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J. W. D. WILLIAMS
Was born at Madisonville, January 9, 1841. His father was William Williams. His mother was Sarah Steele of Madisonville. He was therefore a half brother to S. Y. B. Williams. He went to Sweetwater at the close of the Civil War, entered the produce business with William Calfee.
He married Florence Stowe, granddaughter of Thorn- ton C. Goddard. He moved to Knoxville afterwards and was in the railroad business. He died in Chatta- nooga December, 1910. Their living children are: Lil- lian (Mrs. Albert Welcker), St. Elmo; McChesney Wil- liams, Chattanooga ; James, also Chattanooga, and Ruby.
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THE YEARWOODS.
There are families some members of which from gen- eration to generation are leading and distinguished men renowned alike in war and peace; who tower above the great majority of their fellow citizens through long periods. Such were the Lees of Virginia, the Harrisons of Virginia, Illinois and Indiana, and the Adams of Massachusetts. There are certain individuals of fam- ilies that stand alone or who are distinguished far above any of the name, whose parentage gave no promise of renown and whose name in a measure died with them. Of such were Abraham Lincoln and Patrick Henry.
There are others called in England the great middle class. They are well educated, industrious, thrifty and hospitable. They are law abiding citizens, well enough to do to practise the amenities and courtesies of civil- ized life, brave and patriotic enough to answer to the call of their country when menaced by foes foreign or domestic. These have been the backbone and bulwarks of our states and nation. They may not furnish presi- dents and governors in times of peace, nor generals in war times, but in war they are the men behind the guns and in peace stand for law and order, morality and edu- cation. Such a family have been the Yearwoods. Some of them came here in colonial times. It is but natural that long residence and ancestral traditions should in- tensify a love for home and country. The native, other things being equal, is more patriotic and has a greater desire for the prosperity of his state than a late arrival from the fatherland whether it is Italy, Germany or Russia. Being educated here he better understands the genius of our government. The colonists mostly came from England, they of course spoke the English lan- guage and their customs and laws were taken therefrom. Therefore an English immigrant actuated by a love of freedom was almost one of us before he arrived here. For these reasons we feel it not inapt to speak of the ancestors of the Yearwoods that came to Sweetwater Valley.
Wm. Yearwood, whom we call the first, that is the first who settled in this country of the Yearwood family, came from England. The approximate date even is not
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known but likely somewhere from 1730 to 1740 and made his home in Charleston, S. C. He there reared a fam- ily. He lived to be 90 years of age. This was remark- able as at that time Charleston and the country round were very much subject to yellow and miasmatic fevers which often proved fatal.
He was an extremely expert fencing master and taught the youth of his city that art. To know how to use the sword was part of a liberal education. It was a day when an insult was wiped out with blood on the field of honor. To fight a duel was not contrary to law and many a one was fought with swords as weapons.
When the Revolutionary began Wm. Yearwood, the I, was likely of too advanced an age to stand hard- ships of a campaign, or from his profession he would have become a soldier. No mention is made of his en- listing.
However his son, Wm. Yearwood, whom for con- venience we will call the II, was a member of Captain Wm. Alexander's company and served under Gen- eral Wm. Sumpter during the Revolutionary War. He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Ramsours Mill Pond and Mrs. Ramsour cut the bullet out with her husband's razor. He was the ancestor of Wm. Year- wood who lived in Sweetwater Valley.
WM. YEARWOOD, III.
This Wm. Yearwood was born in Charleston, S. C., on January 8, 1780. He had three brothers and two sisters. He was educated and grew to manhood in Charleston. He volunteered in the war of 1812. He was in Captain Sublett's company in a regiment led by Colonel Wm. Henderson and served under General Jackson. He was in service all through the war and when it ended was honorably discharged. At the age of 25 he married at Charleston. His wife lived only a few years, dying in 1818. One son, Elijah, was born April 13, 1807. Not a great while after her death he married Martha Neely on January 24, 1809. She was born October 24, 1789. She was the daughter of John and Martha Dickson Neely. He (Neely) was 1st lieutenant under General Nathaniel Greene in the .
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Revolutionary War. He was wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs and was lamed for life. Wm. Year- wood soon after his second marriage moved to Bun- combe County, N. C., remaining there for a few years. From there he went to Dutch Bottoms on the French Broad River in Cocke County, Tenn. In 1814 he bought a farm in Rutherford County, Tenn., near Murfreesboro. He engaged in general farming and the raising of thoroughbred horses. In 1824 he sold out in Rutherford County and came to Sweetwater Valley, con- tracted or bought part of what has been known for a number of years as the Robt. Snead farm and moved his family there. About 1836 he bought the J. H. Pickel farm (now known as that) where he resided for several years. He sold again and purchased a farm in McMinn County, near Reagan's. He lived there until the time of his death which occurred August 5, 1865, at the age of 85 years and seven months. His wife Martha Neely Yearwood died on February 14, 1867, aged 78 years and 4 months. They were both buried in Netherland Cem- etery near Mount Harmony Church in McMinn County.
It is said that in the war of 1812 he belonged to Cap- tain Sublett's company in a regiment led by Colonel Wm. Henderson under command of General Jackson. If so he must have volunteered from either Buncombe County, N. C., or Cocke County, Tenn., because he was not in South Carolina, if the dates given heretofore are right and he did not return there. Wm. Yearwood was in the Seminole War, volunteering with his son, Thomas in 1835, in Captain Thomas Prigmore's company ; regimental officer Colonel McClelland, under General Newton Cannon. He was sociable, hospitable, fond of amusements, fiddling and dancing. He taught all of his children both girls and boys, who showed any talent that way, to play the fiddle.
Changing an old rhyme somewhat it might be said of him:
He shot the musket, he swung the sword Fiddler and fighter through, Champion of lady, hater of lord Dancer and farmer too,
Being quite versatile in his accomplishments.
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Wm. Yearwood, III, and Martha Neeley Yearwood, second wife, had seven children: four sons and three daughters.
Child of first wife was Elijah Yearwood, born April 13, 1807, Charleston, S. C. He married one Prudence Morrow and went to Arkansas.
Children of second wife:
Thomas Yearwood, born April 2, 1810, in Buncombe County, N. C .; Nancy Neeley Yearwood, July 24, 1814, in Rutherford County, Tenn .; William Yearwood, born December 24, 1816, in Rutherford County, Tenn .; Ho- race Burton Yearwood, born March 3, 1820, in Ruther- ford County, Tenn .; Sarah Dickson Yearwood, born May 26, 1823, in Rutherford County, Tem .; James Morrow Yearwood, born February 5, 1825, died January 12, 1863, in Monroe County, Tenn .; Martha Jane Yearwood, born July 24, 1829, in Monroe County, Tenn.
COLONEL HORACE BURTON YEARWOOD
Was born at Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tenn., March 13, 1820. He died at his residence near County Line two and one-half miles southwest of Sweetwater, on June 17, 1897. He was buried in old Sweetwater cemetery. He married Elizabeth Esther Scruggs, daughter of Elder John Scruggs, September 30, 1847, Robert Snead, M. G., officiating. She died October 25, 1905. He was a member of Co. "H" (Captain Jno. D. Lowry) 2nd Reg. Tenn. Vol. Inf. in the Mexican War, joining in 1845. He was colonel in the state militia.
At the beginning of the Civil War he was quarter- master with the rank of colonel in C. S. A. under Gen- eral Beauregard and stationed at Augusta, Ga. He was a charter member of Sweetwater Lodge, No. 292, F. & A. M. He was a member of the Baptist church at County Line. He was president of the Fair Associa- tion which held its meetings at Madisonville for a num- ber of years. He was the president and moving spirit in the Sweetwater Fair Association, whose grounds and track were one mile west of Sweetwater. Being an au- thority on all kinds of stock, especially horses, he was in great demand at all the fairs in East Tennessee, and
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also for the reasons that he was fair and impartial in his decisions. He wrote frequently for the Sweetwater papers a series of articles which he called "Horse Talk." He was a farmer. He with his brother Wil- liam, purchased school land in 1845. H. B. obtained the grant from the state No. 4836 of date April 19, 1855, signed by Governor Andrew Johnson. At different times he bought small parcels to add to it from F. A. Patton, J. J. Browder and S. J. Rowan. He was the first man on this line of road to place windows in his barn, saying that horses needed light as well as food and other attentions. Some who laughed at him after- ward followed his example.
He was genial, jovial and popular and was always a welcome visitor to the town. He was tall and of impos- ing presence and showed to a great advantage on horse- back, being a natural born horseman. He was therefore solicited and led many processions both masonic and political and was always equal to the occasion.
The information contained in these sketches not per- sonally known to the writer was obtained from Miss Miranda E. and Daniel Bone Yearwood, to whom ac- knowledgment is hereby made.
His children were:
1. William Cerro Gordo, b. July 12, 1848. Unmarried and lives at Sweetwater.
2. John Scruggs, b. January 12, 1850; d. August 1, 1903, at Riceville, Tenn.
3. Richard J., b. August 8, 1853.
4. Lavinia Ida, b. June 12, 1856; d. December 10, 1890.
5. Horace Burton, b. January 12, 1860. Railway con- ductor in Mexico for fifteen years. Now lives at San Antonio, Texas.
6. Daniel Boone, b. March 3, 1862. Farmer living at Riceville, Tenn.
7. James Bennie, b. October 2, 1863. Was drowned June 9, 1873.
8. Francis Carter, b. October 27, 1864. Telegrapher in the employ of railroad company for twenty-nine years (1916). Lives at Sweetwater, Tenn.
9. Charlie, b. December 27, 1867; d. January, 1868.
10. Hugh, b. December 19, 1868; d. August 21, 1889.
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John Scruggs Yearwood was first a railroad employee and then editor of the Monroe Democrat and was post- master at Sweetwater under Cleveland's first adminis- tration. He was married to Mary Belle Fitzgerald, daughter of the Rev. J. B. Fitzgerald, at Fullen's Sta- tion (now Chucky City, Tenn.), December 27, 1876. Their children are:
Pearl, b. December 30, 1877; d. January 1, 1878.
Ida Zoe, b. at Euchee, Tenn., April 7, 1879. Lives with Boone Yearwood.
Sadie Ethel, b. at Euchee, Tenn., March 15, 1881; d. February 4, 1889.
James Horace, h. at Sweetwater, June 3, 1885. Lives at Knoxville, Tenn.
Ella Hortense, b. Sweetwater, June 2, 1885. Lives at Knoxville.
Mack Fitzgerald, b. Sweetwater, May 26, 1887. Re- sides in Knoxville.
Hugh Gaines, b. Oaksdale, Wash. Lives at Knoxville.
Mrs. J. S. Yearwood was born at Waynesville, N. C., August 8, 1853. She died at Sweetwater, January 4, 1904.
Richard Jarnagin Yearwood married Jennie Walker, January 10, 1883. (See D. H. Cleveland.)
Francis Carter Yearwood married Mattie Moulton, February 10, 1891. She was born November 7, 1867, in Meigs County, the daughter of Jno. P. Moulton, who was a soldier in the Confederate army. Her mother's name was Brady. Their children were: Esther, d. in infancy; Francis C., Jr., b. November 1, 1896. Student at Carson and Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn.
WM. YEARWOOD, IV (Mexican War Veteran).
In 1845 he and his brother H. B., purchased a farm near County Line in Monroe County. Soon after when the call for volunteers for the Mexican War came, he with his brothers, Thomas and H. B., enlisted in Co. H 2nd Reg. Tenn. Vol. Inf. The officers of the com- pany were: John D. Lowry, captain; Wm. Yearwood, 1st lieutenant; John Willson, second lieutenant; and James Forrest, third lieutenant. They were ordered to assemble at Memphis, Tenn., and there in June, 1846,
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they were sworn into service. The officers of the Sec- ond Regiment were: J. E. Thomas, colonel; R. D. Al- lison, lieutentant-colonel; Richard Waterhouse, major. From Memphis they took steamers to New Orleans, La., and embarked in ships and arrived on the Brazos River early in July, 1846. He participated in the capture of Monterey, Mex., in the following August. After the cap- itulation of Monterey there followed a four months' armistice. The second regiment was placed under the command of General Scott. They marched to Tampico and from there sailed for Vera Cruz, where they landed in December. The siege guns opened fire on the city which continued for several days. To the second regi- ment was assigned the task of assaulting the barricade which defended the Maderine Bridge. It was taken. After a siege of seven days the city surrendered, the castle of San Juan Ulloa on the 29th of December. After the conquest of Vera Cruz General Scott soon began his - triumphant march to the city of Mexico. At the assault of Cerro Gordo on April 18, 1847, the second regiment was left on the line. The assault was very vigorous. The second regiment became entangled in the chapparal in front of the Mexican fortifications and suffered ter- ribly-their loss being seventy-one. Here while in com- mand of his company Lieutenant Wm. Yearwood fell mortally wounded in the shoulder and side. He lived for six days, dying on April 24. After the expiration of his term of enlistment his brother, Thomas Yearwood, brought his body home to McMinn County and the re- mains were interred in the cemetery at Athens.
THOMAS YEARWOOD
Was born in Buncombe County, N. C., April 2, 1810. Died May 24, 1889, at his farm two and one-half miles southeast of Sweetwater, buried in old Sweetwater Cemetery. He lived with his father, Wm. Yearwood, until the Seminole War. He volunteered with his father in that war. He was in the 1st Tenn. Reg. under Colonel McClelland.
He volunteered again in the Mexican War, in 1846, joining with his brothers, Wm. and H. B. Yearwood, Co. H 2nd Tenn. Reg. Vol. Inf. They rendezvoused in
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Knoxville. Went from Knoxville' to Memphis on the steamboats "Knoxville" and "Harry Hill." Then they went to New Orleans from Memphis. At New Orleans they embarked on the ships Sevia, Virginia and Endora for the Brazos River. He was at the capture of Mon- terey, Mexico., in August. The climate and water were unhealthful and many got sick and died, even more than were killed by the bullets of the Mexicans. Thomas Yearwood, though suffering and weakened from dysen- tery, refused sick leave and was with General Scott and participated in all the engagements of the company. He returned after his period of enlistment expired bringing home the body of his brother, William, who was killed at Cerro Gordo. On September 8, 1835, he was married to Lavenia Walker Scruggs, daughter of Rev. John Scruggs, on Chestua.
In 1854 he purchased the farm two and one-half miles southeast of Sweetwater now owned by his sons, T. A. and R. S. Yearwood, where he resided at the time of his death, May 24, 1889. His wife was born February 3, 1832, and died August 4, 1899. They are both buried in old Sweetwater Cemetery.
Thomas Yearwood was an honest, fearless, outspoken man. He hated all shams and hypocrisy. He was an ardent whig and was a Union man during the war and not afraid to aver it even during Confederate occupa- tion. He said he could not stultify himself by holding against the flag under which he had fought through two wars. Besides being a farmer he was a contractor and builder. He is said to have built one of the first if not the first house in the town. It was the house used as his office and shop by Dr. M. C. Parker. It stood near where the Hyatt Hotel now stands. It is now part of the old building standing on the west side of the hotel lot. There is some conflict of opinion as to the first house built in the town, as several were commenced nearly at the same time, when it was found where the depot was to be located. I am inclined to the one ex- pressed above.
Thomas Yearwood was a slave owner and a successful farmer and a good neighbor. He was always considered impulsive and eccentric. He possessed little of what is known as "policy." He did not hesitate to speak
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his mind on any and all occasions, and did not mince matters. He never pretended to be what he was not. No one ever accused him of being a hypocrite. Is it not better to err on the side of too plain speaking than to lack boldness to tell the truth ?
The children of Thomas and Lavinia Yearwood were: 1. James Forrest, b. June 16, 1854; m. Harriette Flor- ence, daughter of H. H. Morris of McMinn County, Sep- tember 11, 1879. He died at Butler, Bates County, Mo., January 12, 1887, and was buried there, as also were his son Paul and daughter Inez, both of whom died at early age. His widow resides at Knoxville, Tenn.
2. Martha Theresa, b. July 11, 1857. She married John Scott Young of Monroe County, on December 17, 1876. He was a druggist in Sweetwater. She lives in Sweetwater. Their children were: Clarence E. (See W. T. Lenoir.) Earl, b. August 9, 1880.
3. John Francis, b. October 30, 1859. Married Ella Coffee, daughter of Colonel Coffee of Georgetown, Feb- ruary 4, 1892.
4. William Frederick, b. March 27, 1862. Lives at Sweetwater.
5. Thomas Abijah, b. August 2, 1865. Farmer.
6. Miranda Elizabeth, b. January 26, 1868.
7. Robert Snead, b. December 23, 1870. Farmer.
8. Lora May, b. June 30, 1875; d. at Sweetwater, June 4, 1900.
The other children of Wm. Yearwood, III, and Nancy Neeley Yearwood were :
Nancy Neeley Yearwood (second) married Robert L. Johnson, June 12, 1838.
Sarah D. Yearwood married Frank A. Holt, October 26, 1845.
James M. Yearwood married twice, first to Susan Low- ry, November 20, 1853, and second to Carnelia Nether- land, to whom one son was born. He lived near Cleve- land, Tenn.
Martha Jane Yearwood married S. B. Haines. Two children: Sam Y. and
HENRY BRADLEY
Was born on Ball Play Creek, Monroe County, Feb- ruary 8, 1827. He, while a young man, was in the em-
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ploy of C. M. McGhee, who owned what was afterward the Calloway farm on Little Tennessee River. He mar- ried Margaret Williams on January 26, 1859. (C. M. McGhee, J. P.) She was born March 29, 1834. He was a farmer. He came to Sweetwater in 1865. He first lived on the lot afterward the electric light property; then on lot No. 58 back of the C. P. church. After that he bought fifty acres of land from W. B. Lenoir and moved to the I. T. Lenoir residence. He died there on March 14, 1897. His wife died June 6, 1909. Their children were: 1. Nannie, d. in infancy; 2. Matt, b. Oc- tober 11, 1862, d. July 29, 1900; 3. Andrew R., d. June 17, 1908; 4. D. S .; 5. Sarah, September 29, 1872; 6. Luke; 7. John.
3. Andrew, married Amanda Jane Heabler, January 11, 1892. She was born December 13, 1867. Their chil- dren were: (1) Henry, electrician in the navy; (2) Lo- rena Margaret, b. August 31, 1894. She is a trained nurse in Atlanta; (3) Carrie, b. December 14, 1896, is a graduate of Clinton, S. C. High School; (5) Frank Russell, b. February 14, 1906, died in infancy; (4) Hugh Carleton, b. August 25, 1904.
4. D. S. married Myrtle Kratzer, June 19, 1909. He is a farmer. Their children are Robert, William and Sa- rah Rose.
5. Sarah, married W. T. McGuire, of Jellico, Tenn., June 16, 1893. He d. March, 1904.
6. Luke, married Rose Ewry, of Lafayette, Ind. They live in Houston, Texas. Their children are Elizabeth, Walter and Jane.
7. John, b. June 12, 1873; married Beulah Sue, daugh- ter of Gideon B. and Elizabeth Johnson, on December 16, 1903. He is a member of the firm of Guthrie, Brad- ley and Jones, Sweetwater, Tenn. He is a Democrat, a Mason and a Presbyterian. They have one child, Mar- garet Elizabeth.
MATT CARTER
Was born in Greenville, S. C. on December 15, 1829. He came to Jonesboro, Tenn., when a young man and there married Mary Emma Brown (Rev. David Sul- lins, M. G.). She was a school teacher and the daughter
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of Captain Enoch Brown of Jonesboro. (Bishop E. E. Hoss of the M. E. Church, South, attended the first school she taught.) They moved to Cleveland, Tenn., in 1857. He there joined the M. E. Church, South, in 1859. They moved to Sweetwater in the spring of 1865. He was first a manufacturer of tinware and was, for years before his death, a produce merchant. He was made a Master Mason in Sweetwater Lodge No. 292, on April 17, 1867.
In old Sweetwater cemetery are monuments bearing these inscriptions : "In memory of my dear husband, Matt Carter, born in Greenville, S. C., December 15, 1829. Died April 28, 1885. 'The Noblest Work of God, an Honest Man.'
In memory of our dear mother, Mary Brown Carter, born at Jonesboro, Tenn., October 17, 1831. Died May 29, 1906. 'Life is Richer, Heaven is Sweeter Because of Mother."
The children of Matt and Mary Brown Carter were: 1. Edgar V., b. He graduated at Emory and Henry College, Va., where he obtained the orator's medal. After graduation there he studied law. He mar- ried Kate, the daughter of A. C. Robeson, of Athens, Tenn. He went to Atlanta, Ga., where he began the practice of law as a member of the firm of Mynatt and Howell. He is now of the firm of E. V. Carter and sons, who are one of the leading ones of the city. Of- fice in the Atlanta National Bank Building. Residence, 141 Lee Street, West End. The children of E. V. and Kate Carter are: Robeson, b. ; E. V. Jr., b.
; Frank, b. ; Katherine May, b.
2. Robert LaFayette, married Viola Cleveland. (See Clevelands.)
3. Andrew P., married (first) Pauline Gray, of At- lanta, Ga. One child, A. P. Jr. He married (second) Eva Wintersmith, of Louisville, Ky. One child, Rich- ard.
4. Walter Bland, married Pearl Linch, of Atlanta, Ga. Their children are: Afton W., Walter and Pearl Corrie.
5. Fred. A., b. October 14, 1870. He was educated at Sweetwater College. He married (first) Josephine King, daughter of A. S. and Laura J. King, of Atlanta,
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Ga., on November 14, 1895. She died May 27, 1903. Their children are:
Josephine, b. at Atlanta, June 16, 1897. Student at Martha Washington College, Va .; Mary Craig, b. April 3, 1899.
F. A. Carter was in the employ of the Sweetwater Woolen Mills as bookkeeper and then as secretary and treasurer. He is now president of the American Tex- tile Woolen Company. He married (second) Belle, daughter of the late John M. Jones, on June 14, 1905. She is president of the City Beautiful League and choir leader of the Methodist Church, South, and Mr. Carter is superintendant of the Sunday-school, the largest and most progressive in Sweetwater with an average at- tendance of about 375 for the year 1916. The church is now building a Sunday-school annex.
6. May, the youngest child of Matt and Mary Carter, was born June 30, 1872. Was educated at Centenary College, Cleveland, Tenn., and Price's College, Nash- ville, Tenn. She married Frank Y. Jackson. He joined the Holston Conference, M. E. C., South, in 1890. He is a noted revivalist. He is now (1916) in charge of Marion, Va. church. The children of Mary and Frank Y. Jackson are: Mary, Frank Y., Margaret and Mans- field.
MARY ISABELLA MAGILL MONTGOMERY.
The following sketch is taken by permission of R. E. Magill, of Richmond, Va., from the "Magill Family Record" book:
Mary Isabella Magill (daughter of Nathaniel and Jane Rankin Magill), born April 20, 1829; died March 10, 1906, at the home of her sister, Penelope, Mrs. J. R. Russell; buried at Madisonville. Married to James Harvey Montgomery, at the home of her father, Octo- ber 19, 1849. (J. H. Montgomery, born February 7, 1825. Died at their home, in Sweetwater, Tenn., May 26, 1888; buried on Fork Creek.)
The subject of this sketch was a woman loved by everybody who knew her; of a bright, sunny, cheerful, self-sacrificing, loving disposition; she scattered sun- shine wherever she went. Ever ready to lend a helping
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hand. "None knew her but to love her." Their first home was in Fork Creek Valley, near Glenloch, Tenn. Her husband was a tanner. Selling out his business, after a number of years, they moved to Sweetwater. In 1866 they went to California and lived about eight years at San Jose, and followed the dairy business. Re- turning to Sweetwater they kept a private boarding house and also a meat market. After the death of her husband, she went to live at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. R. Russell, near Madisonville. Always ready to go to the bedside of the sick with her help and cheering words, everybody was always and everywhere glad to welcome "Aunt Mary." Her very presence was a bless- ing, and her exalted Christian character will always be remembered as a high ideal by all who were privileged to know her."
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