Everett R. Sumerow, one of the enterprising farmers of the Eighth District of
Lauderdale County, was born at the present homestead November 2, 1854, and is
the oldest of four sons and four daughters, six of them now living. The
father, who was a merchant, was married twice, the first time to Ellen Smith,
and by this marriage had two children, our subject being one of them. After
the death of Mrs. Sumerow he married Missouri Jackson, by whom he had six
children. The father was born in Middle Tennessee, and moved with his parents
to West Tennessee when a boy. They located near Double Bridges, where he was
raised and married, and then moved to Missouri, near New Madrid, where his
wife died August 15, 1865, but, by her own request, she was buried in her
native State, at the present homestead, and our subject’s father was buried by
her September 9, 1884. Everett Sumerow was raised on the farm, received a
good education, and has made farming his business. He owns 100 acres of fine
farming land, giving his chief attention to stock raising. He is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in politics a Democrat, casting his
first presidential vote for Tilden. Mr. Sumerow resides at the old homestead,
which is pleasantly located with a comfortable dwelling on it. He is most
highly esteemed by those who know him.

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN