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J. F. Robertson, merchant and farmer, residing at Crockett Mills, was
born in North Carolina, in 1834, and is now the only surviving member of
a family of four children of Asa and M. A. (Sewell) Robertson, born in
North Carolina in 1804 and 1808, and died in 1865 and 1877, respectively.
They came to Tennessee in the fall of 1843 and located on the farm where
our subject now resides. The latter was educated in the district school
near his home and in 1857 married Artemisia, daughter of William and Mary
Evans. Mrs. Robertson was born near Brownsville, in 1838, and died in 1859.
In the fall of 1868 Mr. Robertson took for his second wife, Nannie Dickinson,
who was born in Tennessee, in 1848, and died in 1871. By that union he
has one daughter � Miss Rosa M. Mr. Robertson owns 2,465 acres of land
and has always followed farming and merchandising for a living. He is the
largest land-holder in the county and his home farm consists of 1,200 acres
in one tract. Since 1867 he has been engaged in the mercantile business,
in which he is quite successful. In 1873 he married Miss L. A. Hamlett,
daughter of G. D. Hamlett. Mrs. Robertson is a native of Davidson County,
born in 1854, and is the mother of one daughter, Georgie. Mr. Robertson
was elected magistrate of his district upon the organization of the county
and has been re-elected each succeeding term and now holds the office.
In 1882 he built a fine brick church of the Christian denomination near
where he resides, and two good schoolhouses at Crockett Mills. He has perhaps
done more in erecting public buildings than any other man in the county,
and takes great interest in educational and religious matters. He has always
been a Democrat in politics and he and wife are members of the Christian
Church. In 1861 he joined Company D, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, and participated
in the battles of Harrisburg, Corinth; Franklin and Nashville, besides
many others of less note. He returned home in the spring of 1865.
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