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Local & Personal News (March 10, 1911)

Local & Personal News (March 10, 1911)

Select items from the Local & Personal news column of the Fayette Falcon Junious HOBSON and Jno. WETZLER attended the Thirty Second Convocation, Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry, several days last week in Memphis. H.W. LIPSKY spent a few days in Memphis last week where he was carried through the mysteries of Scottish Rite Masonry. W.C. EDMONDSON, of Memphis, visited his sister, Mrs. Will RHEA Tuesday of this week. W.H. REAMES, of Oakland, was looking after business…

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CHRISTIAN, Robert N. – (b. 1842)

CHRISTIAN, Robert N. – (b. 1842)

Robert N. CHRISTIAN was born in Mississippi August 31, 1842, and is the son of Robert N. and Caroline (Suther) CHRISTIAN, natives of North Carolina.  Our subject received a fair education and was engaged in steamboating until the breaking out of the war.  At that time he entered the Confederate service as a private in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee Regiment and was afterward transferred to the Thirty-fourth Mississippi Regiment, where he remained till the close of the war. …

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CHAMBERS, Daniel G. – (b. 1835)

CHAMBERS, Daniel G. – (b. 1835)

Elder Daniel G. CHAMBERS, a well known minister of the Primitive Baptist Church, engaged in farming in Fayette County, was born in Robertson County, Tenn., January 5, 1835, and is a son of Gools B. and Rebecca (Gordon) CHAMBERS.  The father was born in Halifax County, Va., August 11, 1802, being of English descent, and died in Fayette County, Tenn., June 21, 1881.  The mother was born in Robertson County, Tenn., April 13, 1805, and was of Scotch-Irish descents and…

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CHAMBERS, Marcus (b. 1833)

CHAMBERS, Marcus (b. 1833)

Marcus L. CHAMBERS, farmer and merchant of Chambersville, Fayette County, was born in Robertson County, Tenn., February 28, 1833, and is a son of Dr. Gools B. and Rebecca (Gordon) CHAMBERS, natives of Halifax County, Va., and Robertson County, Tenn.  The father was born in 1802 and died in Fayette County in 1881.  The mother was born in 1805 and died in Fayette County in 1878.  They were married in Robertson County, Tenn., in 1823 and in 1836 moved to Fayette…

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CARNES, Stephen G.

CARNES, Stephen G.

Stephen G. CARNES, a farmer of Fayette County, was born in Hardeman County, Tenn., August 3, 1829, and with two sisters constitutes the surviving members of a family of two sons and four daughters born to David B. and Mary (Gracy) CARNES, natives of North Carolina; both came to Tennessee when young and married in Hardeman County, where they farmed until the father died in 1842; the mother died in the same county in 1875.  The father, previous to this…

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CANNON, William J.

CANNON, William J.

Dr. William J. CANNON, one of the pioneer practicing physicians of Fayette County, and one of its most influential and enterprising citizens, was born August 7, 1827, in Raleigh, N.C., and is of a family of three sons and three daughters, born to Robert and Ann T. (Hill) CANNON, who were natives of Pitt and Franklin Counties, N.C. Our subject and two sisters alone surviving.  The parents moved to Raleigh, N.C., soon after their marriage in Franklin County, and the…

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BURNETT, Joshua E.

BURNETT, Joshua E.

Joshua E. BURNETT, farmer and stock raiser of Fayette County, was born in Iredell County, N.C., August 17, 1834, and is a son of Jeremiah and Mary (Ellis) BURNETT.  The father was born in South Carolina, September 18, 1807, and is now seventy-six years old.  They moved to Tennessee in 1849 and settled twelve miles south of Somerville; two years later they moved three miles further north where they have since lived.  The father has always been a farmer; he…

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THARP, Jesse – Celebrates 81st Birthday (1911)

THARP, Jesse – Celebrates 81st Birthday (1911)

Fayette Falcon March 3, 1911 Hon. H.B. THARP, of Macon, and Julian THARP, of Oakland, attended last Monday in Jackson, the celebration of the 81st birthday of their father, Esq. Jesse THARP, long a resident of Macon, Fayette county.  Esq. THARP was long prominent in the business and political affairs of this county, where he lived many years, until four or five years ago, when he removed from Macon to Jackson to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. W.H….

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Misc. Obituaries & Deaths

Misc. Obituaries & Deaths

The following deaths are for individuals associated with the county.  Please let me know if you have contributions to offer.

BURNETT, Joshua E.

BURNETT, Joshua E.

Joshua E. BURNETT, farmer and stock raiser of Fayette County, was born in Iredell County, NC, August 17, 1834, and is a son of Jeremiah and Mary (Ellis) BURNETT.  The father was born in South Carolina, September 18, 1807, and is now a resident of Fayette County, aged seventy-nine years. The mother was born in North Carolina January 20, 1810 , and is now seventy-six years old.  They moved to Tennessee in 1840 and settled twelve miles south of Somerville;…

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