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James D. Vaughan Publishing Company and School of Music

James D. Vaughan Publishing Company and School of Music

Compiled and contributed by Reita Jones Burress Founder of Southern Gospel Music In 1902 James D. Vaughan moved his family to Lawrenceburg, Tn. from Giles County Co., Tn. where he was a teacher. A short while later he opened his publishing house on the Public Square in Lawrenceburg to furnish a complete gospel music service. The Vaughan Music Company published his first song book, Gospel Chimes, in 1900. Business grew steadily, and in 1909 he sold 30,000 songbooks. James D….

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Augustus Jones White

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Augustus Jones White

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Augustus J. White, M. D., is a son of George O. and Mary A. (Cole) White, who were born in Massachusetts and New York October 23, 1817, and February 27, 1820, respectively. The father came to Tennessee in 1837 and started the Sycamore Cotton Mills and built the Sycamore Powder mills. After living alternately in Massachusetts and Tennessee until 1854, he took up a permanent residence…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of George King Welch

Goodspeed’s Biography of George King Welch

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 George K. Welch, merchant, is a Tennessean, born in 1843 [see sketch of J. W. Welch for parent’s biography], and resided with his father on a farm until eighteen years of age, at which time he enlisted in the Confederate service and was in some of the hardest fought battles of the war, Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Murfreesboro being the principal ones. He served through the entire…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. John Wesley Welch, M. D.

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. John Wesley Welch, M. D.

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John W. Welch, M. D., was born in Tennessee in 1829, son of John L. and Rachel (Archer) Welch, born in South Carolina and Georgia, respectively. John L. Welch came to Tennessee with his parents in 1806. He was a farmer and lived in Lawrence County until his death in 1876. His wife died in 1873. After residing on the farm for some time John W….

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Theodore D. Vaughn

Goodspeed’s Biography of Theodore D. Vaughn

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Theodore D. Vaughn, farmer and native of the county in which he resides, was born 1840, son of Thomas and Mary A. Vaughn, who were Tennesseans by birth and died in 1863 and 1862, respectively. Our subject was reared in his parent’s farm, and resided with then until 1861, when he entered the Confederate service and participated in the battle of Fort Donelson. He was the…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Thaddeus Kosciusko True

Goodspeed’s Biography of Thaddeus Kosciusko True

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 T. K. True is a son of David H. and Ellen (Glasscock) True, and was born in Maury County, Tenn., June 16, 1839. The father was a Virginian and came to Tennessee when quite young with his father, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. David H. was a farmer and followed merchandising and stock trading for many years. He died in 1871, and his…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Darling Moses Tidwell

Goodspeed’s Biography of Darling Moses Tidwell

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Darling M. Tidwell is a son of Vincent and Phoebe (Rackley) Tidwell. The father was born in the Palmetto State, and was an early pioneer of Tennessee. Of their twelve children eight of them lived to be grown, and six served in the Confederate Army. Vincent Tidwell and his wife died in 1783 and 1883, respectively. Darling M. Tidwell was born in Tennessee in 1832, and…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of John P. Tarpley

Goodspeed’s Biography of John P. Tarpley

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John P. Tarpley was born in the “Old Dominion” November 21, 1804. His father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and came to Tennessee in 1808, and for three years was reside of Nashville, when which consisted of a few scattered log houses. A few houses marked the cities of Franklin and Columbia, and the city of Pulaski was an uninterrupted cane brake. Our subject…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of William H. Sykes

Goodspeed’s Biography of William H. Sykes

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 William H. Sykes, of Athen, Ala., formerly a resident of Lawrence County, was born in Dayton , Ohio, August 10, 1842, son of James and Elizabeth (Mulholland) Sykes, natives respectively of England and Pennsylvania. The father came to Lawrence County in 1843, and engaged in cotton manufacture northeast of Lawrenceburg at Oak Factory. He was a useful citizen and died in 1865. William H. was reared…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Col. James Lawrence Stribling

Goodspeed’s Biography of Col. James Lawrence Stribling

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Col. James L. Stribling, a prominent and well known citizen of Lawrence County, Tenn., was born in Giles County, March 9, 1829, son of Obadiah T. and Mary (Smithson) Stribling, natives respectively of South and North Carolina. The father came to Tennessee in 1818 and practiced medicine there in Athens, Ala., until 1829, when he came to Lawrenceburg, where he resided at the time of his…

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