Richard S. SEAL, farmer, was born in Hawkins, now Hancock County, February 14, 1831, the son of Noel and Nancy (Frost) SEAL, of Irish-English and Irish origin respectively, and natives of Hawkins County, the former born July 30, 1798, and deceased November 29, 1873, and the latter born June 8, 1806, and deceased December 1, … Read more
Alexander M. CLOUD, farmer, was born at Tazewell January 3, 1847, the son of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth M. (Shutlz) CLOUD, of Irish and German origin, and natives, the former of Hawkins County, born in November, 1802, and deceased in 1880, and the latter born in Claiborne County in 1829, and still living. After their … Read more
Andrew W. CAMPBELL, merchant and farmer, was born in Hawkins County, November 26, 1840, the son of Joseph and Frankie (Vermillion) CAMPBELL, natives of Hawkins County and Lee County, Virginia. After marriage in Lee County, they settled at Sneedville as farmers, for about eight years, and, after twenty years in Hawkins County, came to Claiborne, … Read more
THOMAS H. COLDWELL was born in Shelbyville August 29, 1822. His father, John Campbell COLDWELL, was born January 8, 1791, in Hawkins County, Tenn., and removed with his father, Ballard COLDWELL, and family to Bedford County, January 1, 1807. John Campbell COLDWELL served two campaigns under Gen. Jackson, one against the Creek Indians, in which … Read more
G. S. W. CRAWFORD, professor of mathematics in Maryville College, was born in Knox County, Tenn., August 20, 1849. He was reared on a farm, and graduated from the college of which he is now professor, in 1871. He studied at Union Theological Seminary, New York, two years, and at Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, one … Read more
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