Green C. Ledbetter, a successful planter of Perry County,
Tenn., was born April 12, 1824, and was the seventh of twelve children of
Henry and Anna (Phillips) Ledbetter, and is of Irish descent. His father,
a native of North Carolina, was born about 1788, and was reared and
married in his native State. Within a few years after his marriage he
immigrated to Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County, where he lived
until 1837, when he moved to Perry County and established himself on Lick
Creek, where he continued to reside until his death, May 14, 1860. The
mother was born in North Carolina about 1789, and died at the old
homestead August 12, 1870. Our subject received a limited education, and
has made farming his chief business through life. He was married, in Perry
County, to Eliza Elizabeth Terry, daughter of Jason Terry. Of their nine
children eight are living: Mary A. L., Sarah E., Jane, Nancy M., Eliza,
Columbus W., Sion H. and Henry. The mother of this family was born in
North Carolina, and was brought by her parents to Tennessee when a small
child. They afterward moved to Perry County. Our subject is a stanch
Republican, with very conservative, liberal and intelligent views on the
political questions of the day. Mr. Ledbetter was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and during its separation he was taken,
without his consent, into the Southern wing, although he preferred
remaining with the old church. He owns 1,500 acres of land, on which is
valuable iron ore, and also abundant evidences of coal, with splendid
timber and numerous springs of pure water, which flow the year around. |