City: Memphis PALMER, J. W., Jurist; born Fayette County, May, 1860; son David and Anna E. (TUCKER) PALMER; educated private tutor and at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va.; married Letitia Kerr JONES 1898; Judge Second Criminal Court, Shelby County; practiced law in Lauderdale County until 1895; practiced law in Shelby County […]
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City: Memphis MOSS, John T., physician and surgeon; born Union City, Tenn., Nov. 4, 1879; Scotch-English descent; son of William G. and Amanda M. (ROSS) MOSS; father’s occupation planter, furniture mfgr. and pharmacist; paternal grandparents W. H. and Sallie (GIDDINS) MOSS; educated Union City Training School, graduated from Jefferson Medical […]
Mrs. PIERCE is a daughter of Judge Isaac HUNTER, of New Madrid, Mo., and is related to the earliest pioneer families of Kentucky and Missouri. Her great-great-grandfather, Capt. Joseph HUNTER, who served in the Revolutionary War, came down the Ohio River with Gen. George CLARK and settled on Corn Island, opposite the present site of […]
City: Murfreesboro PALMER, Horace Edward, lawyer-jurist; born Murfreesboro, Tenn., September 26, 1855; son of General Joseph B. and Ophelia M. (Burrus) PALMER; paternal grand parents, William M. and Mildred (Johns) PALMER, maternal grandparents LaFayette and Eliza (Ready) BURNS; father’s occupation, lawyer; educated Union University, Murfreesboro, Tenn., and University of Virginia; […]
City: Memphis MOSS, John T., physician and surgeon; born Union City, Tenn., Nov. 4, 1879; Scotch-English descent; son of William G. and Amanda M. (Ross) MOSS; father’s occupation, planter, furniture mfgr. and pharmacist; paternal grandparents W.H. and Sallie (Giddins) MOSS; educated Union City Training School, graduated from Jefferson Medical College, […]
City: Columbia CAPERS, Walter Branham, educator, clergyman; born Greensville, S. C. Aug. 8, 1870; French Huguenot, English and Irish descent; son of Ellison and Charlotte (Palmer) CAPERS; father’s occupation, bishop of the diocese of South Carolina, also Brigadier-General in Confederate Army and Professor S. C. Military Academy; educated preparatory schools […]
Town: Charleston PALMER, Joseph Campbell, Businessman, owner and operator of pork packing establishment at Charleston, Tenn.; born McPherson, Tenn., Dec. 17, 1867; English descent; son of William Pinkney and Alzira (Witt) PALMER; father’s occupation, farmer; married Sarah Louise MAGILL Jan. 15, 1899; member of Masonic Lodge at Charleston, Tenn., began […]