Death came to Mrs. Sarah Anne Reneau CLENDENNEN April 17, 1940 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert OGLE, Knoxville, Tennessee. She was the wife of the late Rev. George W. CLENDENNEN who for many years was a beloved and honored minister in the Methodist Church, having been admitted […]
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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: Sevierville RULE, Caleb, farmer; born Knox Co., Tenn., July 2, 1840; German descent; son of John and Nancy (Hood) RULE; father, farmer; received common school education; entered the ministry of the Baptist church in 1872 with a limited education, and has served as pastor of 12 churches; married Eliza […]
City: Nashville MOSES, Frank Armstrong, Special Examiner Tennessee Pension Board; born Knoxville, Tenn., June 19, 1845; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James C. and Susan W. (Parks) MOSES; paternal grandparents John F. and Mary (Pearson) MOSES, maternal grandparents William and Jane (Armstrong) PARK; educated University of Knoxville; engaged in hardware business […]
Mrs. LURTON was the daughter of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush OWEN and Mrs. Katherine Kennedy Howard OWEN, both of Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn. Dr. OWEN was a learned and distinguished physician, who fell an early victim to his devotion to his professions, dying in early manhood from an attack of cholera, with which he […]
Fifty-three years is a long term of service; yet Charles W. KELLEY at the time of this death, on November 1, 1939, had received his fifty-fourth appointment as minister in the Holston Conference. He was vigorously active until the end of his life. I do not know of any man […]
City: Morristown CARROLL, Charles Thomas, minister of the Gospel; born in Cabell Co., West Va., Feb. 27, 1842; son of Samuel and Lucinda (Swan) CARROLL; father’s occupation, farmer and teacher; paternal grandparents James Tillman and Sarah (Black) CARROLL, maternal grandfather Thomas SWAN; educated in High School of Cabell, West Va.; […]
City: Memphis LEROY, Louis, physician; born Chelsea, Mass., September 15, 1874; son of Charles L.A. and Lizzie F. (Somerby) LEROY; French descent; educated public high school, Newark, N.J., University of New York, University of Nashville; graduated medicine in Medico Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; City Bacteriologist in Nashville 1900; State Bacteriologist […]
City: Maryville PARHAM, William Edmund, manufacturer; born Knoxville, Tenn., March 9, 1860; son of William Thomas and Mary Jane Susan (SNODDY) PARHAM; paternal grandfather Edwin Nelson PARHAM, paternal grandmother Mary Ellen (DUNN) PARHAM, maternal grandfather Rev. Robert Henderson SNODDY, maternal grandmother Nancy Hawkins (MOORE) SNODDY; English, Scotch-Irish descent; educated Maryville […]
City: Knoxville KENNERLY, Wesley Travis, lawyer; born Henry Co., Tenn., Aug. 29, 1877; Irish descent; son of C. M. and Sarah A. (Travis) KENNERLY; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, John W. and Martha (Ross) KENNERLY, maternal grandparents, Dr. Jos. H. and Eliza (Crump) TRAVIS; educated in the common schools of […]
City: Memphis HEISKELL, Lucius Lamar, public official; born in Shelby Co., Tenn., Feb. 4, 1883; son of F.H. and Augusta (Lamar) HEISKELL; father’s occupation, chancellor; paternal grandfather Joseph B. HEISKELL, maternal grandfather L.Q.C. LAMAR; educated in public schools, Memphis University School and University of Tenn., graduating from latter, B.S., 1904, […]
City: Memphis HEISKELL, Carrick White, lawyer; born in Knox Co. Tenn., July 25, 1836; son of Frederick S. and Eliza (Brown) HEISKELL; father’s occupation, newspaper editor and publisher, then farmer; paternal grandfather Frederick HEISKELL, maternal grandmother was a Miss STIDLINGER prior to her marriage; maternal grandparents Joseph and Mary (Harbison) […]
City: Knoxville AYRES, Brown, educator; born Memphis Tenn, May 25, 1856; Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of Samuel Warren and Elizabeth Little (Cook) AYRES; father’s occupation lawyer; paternal grandparents, Isaac and Mary Furman (Smith) AYRES, maternal grandparents, William Arthur and Catherine Stewart (Brown) COOK; educated Washington & Lee University, Stevens […]
City: Knoxville AUSTIN, Richard Wilson, attorney at law, member of Congress from 2d Congressional District of Tenn.; born Decatur, Ala. Aug. 26, 1857; Scotch-Irish descent; son of John Hall and Mary E. (Parker) AUSTIN; paternal grandfather, Samuel AUSTIN; maternal grandfather, Edwin PARKER; educated University of Tenn., and Loudon (Tenn) High […]
City: Knoxville ATCHLEY, William Abner, minister of the gospel; born Sevierville, Tenn., April 20, 1860; English descent; son of Thomas and Lydia L. (Atchley) ATCHLEY; father’s occupation, brickmason; paternal grandparents, Noah and Nancy (Farris) ATCHLEY, maternal grandparents, Isaac and Nancy (Bowers) ATCHLEY; educated Carson and Newman College, and Newton Theological […]
City: Knoxville ASHMORE, William Monroe, Public Official; born Jefferson City, Tenn., Aug. 19, 1851; son of Robert Henderson and Mary Elizabeth (Weldon) ASHMORE, Scotch-Irish descent; educated Carson & Newman College; married Mary Virginia HOMER Nov. 30, 1883; member Masons (Oriental, No. _, of Knoxville), K. of P. and I. O. […]
City: Knoxville ANDERSON, David Deaderick, lawyer; born Washington Co., Tenn., Dec. 9, 1840; son of Alexander and Eliza Rosa (Deaderick) ANDERSON; German and English descent; his father was Supreme Court Judge of California, and in 1840 United States Senator; educated University of Tenn. and graduate of same A. B. degree […]
City: Memphis DAVANT, Arthur R., commercial agent Southern Railway Co.; born in Gillisonville, Beaufort district (now Hampton county), S. C., July 1867; received education under private tutors until fourteen years of age, then went to Montgomery, Ala., and attended school until twenty years of age, when he went to Knoxville, […]
City: Loudon GREER, James A., lawyer, born Knox Co., Tenn., Jan. 16, 1846; son of John and Annis GREER; Scotch-Irish and English descent; father’s occupation farmer; educated State University Bloomington, Ind., and Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.; early business farmer, County Court Clerk of Blount Co., from 1872-1880; chief Deputy Collector […]
City: Loudon CARMICHAEL, Nicholas Barksdale, farmer and stock dealer; born near Loudon, Tenn., April 8, 1865; Scotch descent; son of James H. and Mary (Barksdale) CARMICHAEL; father’s occupation, farmer and stock dealer; paternal grandparents John and Margaret (Gardenhier) CARMICHAEL, maternal grandfather Nicholas BARKSDALE, maternal grandmother was a Miss ANDERSON prior […]