City: Troy INMANN, Thomas Redis, farmer, born McNairy Co., Tenn., July 22, 1839; Irish descent; son of Abraham and Melissa (Branch) INMAN; father’s occupation, farmer and blacksmith; educated in the local schools of Obion Co., Tenn.; enlisted in Co. “B,” 27th Tenn. Infantry, C.S.A., 1861, and served as Second Lieut. […]
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City: Nashville KERN, John Adam, Professor Vanderbilt University; born Frederick County, Va., April 23, 1846; German-English descent; son of Nimrod and Eliza (Bentley) KERN; father, farmer and ice dealer; paternal grandparents Adam and Margaret (Rittenour) KERN, maternal grandparents George and Catherine (Hoover) BENTLEY; educated Winchester High School, Winchester Seminary and […]
City: Eaton HOOVER, W. H., banker; born Eaton, Tenn., May 11, 1875; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Bryon and Euphemia (Hodge) HOOVER; paternal grandparents John and Lydia (Waller) HOOVER, maternal grandparents Samuel H. and Sarah Currie (Mitchell) HODGE; received common school education; began life as a farmer; married Elizabeth TYREE Dec. […]
Town: Charleston CROX, William Harrison, farmer; born Loudon, Tenn., Nov. 26, 1868; Dutch and Irish descent; son of Henry Alfred and Susan Jane (Eldridge) CROX; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents John and Eliza (Hoover) CROX; maternal grandparents John and Martha (Butler) ELDRIDGE; educated at Loudon, Tenn.; married Louisa McCLARY July […]