Holston Conference has been blessed with many noble spirits, certainly with those who have presided over parsonages. Somehow they have felt the inner urgings, not only of the tides that flow through the parsonage, but also of those which surge through the congregation, and in this exhibiting consecration, inspiration, and […]
Monthly Archives: July 2014
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Mrs. Irene BLAIR NEFF was born at Jonesboro, Tenn., in 1849. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. BLAIR. Her mother died when she was a small child and she spent the greater part of her girlhood in the home of her sister, who was the wife […]
Sarah Jane, daughter of Jackson and Martha GRUBB, was born March 3, 1870, and in the early morning of October 16th, 1938 in the home of her daughter, Mrs. E.L. PAISLEY, of Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, passed away into life Eternal. Mrs. HASH was converted […]
Mrs. J. M. EMERT, beloved wife of the late Rev. J. M. EMERT, born March 27, 1866, passed in holy triumph to her heavenly home July 25, 1940. She is lovingly remembered by a host of friends in Holston Conference where her husband gave many years to the work of […]
Mrs. Adelia BATES DICKEY died in Los Angeles, California, January 12th, 1940. She was the widow of the Rev. John P. DICKEY, who was “admitted into the Holston Conference” in 1871, and spent the greater part of his life in preaching and teaching. Mrs. DICKEY was born August 8th, 1856, […]
City: St. Louis, Missouri FOLK, Joseph Wingate, lawyer, statesman, ex-governor; born Brownsville, Tenn., Oct. 28, 1869; German-Italian descent; son of Henry Bate and Martha (Estes) FOLK, and brother of Dr. E. E. FOLK, editor of “The Baptist and Reflector,” and Reau E. FOLK, ex-treasurer of the State of Tennessee; his […]
City: Lafayette WEST, Perry Bunyan, traveling salesman; born Walnut Shade, Tenn., Dec. 22, 1872; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Jesse and Sarah F. (HUDDLESTON) WEST; father’s occupation farmer; trustee and clerk and master of Chancery Court, Macon county; educated at Lafayette, Tenn. and Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.; in early life taught […]
City: Lafayette FAUST, Thomas Emmett, attorney-at-law; born Trousdale county, Tenn., March 29, 1861; English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of Joseph E. and Mary (Kearly) FAUST; father’s occupation mechanic and millwright; paternal grandparents Joseph and Bettie (Edmund) FAUST; maternal grandparents William and Matilda (Holt) KEARLY; educated at Lafayette, Tenn.; in early […]
City: Lafayette CARTER, Hubert, traveling salesman; born Rome, Tenn., Oct. 31, 1860; son of Edward and Louvenia K. (Bains) CARTER; father’s occupation carpenter; paternal grandparents John S. and Mary (Harrison) CARTER; maternal grandparents Sara A. and Christina (Lasiter) BAINS; educated at home; in early life he was in the retail […]
City: Kyles Ford BOWEN, Enoch D., minister of the gospel; born Hancock county, Tenn., Jan. 30, 1856; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Jason Y. and Ruth A. (Lea) BOWEN; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Jesse and Sarah (Durham) BOWEN; maternal grandparents Archer and Lucinda (Henderson) LEA; educated in the common schools, […]
City: Unaka Springs DEADERICK, Arthur V., proprietor of summer resort; born Jonesboro, Tenn., August 2, 1833; German and Scotch descent; son of James W. and Adeline (McDowel) DEADERICK; father was a lawyer; paternal grandparents David and Margaret (Anderson) DEADERICK, maternal grandparents D.E. and Sarah (Shelby) McDOWEL; educated at Jonesboro, Tenn.; […]
City: Tusculum DOAK, Hubert P., physician and surgeon; born Tusculum, Tenn., Feb. 29, 1864; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Samuel S. and Julia M. (King) DOAK; father’s occupation, professor of mathematics G. & T. College; paternal grandparents S.S.M. and Eliza D. (Snapp) DOAK, maternal grandfather Jonathan KING; educated at Greeneville and […]
City: Turnersville DUNN, John William, physician, farmer, merchant; born Turnersville, Tenn., March 30, 1858; Scotch-Irish descent; son of John R. and Emma (Menees) DUNN; father, physician; paternal grandparents Johnnie J. and Rollie (Carter) DUNN, maternal grandparents Benjamin and Elizabeth (Harrison) MENEES; educated at Bowling Green, Ky., and Clarksville, Tenn.; graduated […]
City: Turnersville DARDEN, William Henry, merchant and farmer; English-Welsh descent; son of William Henry Harrison and Mary Louiza (Hughes) DARDEN; paternal grandparents Maj. James and Lucinda Baker (Carr) DARDEN, maternal grandparents, Col. Richard Ellis and Amanda Malvina (Oursler) HUGHES; educated in Robertson Co. public schools and at Burgen, Ky.; began […]
City: Tullahoma MEADOWS, Marcus DeWitt, doctor of dental surgery; born Irving College, Tenn., March 3, 1883; son of Jerome J. and Emma Irene (Etter) MEADOWS; father, farmer and merchant; educated at Burritt College, and Vanderbilt University, graduated from latter with D.D.S. degree, May 12, 1908; in early life worked on […]
EDWARD ALBRIGHT, lawyer and editor of the Sumner County News at Gallatin, represents two of the old and respected family connections of Sumner County, Tennessee, the Albrights and the Gutheries, both of which have been established here well toward a century and have given to Tennessee men and women of […]
Superintendent of public instruction in Sumner County. Thomas W. Hunter is an educator who upholds the highest standards of efficiency in the school service of the county. To gain his own education he went in debt, and he advanced to a place of influence in relation to the public welfare […]
CAPT. CHAS. SANDERS DOUGLASS, A.B., A.M. – Prominent among the educators of Tennessee is Capt. Chas. Sanders Douglass, who for twenty-five years has been superintendent of the city schools of Gallatin and in various other relations has been a prominent and influential factor in the educational affairs of this state for […]
City: Troy McDADE, George Roy, merchant; born Fulton, KY., June 24, 1881; Irish descent; son of James G. and Ida E. (Conner) McDADE; father’s occupation, farming; paternal grandparents John and Susan (Morris) McDADE; maternal grandparents George W. and Martha (Gordon) CONNER; educated in the public schools of Obion and Weakley […]
City: Troy INMANN, Thomas Redis, farmer, born McNairy Co., Tenn., July 22, 1839; Irish descent; son of Abraham and Melissa (Branch) INMAN; father’s occupation, farmer and blacksmith; educated in the local schools of Obion Co., Tenn.; enlisted in Co. “B,” 27th Tenn. Infantry, C.S.A., 1861, and served as Second Lieut. […]