Capt. J. H. Joyner, M.D., farmer, stock raiser and physician, is a native of Sumner County, born in 1828, and is one of a family of six children born to Robert and Mary (Hargrove) Joyner, natives of North Carolina, of English descent, and born in 1802 and 1803 respectively. The father was a farmer by occupation and moved to Sumner County, Tenn., in 1810. He died in 1851. The mother died in 1881. Our subject was educated in the common schools of Sumner County, and graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville in 1850. He then came back to Sumner County and began the practice of his profession at the age of twenty-two. His father died shortly after he came home, and after his death our subject lived with his mother until the breaking out of the war. In 1862 he enlisted in the Forty-fourth Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, as private, and was soon elected captain. After the battle of Corinth he was discharged and came home, where he began the practice of his profession. In 1865 he married Mary C. Perry, a native of Davidson County, born in 1834, and the daughter of Zachariah and Jane Perry. Two children: John E. (deceased), and M. Emma, were the fruits of this union. Emma graduated at the Howard Female College, at Gallatin, in June 1886. Mr. Joiner [sic] is one of the largest stock raisers in Sumner County, and is now an extensive land owner. He is a Democrat in politics, but previous to the war was a Whig. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and organized the Goodletsville Lodge in 1856, of which he was appointed Worshipful Master by the Grand Lodge. Capt. Joyner is an excellent physician and a prominent citizen. He, his wife and daughter are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.