The following record was copied from the family bible of Henry and Virginia Stack Baggett, and is at present in the possession of their daughter, Mrs. Jenny Baggett Lipscomb of Thomasville, Cheatham County, Tennessee, district #4, sixteen miles from Ashland City, Tennessee.

Copied by Mrs. Edna W Hunter, Ashland City, Tennessee- May 17, 1938.

H. W Baggett was born Nov. 12, 1853 in Montgomery County. In 1878 he married Virginia Stack of Cheatham County, to this union were born seventeen children, fourteen of whom are now living. A son, Samuel Baggett, died while he was serving as Sheriff of Cheatham County. Dr John F Baggett is now Presiding Elder of the Nashville District of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The Baggett family were all members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and were Democrats.

BIRTHS
H W Baggett was born November 12, 1853
Virginia Stack was born October 7, 1861
J E Baggett was born July 29, 1879
H. S Baggett was born November 11, 1880
Callie Baggett was born February 9, 1882
Lizzie Baggett was born May 6, 1883
R L Baggett was born July 31, 1884
Jennie Baggett was born November 4, 1885
J F Baggett was born August 28, 1887
E W Baggett was December 29, 1888
C H Baggett was born April 15, 1890
Sallie Baggett was born November 26, 1891
B T Baggett was born March 1, 1894
Virgie Baggett was born October 3, 1897
A B Baggett was born June 30, 1900
R P Baggett was born September 9, 1904

DEATHS
Twins born dead April 22, 1898
H S Baggett, Died Feb. 10, 1913
Mrs. H W Baggett died November 5, 1916
H W Baggett died May 6, 1933

MARRIAGES
Irving McGhee and Sallie Baggett were married in December 1898
H S Baggett and Myrtle Frey were married in 1901
Willie Wilson and Lizzie Baggett were married in November 1901
R L Baggett and Zora Evans were married in April 1906
J F Baggett and Eva Harper were married in 1904
T A Libscomb and Jennie Baggett were married December 31, 1905
Herbert Nichols and Sallie Baggett were married in November 1910
Comer Baggett and Sallie Elliott were married in November 1912
E W Baggett and Margaret Reeks were married in 1914
Eunice Baggett and Myrtle Baggett were married in 1915
A B Baggett and Annie Hunter were married in 1920
B T Baggett and Crace Woods were married in 1919
R P Baggett and Mattie Morris were married in 1935
 

(Source: WPA Bible And Tombstone Records, Cheatham Co TN by Edna Hunter,1939, Edited and Published by Debbie and Jerry Whitworth, 1987)
Submitted by Jerry

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