Topic - Shelby County

Shelby County is the name of nine counties in the United States of America, all named for Isaac Shelby of Kentucky. The Shelby County name gained fame in C.W. McCall's song "Classified". The largest county by population bearing the name is the one in Tennessee, which is also the largest in the state (Shelby County contains Memphis). - Source: Wikipedia

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Members of the Memphis Greenspace board take a look at the now former grave of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, in Memphis, Tenn., on Friday, June 11, 2021. Workers removed the remains of Forrest and his wife from the Tennessee park, marking another step in the process of moving their bodies out of Memphis and to a museum hundreds of miles away. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian via AP)

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Doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are seen inside of the pharmacy station at the Hamilton County Health Department's new COVID Vaccination POD at the CARTA Bus Terminal on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 in Chattanooga, Tenn. (Troy Stolt/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)

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This photo provided by attorney Kelley Henry shows Pervis Payne. A district attorney in Tennessee said Thursday, July 30, 2020 that she is fighting a request by the inmate facing execution in December to have a judge order DNA testing of evidence in his case. Shelby County district attorney Amy Weirich said a bag of evidence reviewed by Payne's lawyers in an evidence property room last year came from a different case that has nothing to do with the 1987 stabbings of a woman and her daughter for which Payne was convicted and sentenced to death. (Kelley Henry via AP)

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Historic Memphis neighborhood rejects proposed crematorium

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In a Sept. 23, 2014 photo, Justin Ford, recently elected chairman of the Shelby County Commission, poses for a photo in Memphis, Tenn. Ford was arrested after police said he choked his girlfriend at a fast food restaurant in Memphis. Memphis police said Monday, April 24, 2017, that Shelby County Commissioner Justin Ford has been charged with aggravated assault and false imprisonment. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal via AP)

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