Member of Tennessee House, 23rd General Assembly, 1839-41; representing Hawkins County; Democrat. Born in Virginia in 1805, exact place and date and names of parents not found. Occupation: silversmith, with business in Rogersville, Hawkins County, as early as 1835; justice of the peace, 1839-1848. The maiden name of his wife, Isabella, whom he married c. 1825, is not known; children — John Eliza, Roxana, Isabella, Leonidas, William, and Martha Baugh; there were perhaps others. Died in Bradley County on September 28, 1852; place of burial not given.<\/p>\n
Sources: Goodspeed, History of Hawkins County<\/em>, 878; Hawkins County Circuit Court Minute Book, 1817-1845, p. 48; U.S. Census, 1850, Bradley County; information supplied by Prentiss Price, Rogersville.<\/p>\n From Biographical Directory: Tennessee General Assembly, 1796-1967, Issue 3<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Member of Tennessee House, 23rd General Assembly, 1839-41; representing Hawkins County; Democrat. Born in Virginia in 1805, exact place and date and names of parents not found. Occupation: silversmith, with business in Rogersville, Hawkins County, as early as 1835; justice …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}