City: Nashville POLK, James Knox; fire insurance; born Bolivar, Tenn., January 26, 1859; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Marshall T. and Evalina M. (Bills) POLK; paternal grandparents Marshall T. and Laura (Wilson) POLK, maternal grandparents John H. and Prudence (McNeal) BILLS; educated East Tennessee University, now University of Tennessee; in early […]
Daily Archives: June 7, 2014
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City: Nashville PITTS, John A., lawyer, banker; born Wayne Co., Tenn., June 3, 1849; son of John F. and Emarintha M. PITTS; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, John and Clarissa PITTS, maternal grandparents, Abraham and Nancy MONTAGUE; English descent; educated Clifton Masonic academy; graduated from law department of Cumberland University, […]
City: Nashville PILCHER, Stuart Caruthers, insurance; born Nashville, Tenn., May 15, 1879; son James Stuart and Margaret H. (Campbell) PILCHER; Scotch-Irish descent; educated in Nashville and New York; graduated Vanderbilt University (academic) 1896-1900, Columbia University (law), New York City, 1900-03, LL.B.; practiced law in Nashville four years; married Martha DOUGLASS […]
City: Nashville PILCHER, James Stuart, attorney-at-law; born Eutaw, Ala.; son Dickson Green and Jane Hope (Carothers) PILCHER; English-Scotch descent; educated Houston, Miss.; graduated Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., Jan. 1869, L.B.; married Margaret Hamilton CAMPBELL; member of Vaiden (Miss.) Light Artillery 1861-65; member Presbyterian church; paternal grandfather, John PILCHER; paternal grandmother, […]
City: Nashville MOSES, Frank Armstrong, Special Examiner Tennessee Pension Board; born Knoxville, Tenn., June 19, 1845; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James C. and Susan W. (Parks) MOSES; paternal grandparents John F. and Mary (Pearson) MOSES, maternal grandparents William and Jane (Armstrong) PARK; educated University of Knoxville; engaged in hardware business […]
City: Nashville OVERALL, John W., farmer; U. S. Marshal; born Liberty, DeKalb County, Tenn., February 7 1855; son Wesley and Arena (White) OVERALL; paternal grandparents, Jacob and Sarah (Lawrence) OVERALL; maternal grandparents, James and Mary (English) WHITE; English-German descent; educated DeKalb Public Schools, Cumb. University; graduated Cumb. University 1877; A.B.; […]
City: Nashville NOEL, Oscar Fitzallen, capitalist; born Trigg County, Ky., April 11, 1821; son of Edwin and Jennie Miller (Patterson) NOEL; father was a farmer; educated at Blue Spring Creek and Hopkinsville, Ky.; in early life he was a farmer and merchant at Nashville, Tenn.; married three times; first Sarah […]