Stor-age - Oakland TN located at 130 Pierce Rd Oakland TN 38060 intends to hold a sale of property stored from storage units in default of payment. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storageauctions.com on 8/19/2020 at 1:00pm. James R Barker unit #346; Michael Morriss unit #P051. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice.Aug. 14, 2020 Mpn14597

(615) 238-3630(615) 777-4517 FaxMWZM File: 20-000047-430-1TN INVESTORS PAGE: HTTP://MWZM-LAW.COM/TN_INVESTORS.PHPAug. 14, 21, 28, 2020 Fpn14599

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE`S FORECLOSURE SALE

THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT,

AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.WHEREAS, Robyn Ryan and Davis Ryan executed a Deed of Trust to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee for the benefit of Bank of America, N.A on September 12, 2006 and recorded on September 13, 2006 as Instrument No. 06016482 in Book T1772 Page 1604 in the Office of the Register of Madison County, Tennessee. WHEREAS, default having been made in the payment of the debt(s) and obligation(s) thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the current holder of said Deed of Trust, Wilming-ton Savings Fund Society, FSB, dba Christiana Trust, as owner trustee on behalf of CSMC 2018-RPL12 Trust, (the “Holder”), appointed the undersigned, McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC, as Substi-tute Trustee, with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; and NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Holder, and that as agent for the undersigned, McMichael Taylor Gray LLC, Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the power and authority vested in it, will on September 10, 2020, at 11:00 AM at the usual and customary location at the Madison County Courthouse, 100 East Main Street Jackson, TN 38301 proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated in Madison County, TN: Map 12, Parcel 48.02Being Lot No. 128, Phase I, Winchester Place Estates, a plat of which appears of record in Plat Book 10, page 326, and revised at Page 326, and revised at Page 335, in the Register’s Office of Madison County, Tennessee, reference to which plat is hereby made for a more particular description of said lot.Being the property described in the Deed recorded in Deed Book 683, Page 812, in the Register’s Office for Madison County, Tennessee. Street Address: 29 Stockton Cove

the debt secured, Pinnacle Bank, having requested the undersigned to advertise and sell the property described in and conveyed by said Deed of Trust, all of said indebtedness having matured by default in the payment of a part thereof, at the option of the owner, this is to give notice that the undersigned will, on Friday, September 4, 2020 commencing at 10:00 AM, at the Front (North) Door of the Courthouse, Covington, Tipton County, Tennessee proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property, to-wit: Situated in County of Tipton, State of Tennessee.LAND situated in Tipton County, Ten-nessee, and being more particularly described as follows, to wit:BEGINNING at a point in the center of the Covington to Charleston blacktop road, said point being the southwest corner of the C.B. Reed 4.6 acre tract of which this survey is a part also being the northwest corner, of the Lawrence Glenn lot, formerly owned by Thomas Ruffin; runs thence with the center of the blacktop road, N 42 1/2° W 100 feet to a point in the center of the road; thence N 80° E 348 feet to a stake; thence S 43 1/2° E 135 feet to a stake in the south line of Reed and the north line of Glenn; thence with their lines S 86 1/4° W 365 feet to the beginning and containing I acre, more or less, ac-cording to the survey of Milton Thornton, surveyor, made on April 19,1971.Subject to easements, restrictions, and covenants of record, if any.Tax Parcel ID: 042-064.01Property Address: 1090 Highway 179, Covington, TN 38019Other Interested Parties: Walter Gaines All right and equity of redemption, homestead and dower waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.

ARNOLD M. WEISS, Substitute Trustee

Law Offices of Arnold M. Weiss PLLC208 Adams Avenue

Memphis, Tennessee 38l0390l-526-8296

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALEWHEREAS, default has occurred

in the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note dated July 1, 2003, and the Deed of Trust of even date securing the same, recorded July 11, 2003, in Book No. 1079, at Page 318, in Office of the Register of Deeds for Tipton County, Tennessee, executed by Shad D Simp-son and Leslie R Simpson, conveying certain property therein described to David R. Wilson as Trustee for Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation; and the undersigned, Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed Suc-cessor Trustee by Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable; and that an agent of Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue of the power, duty, and author-ity vested in and imposed upon said Successor Trustee, by Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper, will, on September 15, 2020 on or about 10:00 AM, at the Tipton County Courthouse, Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the highest bidder FOR certified funds paid at the conclusion of the sale, or credit bid from a bank or other lending entity pre-approved by the successor trustee. The sale is free from all ex-emptions, which are expressly waived in the Deed of Trust, said property being real estate situated in Tipton County, Tennessee, and being more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at an iron pin found at the southeast corner of the Dudley Bowden, tract recorded in Deed Book 845, Page 864 said Point being in the northR.O.W. line of Highway 59 (60’ R O W.) then south 63 deg 30’00” West 20.00 feet along the said R.O.W. line to a point; then along the east

line of the McGowan tract (DB 207, PG 410) the following three courses; North 05 deg 30’ 36” West 64.00 feet; North 30 deg. 37’ 39” West, 166.00 feet to a point; North 07 deg. 36’ 16” West 73.00 feet to an iron pin found; then along the east, south & west lines of the Bowden tracts recorded In Deed Book 736 Pages 104& 109 the following six courses; North 07 deg. 14’ 16” West, 21.47 foot (called22’) to an iron pin found; North 62 deg. 47’ 13” East 110.96 feet (called 110.40) to an iron pin found; South 04 deg 20’ 12” East, 23.76 feet (called 22’) to an iron pin found; South 18 deg. 01’ 05” East, 87.53 feet (called 88’) to an iron pin found; South 45 deg. 53’ 58” West 27.39 feet (called 25’) to an iron pin foundSouth 03’ 20’ 48” East 216.36” feet to the Point of Beginning. ALSO KNOWN AS: 2288 Highway 59 West, Covington, TN 38019

This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive cov-enants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any govern-mental agency, state or federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and to any matter that an ac-curate survey of the premises might disclose. In addition, the following parties may claim an interest in the above- referenced property:SHAD D SIMPSON LESLIE R SIMPSONFMLS, INC.

The sale held pursuant to this No-tice may be rescinded at the Successor Trustee’s option at any time. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. In the event of inclement weather, the trustee hereby announces that the sale will be postponed for a period of two weeks. In such situations, notices will be mailed to interested parties of record. W&A No. 347915

DATED August 7, 2020WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C.,

Successor TrusteeAug. 14, 21, 28, 2020 Fpn14600

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE Default having been made in the payment of the debts and obligations secured to be paid by a certain Deed of Trust executed May 17, 2016 by Caliah Gaines to Hugh M. Queener, as Trustee, as same appears of record in the office of the Register of Tipton County, Ten-nessee, in Book 1687, Page 634, and the undersigned having been appointed Substitute Trustee by instrument re-corded in Book 1831, Page 961, in the said Register’s Office, and the owner of

Humboldt, TN 38343 Parcel Number: 012J-E-028.00

Current Owner: Robyn Ryan and Davis RyanOther Interested Party(ies): Alan L. Sallee, Jr.

This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; any deed of trust; and any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose; and All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust. The undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded by the Substitute Trustee at any time. This office is attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. McMichael Taylor Gray LLCSubstitute Trustee3550 Engineering Drive Suite 260Peachtree Corners, GA 30092Office: 404-474-7149Fax: 404-745-8121MTG: TN2020-00281Aug. 14, 21, 28, 2020 Fpn14602

Court Notices

IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF FAYETTE COUNTY, TENNESSEE

Docket No. 11-JV-70IN THE MATTER OF: Lylee Marie Meyer,DOB 12/29/2010Child under 18 years old

ORDER ON CONTINUANCE This cause came to be heard on the 8th day of July, 2020, upon Amended Petition to Adjudicate Minor Depen-dent and/or Neglected and to Appoint Permanent Guardianship to Maternal Grandparents filed by the Petitioners, Arthur L. Bruce and Sharon Bruce (here-inafter referred to as “Grandparents”), against the Respondent, Hunter Meyer (hereinafter referred to as “Father”). Present before the Court were Grand-parents and Suzanne Brown, counsel for Grandparents. As of July 8th, Father had not been located nor had he been served. The Court gave Grandparents time to either personally serve Father or serve Father by publication, and continued this matter until Septem-ber 9, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. IT IS SO ORDERED. This 20th day of July, 2020.

HONORABLE JIM GALLAGHERApproved for entry:THE LANDERS FIRM, PLCLucie K. Brackin (#22061)S. Suzanne Brown (#36088)Attorneys for Petitioners65 Union Avenue, Ninth Floor Memphis, Tennessee 38103(901) 522-1010lbrackin@landersfirm.comsbrown@landersfirm.comJuly 24, 31, Aug. 7, 14, 2020 Cpn14591

ORDER OF PUBLICATIONIN THE JUVENILE COURT OF

MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEENo. 59-53, 247

STATE OF TENNESSEEDEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN’S SER-VICES PETITIONERvs.HELEN NICOLE CROWESTEVEN PAUL MURPHY RESPONDENTIN THE MATTER OF:Noah Paul Murphy, DOB: 07/27/19

A Child Under Eighteen (18) Years of Age.

ORDER OF PUBLICATIONIt appearing to the Court from the

allegations of the Petition in this cause and the affidavit of the Petitioner that the whereabouts of the Respondent, Helen Nicole Crowe, are unknown and that ordinary process of law cannot be served upon her,

It is, therefore, ordered that Respon-dent, Helen Nicole Crowe, be served by publication of the following notice for four (4) consecutive weeks in The West Tennessee News, a newspaper of general circulation in Madison County, Tennessee.TO HELEN NICOLE CROWE:

The State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services, has filed a peti-tion against you seeking to terminate forever your parental rights to Noah Paul Murphy on the grounds that you have willfully abandoned these children and for other reasons. It appears that ordinary process of law cannot be served upon you because your whereabouts are unknown. You are, therefore, ordered to respond by appearing in Court or filing an Answer to the Petition filed against you. A copy of the Petition may be obtained at the office of the Juvenile Court of Madison County, Jackson, Tennes-see. This notice will be published for four consecutive weeks. The last date of publication will be 8/21/20. You must appear in Court on 9/22/20 at 10:30 a.m. to appear and defend, or file an Answer within 30 days, or a Default Judgment or judgment on the facts will be taken against you and a hearing to terminate your parental rights will be set. All future hearings and/ or documents filed in this cause shall be filed with the clerk and shall be considered as service upon you. You may request your copy from the clerk.

ENTER this the 28th day of July 2020.

/s/ Christy R. Little, Juvenile Court Judge

PREPARED FOR ENTRY:/s/ Zach DeFoor, BPR #032693Attorney for the State of TennesseeDept. of Children’s Services225 Martin Luther King DriveJackson TN 38301(731) 421-2000July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2020 Cpn14592

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