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, […]
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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. […]
City: Troy HAVENER, Joseph B., physician; born Jasper, Tenn., April 19, 1866; German descent; son of Martin B. and Caroline (McBee) HAVENER; father was a minister of the gospel; paternal grandfather, Obediah HAVENER, maternal grandfather, John McBEE; educated Ft. Smith, Dis. High School, Booneville, Ark. Graduated Vanderbilt University, MD., degree […]
City: Trezevant HUEDLE, W.J., miller, ginner, etc.; born North Carolina, Dec. 24, 1864; English and Irish descent; son of William and Pattie (DeShoug) HURDLE; father’s occupation, arming; educated in Carroll Co. Schools; early occupation, farmer, stock buyer; married Ardie E. McKINNEY, March 30, 1895; Democrat; member of Christian church; he […]
City: TREZEVANT HILLSMAN, James Rendick, farmer, born Henderson Co., Tenn., Jan. 18, 1850; Scotch and English descent; son of Jack Hird and Mary Amanda (Petty) HILLSMAN; paternal grandparents Reddick and Mary A. (Perry) HILLSMAN, maternal grandparents James and Nancy (Bates) PETTY; educated in common schools of Carroll Co., and Milan […]
Mrs. Sallie STOUT BOGLE, daughter of Allan and Sallie WRIGHT LINK STOUT, one of a family of eleven children, was born at Limestone, Tennessee. Her father’s home was the home of the Methodist itinerant and his famiy [sic]. It was in this way that she knew so well of our […]
Both prominent and efficient as an abstract attorney and as county surveyor, N. W. True enjoys a wide measure of popularity among the citizens of Springfield and of Robertson County in general. This young man is a lifelong resident of the county, his birth having occurred here on November 14, […]
The profession of law and the realm of politics are substantially represented in Dickson by Hon. Henry Clay Richardson, who is a native of this county and whose progenitors have for three preceding generations been associated with this part of Tennessee. They have constituted a family line notable for military […]
During a practice in medicine of more than a quarter of a century, most of which has been passed in Sumner County, Dr. Dunklin has utilized many opportunities for devoted public service, and at the same time has been held in the high esteem of his fellow citizens. His home […]
Mrs. Nancy Virginia TROY, daughter of Michael and Mahaley BLACK, was born in Ashe County, N.C., February 25, 1868. In her early life her parents migrated to Grayson County, Virginia, where she grew to maturity. Her youthful convictions led her to the altar of the Church where she came to […]
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 […]