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Goodspeed’s Biography of John Lilburn McLean

Goodspeed’s Biography of John Lilburn McLean

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John L. McLean, county trustee, was born in this county December 4, 1840, the son of Samuel D. and Elizabeth C. (Wasson) McLean, natives, respectively, of Kentucky and Indiana. Samuel D. when a boy came to this County, 1817, locating at McLean’s Spring, three miles east of Lawrenceburg. Here the grandfather, Samuel, raised a family of five sons and four daughter, and followed the occupation of…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Robert L. McLaren

Goodspeed’s Biography of Robert L. McLaren

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 R. L. McLaren was born in Lawrence County, Tenn., May 1, 1825. John McLaren, his father, was born in South Carolina, and when about twenty-three years of age married Mary McDougal, of Alabama, who bore him nine children, all residents of Texas, except our subject. The father was a farmer and an early resident of Tennessee; he died in 1863. R. L. McLaren began doing for…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of John C. McLaren

Goodspeed’s Biography of John C. McLaren

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John C. McLaren is a Bedford County, Tennessean, born in 1819. He resided on his parents’ farm until the father’s death, when he took charge of the home place, and afterward fell heir to a portion of it and purchased the remainder. It consists of 270 acres, and is in a good state of cultivation. The dwelling in which he lives was erected in 1833, and…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of James Henry McKey

Goodspeed’s Biography of James Henry McKey

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 James H. McKey was born in Alabama, 1838, son of Charles and Eveline (Fisher) McKey. Charles McKey was born in Palmetto State, and moved to Alabama with his parents about 1810, where he first married Eliza Cauthen. She died about seven months later, and he then married Miss Fisher, who bore him two children. The father was a farmer and served in the late war under…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. H. D. McClure

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. H. D. McClure

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 H.D. McClure, M.D., a prominent physician and citizen of Wayland Springs, Tenn., was born in Alabama in 1853, son of Harvey B. and Rebecca (Herbert) McClure, who were born in Tennessee and Alabama, respectively. The father was a farmer by occupation, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and a Democrat in politics. He died in Alabama in 1869. Our subject’s early days were spent…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Fred W. Cornell

Goodspeed’s Biography of Fred W. Cornell

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Fred W. Cornell was born in Michigan on the 27th of September, 1858, son of Robert and Margaret (DeLaney) Cornell, who were born in New York State. The father removed to Michigan about 1840, and there farmed until 1851, when he went to California via Chicago, Mississippi River and the Isthmus of Darien, and engaged in mining and gardening for two years at Placerville. He then…

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Lawrence County 1818 Voters List

Lawrence County 1818 Voters List

Transcribed by Reita Jones Burress (source unidentified) 1818, November List of Lawrence County, Tn. Voters James Forbes, Henson Day, David Crockett and John Hillhouse, Esquires, who were appointed at the November term, 1818, of Lawrence County Court, to take a list of Taxable property and polls and to take a list of voters according to the late Act of assembly, making provisions for taking the Census, returned into Court their several lists of voters according to law. List returned by…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Ephraim McClain

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Ephraim McClain

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Ephraim McClain, M.D., was born July 29, 1827, in Maury County, Tenn., one of twelve children born to John and Elizabeth (McMillen) McClain, who were born the year following the Declaration of Independence, and when a young man moved to Kentucky, where he married and came to Tennessee about the beginning of the present century. He was soldier of the war of 1812, and was with…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of William Giles Lumpkins

Goodspeed’s Biography of William Giles Lumpkins

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 William G. Lumpkins, farmer, is the fourth of eight children, and was born in Lawrence County, Tenn., March 1, 1844. (See James M. Lumpkins’ for parents’ sketch). He received the education and rearing of the average farm boy, and at the breaking of the late war enlisted in the Confederate service, in the Ninth Tennessee Cavalry, and served two years, taking an active part in the…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of James Marvin Lumpkins

Goodspeed’s Biography of James Marvin Lumpkins

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 James M. Lumpkins is the eldest of eight children, and was born on Knob Creek April 26, 1837, son of William H. Lumpkin, who was born in North Carolina in 1811, and came to Tennessee when a young man. He married Eliza Smith and reared his family. He breathed his last at the old homestead when about sixty-six years of age. The mother was born September…

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