City: Selmer
WHITEHURST, Theodore Benton, lawyer and public official; born McNairy Co., Tenn., Feb. 28, 1867; English and Irish descent; son of Alfred Franklin and Ann Elizabeth (Nethery) WHITEHURST; father, school teacher; paternal grandparents Ben and Martha (Wilkerson) WHITEHURST, maternal grandparents James and Lucy (Cooper) NETHERY; educated in common and high schools of Wayne and McNairy Cos., Tenn. and under the tutelage of his father; reared principally on a farm in McNairy Co., Tenn., where he remained until 1891, engaged in farming and teaching school, then he went to Pocahontas, Tenn., and became bookkeeper and salesman in a general merchandise store, and read law at nights; in Jan. 1905, he returned to McNairy Co., and devoted time to study of law, in June, 1905, he removed to Selmer, Tenn., and was admitted to the bar, where he has since continued in the practice of law; married Laura BLANKENSHIP, Nov. 7, 1900; without solicitation in August, 1908, he was elected Judge of the Co. Court of McNairy Co., and re-elected August, 1910, for a full term of eight years; interested in loans and investments, also owns a river bottom farm.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
