Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886

James W. Garrett, register of Lawrence County, is a native of Washington County, Ark., and born January 20, 1859, the son of Joseph and Millie E. (Rice) Garrett, natives of Tennessee. The parents moved from Hickman County, Tenn., to Arkansas, in 1858. When the late war broke out the father enlisted in the Confederate service as a lieutenant, and afterward became a wagon master. He contracted sickness in the service and died. His wife returned to Hickman County in 1866, where she still resides. James W. was reared on a farm, and when seventeen years old began farming for himself. He taught school and soon went to Lawrenceburg, and attended school there ten months, and then engaged as clerk in the mercantile business. In 1879 he engaged for himself in the mercantile business, and continued until the autumn of 1884. Politically Mr. Garrett is a strong Democrat. At the age of twenty-one years he was elected magistrate, and in 1882 was elected register of the county. June 8, 1882, he married Miss Alice L. Chaffin, who had borne her husband one son — Joseph C. Deceased. Mr. Garrett and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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