City: LaFollette
EAST, Joseph Richard, carpenter, machinist; born Pittsylvania county, Va., March 2, 1845; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (West) EAST; father’s occupation farmer, and for 25 years he was an old Va. overseer; paternal grandparents, Joseph and Polly (Bell) EAST, maternal grandparents, Joseph and Catharine (McCaney) WEST; enlisted in the Confederate army in 1863 at age of 18 as a private in Capt. Wm. BROWN’s Company, and served until the close of the war; was wounded twice, first in the Battle of Fishers’ Hill in the Valley of Va., in 1864; second in 1865 on the retreat from Petersburg to Appomattox being the last soldier to be wounded in the brigade to which he belonged; in early life he was a carpenter; married Sallee PETREE July 25, 1873; member of F. & A. M.; was postmaster at Fincastle, Campbell county, Tenn., during President CLEVELAND’s second term; served two terms as member of the County Court of Campbell county, Tenn.; engaged in manufacture of lumber, being among the first to establish a steam mill in Campbell county, Tenn.; member of Baptist church, and has served as Sunday school superintendent and deacon in same 25 years.
