Martha King

Martha Nelle McClearen King, age 92, passed away peacefully on December 13, 2021 in Nashville.

Nelle was a woman whose life was dedicated to her family, and to God. And to the land where she was born and raised in Farmers Exchange, Hickman County.

She was born in 1929 in Farmers Exchange, attended the three-room school there until the tenth grade, (her mother, Miss Annie, was her teacher), and graduated from Hickman County High School in 1946. She did her undergraduate studies primarily at Austin Peay, though at one point she took two years off so that her mother could finish college. From the...