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…
Died, on the 30th of November, at his residence in Fayette county, Tennessee, John G. PICKENS, in the 28th year of his age. The deceased was for many years a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and died in the full triumph of living faith. (Note – there is a longer resolution as part of this article). Source: Memphis Daily Appeal, January 1, 1872
DIED – Also, at the residence of her husband, in Fayette county, Tenn., on the 29th ult., Mrs. Amelia, wife of Mr. John N. PULLIAM, aged about sixty-one year. Weekly Standard (Raleigh), February 23, 1859
DIED — On the 27th ult., in Lagrange, Tenn., John M. PULLIAM Jr.,son of Dr. J. J. PULLIAM and Lucy F. PULLIAM, aged two years and three months. Weekly Standard (Raleigh), February 23, 1859
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…
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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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…
Daily Journal and Tribune (Knoxville) August 14, 1896 Wm. Whitlock Paid the Penalty for Murdering and Officer Somerville, Tenn., August 13 — Wm. H. WHITLOCK was hanged here today in the presence of a large crowd of people. The crime for which WHITLOCK was hanged was the murder of Constable W.D. HOLLIDAY near La Grange, Tenn., on August 9, 1895. WHITLOCK died proclaiming his innocence.
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