Member of Tennessee House, 32nd General Assembly, 1857-59; representing Hawkins County; Democrat. Born on February 2, 1826, near Blountville, Sullivan County; son of John B. and Elizabeth (Hicks) Hamilton. Attended common schools of Sullivan County; later removed to Church Hill, Hawkins County, where he was a farmer, merchant, and hotel owner. Married on March 12, 1850, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to Margaret Elizabeth Maxwell, daughter of James J. and Margaret (Wallace) Maxwell. Two daughters — Olivia M. (Mrs. Alexander Smith) and Ida Demetria Hamilton. Sometime justice of the peace. Baptist; moderator of Holston Baptist Association for several consecutive years; Masonic Order. In Civil War: enlisted at Camp Powell in 1861 as 1st lieutenant, Company K, 29 Tennessee Infantry; promoted to captain. Resigned on account of ill health in 1862, but re-enlisted in 18?? in Captain Miller’s Company of local defense troops, District 5, Hawkins County. Died near Church Hill on December 18, 1880; ?????? McPheeter’s Bend Baptist Church Cemetery, Hawkins County. Son of John B. Hamilton and grandfather of B?rt E. Smith, sometime members Tennessee General Assembly.<\/p>\n
Sources: Goodspeed, History of Hawkins County<\/em>, 1229; Hawkins County Will Book, 1797-1886, Pt. 2, pp. 530-33; U.S. Census, 1880, Hawkins County; Tennessee Confederate Records, Reels 239, 357; information supplied by great-granddaughter, Mrs. Patricia S. Trolinger, Church Hill.<\/p>\n From Biographical Directory: Tennessee General Assembly, 1796-1967, Issue 3<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Member of Tennessee House, 32nd General Assembly, 1857-59; representing Hawkins County; Democrat. Born on February 2, 1826, near Blountville, Sullivan County; son of John B. and Elizabeth (Hicks) Hamilton. Attended common schools of Sullivan County; later removed to Church Hill, …<\/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-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","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=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}