City: Woodbury HAWES, Robert Rush, merchant, farmer; born Cookeville, Tenn., Aug. 14, 1861; son of James Oscar and Harriet N. (Cooke) HAWES; father, merchant; paternal grandparents, William and Tabitha (Quarles) HAWES, maternal grandparents, Richard F. and Margaret (Cox) COOKE; educated at Hughes and Mims Male Academy, Edgefield, Tenn.; in early […]
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City: Winchester WHITAKER, Matt N., lawyer; born Mulberry, Tenn., January 29, 1860; son of Newton and ____ (Winn) WHITAKER; English descent; father’s occupation, farmer; graduated Mulberry Institute in 1878; married Florence J. WHITAKER, October 15, 1885; member Masons, K. of P., and Elks; Attorney General; member of Baptist Church; Democrat. […]
City: Winchester HULING, Matthew Marshall, physician; born Concord, Tenn., July 8, 1872; Scotch-Irish and French descent; son of D. C. and Cynthia A. (Keith) HULING; father, carpenter; paternal grandparents, Thomas A. and Julia A. (Holt) HULING; educated at Ewing and Jefferson College, Ewing, Tenn., and graduated from same A. B. […]
City: Winchester ESTILL, Floyd, lawyer; born Winchester, Tenn., Nov. 18, 1858; Scotch descent; son of Francis Thomas and Kathryn (Garner) ESTILL; father’s occupation, lawyer; paternal grandparents, Wallace and Elinor (Crabb) ESTILL, maternal grandparents, Calaway and Beulah (Wadlington) GARNER; educated Carrick Academy; in early life taught school; read law one year […]
City: Winchester CLARK, Rufus Anthony, teacher; born Coffee County, Tenn., November 20, 1846; son of James A. and Amelia (Wilkinson) CLARK; Scotch-Irish descent; father’s occupation, farming; educated Beech Grove, Tenn.; married Ellen HENDERSON, June 26, 1879; worked on farm until twenty years of age; taught school five months at Wartrace, […]
City: Whiteville SIMMONS, Eugene, editor; born Hardeman Co., Tenn., Nov. 21, 1887; son of Jas. F. and Mary E. (Sammons) SIMMONS; educated public school at Whiteville, Union University, Jackson, Tenn.; member K. of P.; lived on farm near Whiteville, Tenn.; until 16 years of age when family moved to Whiteville […]
City: Whiteville RUSSELL, Robert Sidney, dentist; born Danceyville, Fayette Co., Tenn., Oct. 23, 1867; son of John A. and Sophia (Davis) RUSSELL; Scotch-Irish descent; educated Danceyville Academy; graduate in Dentistry at Baltimore, Md.; married Mary L. ATKINS Dec. 18, 1896; moved to Whiteville, Tenn., from Fulton, Ky., in 1904; engaged […]
A well-known and popular citizen of Hohenwald, Tennessee, was Raymond Crawford Hooper, who was twenty years in the service of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company and for the last twelve years had charge of that company’s interests at Hohenwald as station agent, during which time he so […]
It is noteworthy that many of the sturdy and useful citizens of the United States either came from Germany or are of German extraction. Moritz Schubert, the father of Fred L., was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1824, and about 1845 left the Fatherland to seek his fortune in America. […]