John P. Grimes was born in Dickson County, Tenn., October 10, 1842, being a son of Joe and Hulda Jane (Walker) Grimes. At the age of seventeen years he enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 under Capt. Malroy, Company E. Eleventh Tennessee Regiment, for … Continue reading →
Joe Grimes was born in Dickson County, Tenn., October 1, 1809, being the sixth of thirteen children born to the marriage of John and Margery (Carmack) Grimes. Both parents were natives of Virginia; the father was born January 2, 1775, and the mother in … Continue reading →
Thomas S. Curtis was born at the old Cumberland Rolling-Mills, Stewart County, Tenn., July 26, 1855. His father was born at Spring Hill, Maury County, and at the age of fifteen began the manufacture of pig-iron. When eighteen years of age he was … Continue reading →