J. R. Bosson, a well known and enterprising farmer of Walling Station, was born in White County, April 17, 1846, of French-Swede and Scotch descent. He is a son of Charles T. and Sarah Bell (Reed) Bosson. The father was born April 17, 1796, in Rocksboro, Mass., and immigrated to Tennessee about 1842. After remaining at Rock Island a short time he moved to the falls of Caney Fork, where he lived until the late war. He there located at Murfreesboro, where he died about 1865. The mother was a native of Lexington, Ky., and died April 17, 1846. Our subject was raised on a farm, and owing to delicate health, received but a limited education. At the age of seventeen he engaged as a salesman in the merchandise business at Murfreesboro, so continuing until the close of the war. He then began farming in this county to which occupation he has since given his attention, and in which he has been very prosperous. He is a valuable and respected citizen, interested in the advancement of educational, and all enterprises of a beneficial nature. He is a Republican. In October 8, 1868, he married Miss Amanda, daughter of Carter and Caroline (Sparkman) Dillon. The fruits of this union are Charles T., Edward E., Sarah B., Carter D., Caroline B., Sue M., James B. and Francis M.

Source:   Goodspeed Pub. Co. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of the Counties of White, Warren, Coffee, DeKalb, and Cannon, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.