City: Rogersville STANSILL, G.S., editor and publisher; born Hendersonville, N.C., April 13, 1862; son of S.K. and Susan J. (Blythe) STANSILL; father, merchant and U.S. Commissioner; married, first, Lorena HARDWICKE, Dec., 1886, second, Pauline SIGMON, Oct., 1906; he began his newspaper work as a printer; was later Deputy Co. Court […]
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City: Rogersville WALKER, Joseph Rogers, physician; born Rogersville, Tenn., Aug. 24, 1831; Scotch-Irish-French and Welsh descent; son of Hugh and Frances (Rogers) WALKER; father’s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents John and Margaret (Kelso) WALKER, maternal grandparents Joseph and Mary (Amis) ROGERS; educated at McMinn Academy; graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, […]
City: Rogersville WOLFE, George Lee, lawyer; born Scott Co., Va., March 1. 1864; son of John Patton and Sallie (Tarter) WOLFE; paternal grandfather Jonas WOLFE; paternal grandmother Elizabeth (McKinzie) WOLFE; maternal grandfather Andrew TARTER; maternal grandmother Alpha (Hounshell) TARTER; Scotch-German descent; father’s occupation farmer and stockman; educated Kingsby Seminary, U.S. […]
City: Paris MORRIS, William Darney, farmer; born Louisa Co., Va., June 3, 1847; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Tandy G. and Harriet E. (Mills) MORRIS; father was a farmer and stock raiser; educated Conyersville Academy, Henry Co., and graduated from same in 1859; served in C. S. A., from May 1864 […]
City: Oneida MARCUM, Marion, business man and school teacher; born Scott Co., Tenn., Jan. 25, 1874; English descent; son of J. A. and Arienia (Phillips) MARCUM;; father’s occupation farming; educated at New River (Tenn) Academy; began his career as a school teacher; married Lizzie KEETON, March, 1898; Democrat; Election Commissioner […]
The career of Ben B. Gillespie, of Gallatin, Tennessee, presents a striking example of enterprise, industry and integrity, conducing to eminent success. Reared to the work of the farm, he has continued his operations along agricultural lines to such good effect that today he is the owner of a handsome […]
For three generations at least the O’Guin family has been identified with the fortunes and affairs of Hickman County, Tennessee. Thomas O’Guin, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in the county, there grew to manhood, married, and became a prominent farmer. When the Civil War broke […]
One of the representative professional men and highly esteemed citizens of Lewis County, Tennessee, is Dr. James Franklin Whitwell, who has been a medical practitioner in that county for thirty years and has also become well known there through considerable county official service. The family to which Dr. Whitwell belongs […]
Well established in the successful practice of his profession in the thriving town of Hohenwald, Dr. William Barnabas Tucker is numbered among the representative physicians of Lewis County and prior to his locating at Hohenwald in 1907, was one of the best known members of the medical profession in the […]
It is an interesting and gratifying fact, so much has the restless, nomadic spirit grown in America, that among the representative men of Tennessee there is a remarkable percentage of native sons, men who have found in the locality of their nativity ample opportunity for successful professional, industrial and business […]
Among the immigrants to Tennessee from the state of North Carolina was Vincent S. Dabbs, who was born in the latter state in 1815, and who came with his brothers and sisters to Tennessee at an early date. They settled in Perry, Wayne and Lewis counties. Vincent S. Dabbs was […]
CITY: Waverly COOLEY, James Tilford, physician; born Waverly, Tenn., Feb. 27, 1858; of German descent; son of E. M. and S. E. (Waggoner) COOLEY; father’s occupation, farming; paternal grandparents E. J. and Elizabeth (Funk) COOLEY, maternal grandparents, Daniel and Katie (Massey) WAGGONER; educated at Waverly, Tenn. Valparaiso,, Ind. and Vanderbilt […]
CITY: Waverly BOWMAN, J. Bethel, lawyer; born Snow’s Creek, Tenn., Nov. 4, 1879; son of Thomas F. and Cordelia Ann (Wright) BOWMAN; father was a lawyer; educated at Waverly and Lebanon Tenn.; graduated from Waverly High School and Cumberland University LL. B. May, 1900; in early life was in the […]
CITY: Watertown YOUNG, Alexander, real estate dealer and trader; born Watertown, Tenn., Feb 22, 1844; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Dake and Sarah Reader (Young) YOUNG; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents, David and Lydia (Leader) YOUNG, maternal grandparents, James and Elizabeth (Phillips) YOUNG; educated at Farmers’ Academy, Round Lick, Tenn.; served […]
CITY: Watertown SMITH, John Robert, lawyer; born Statesville, Tenn., May 24, 1861; Irish and Dutch descent; son of R. T. and Amanda (Doss) SMITH; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, John Y. and Leona (Shanks) SMITH, maternal grandparents, John P. and Lucretia (Threat) DOSS; graduated from Cumberland University, June 1889; was […]
CITY: Watertown MCNABB, Andrew Asa, teacher, farmer; born Rutherford Co., Tenn., April 27, 1867; Scotch-Irish descent; son of J. F. and Louise J. (Todd) MCNABB; father was minister of the gospel; educated at Watertown, Tenn.; began teaching school at age of 18 years, and has taught successively for 24 years […]
City: Selmer WOOD, Henry Parker, lawyer; born Hardin Co., Tenn., Sept. 9, 1859; English descent; son of W. P. and Mary Elizabeth (Seay) WOOD; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents John and Mahala (Roberson) WOOD, maternal grandparents Louis and Deborah (Parker) SEAY; educated at Hardin College, Savannah, Tenn., and Missouri […]
City: Selmer WHITEHURST, Theodore Benton, lawyer and public official; born McNairy Co., Tenn., Feb. 28, 1867; English and Irish descent; son of Alfred Franklin and Ann Elizabeth (Nethery) WHITEHURST; father, school teacher; paternal grandparents Ben and Martha (Wilkerson) WHITEHURST, maternal grandparents James and Lucy (Cooper) NETHERY; educated in common and […]
City: Selmer THRASHER, Pugh H., farmer; born Florence, Ala., March 12, 1843; son of W. B. Lee and Rachel (Oldhauser) THRASHER; father, farmer; received his education in the common schools of Lauderdale Co., Ala.; served as private of 6th Tenn. Cavalry, U. S. A. during civil war; began his career […]
City: Selmer PURVIANCE, James W., editor; born Carlinville, Ill. Feb 25, 1842; French and Scotch descent; son of Robert W. and Morinda M. (Gaskill) PURVIANCE; father, farmer; paternal grandparents W. H. and Mary (Siebold) PURVAINCE, maternal grandfather James W. GASKILL; graduated from McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., B. A. degree, June […]