Rubble from Forrest exhumation mars Health Sciences Park
The collapse of the barrier fence along Union allowed this jogger on Thursday, Sept. 2, to stop and take a photo of the rubble where Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife had been buried in Health Sciences Park. (Tom Bailey/Daily Memphian)
The Forrests’ reburial ceremony on Sept. 18 in Middle Tennessee may come sooner than restoration of Health Sciences Park.
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Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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