olks Families 201~300
These names are not in Alphabetical order. We add them as we find them.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
201 JOSEPH B. WILLIAMS
Joseph Williams was born August 25, 1841 in Montgomery County, the son of Joseph B. and Adaline T. Bridge Williams, and is of Welsh descent. Joseph Sr. was born in this county in 1808 and died in 1885. He and Adaline had seven children. Joseph Sr. was the son of Septimus Williams of Virginia. He came to Tennessee in 1795, the first of the family to settle in this State; he died in 1844.
Joseph attended county schools, and in 1861 joined the Fourteenth Tennessee Infantry. he was in the principal battles with his regiment.
He returned home and became a farmer. In 1870 he married M.J. Davis, born in 1841 in Montgomery County. They had two children: Neva and Jessie R.
Joseph's farm was about seven miles from Clarksville. He was magistrate in his district and was well-to-do financially.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
202 THOMAS W. WILLIAMS
Thomas Williams was born June 10, 1842 in Montgomery County, the son of William and Julia A. Rochell Williams. William was born in Mississippi in 1812, and Julia was born in Tennessee in 1813.
Thomas married Lucretia Jaiman, born December 19, 1849 in Tennessee, the daughter of Josiah and Nancy Jaiman. Josiah was born in North Carolina in 1813 and Nancy in Kentucky in 1817.
Thomas and Lucretia had nine children: James P., Agnes C., Julia, Dora C., William E., Thomas D., Bulia M. and Emery W.
In 1861 Thomas joined Company B, Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment, and was in all the battles fought in Virginia and never was wounded. He surrendered with Lee in 1865.
He returned home and was in farming and merchandising.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
203 HENRY B. WILLSON
Henry Willson was born February 4, 1852 in Pulaski County, Kentucky, the son of James M. and Elizabeth M. Porch Willson. James was born in 1828 and Elizabeth in 1819, both in Kentucky. James was the son of William Willson of North Carolina.
Henry attended school in Somerset, Kentucky and A. & M. College of the University of Kentucky at Lexington for four years. He then took a course of lectures in the Kentucky School of Medicine and the Louisville Medical College.
In 1876 he went to Philadelphia and was in the boot and shoe business. In late 1876 he moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky and was in the boot and shoe business for Stribley & Co. until 1879. He then came to Clarksville and formed a partnership with James M. Bowling in a boots, shoes and gents' furnishing goods store. They were one of the leading businesses and one of the leading shoe houses in this part of Tennessee.
On February 21, 1882 he married Susie Dorch, born in 1859 in Clarksville, the daughter of G.C. and Eliza Dorch. They had two children: Henry J. and Eliza M.
Henry was a Mason and Knight Templar, an Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
204 ROBERT A. WILSON
Robert Wilson was born May 9, 1836 in Pennsylvania, the son of John and Mary T. Jones Flemming Wilson. John was born in 1805 in Tennessee and died on February 16, 1880; Mary was born in North Carolina in 1801. They were married in 1830 and had four children.
Robert was raised on a farm and attended country schools. In 1855 he began clerking in New Providence for three years. Then he and his brother became partners in a general store until the war broke out.
In 1860 Robert married A.E. Barbee, born 1843 in Tennessee, the daughter of Solomon G. and Nancy Trice Barbee. Solomon was from North Carolina and Nancy was from Kentucky.
Robert and A.E. had six children: Annie M., Nannie G., John H., Susie, Myra and Emma.
In 1861 Robert joined Company A, Forty-ninth Tennessee Regiment, and was elected second-lieutenant. He was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson but exchanged after four months. The company reorganized at Vicksburg and Robert was made first lieutenant. He was in several battles in Mississippi. He was in Atlanta and in Hood's retreat from Tennessee. At Selma, Alabama he was captured but escaped and came home.
In 1866 he was elected constable and appointed deputy sheriff. When making an arrest Robert had his right eye seriously injured.
He began merchandising in New Providence for two years, then sold out and began farming. He bought a farm in 1880.
Robert was a Mason.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
205 SAMUEL E. WILSON
Samuel Wilson was born August 19, 1860 in Fredonia, Montgomery County, the son of Samuel and Eliza W. Hunt Wilson, and was of Scottish-Irish descent. Samuel Sr. was born in 1813 and died in 1871. He married Eliza in 1843. She was born in 1821 in North Carolina, the daughter of John Hunt. They had two children: Mary E. S. and Samuel E.
Samuel attended county schools and Stewart College in Clarksville. He owned 3,500 acres on the Cumberland River and 300 acres in Fredonia. From 1877 to 1883 he lived in Clarksville but always attended to his farm.
On March 7, 1883 he married Flora De Graffenreid, born October 26, 1861 in Williams County, the daughter of Mathew De Graffenreid of Virginia, and of German-French descent. He died in Tennessee in 1868.
Samuel and Flora had one child, Eliza, born December 3, 1883. He was quite wealthy.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
206 ALEXANDER S. WOOD
Alexander Wood was born December 24, 1830 near Franklin, Tennessee, the son of John and Mildred Standfield Wood. John was born in Maryland and came to Tennessee in 1837 and lived near Franklin for four years. Later he lived in Kentucky and in 1838 he died in Hopkinsville. After his death Mildred and her seven children moved back to Montgomery County where she was born. She died in 1839.
Alexander attended country schools . In 1848 he began merchandising at Woodlawn and in 1860 was in the tobacco business. In 1879 he started a grocery business in partnership with Florence F. Abbott.
He married three times: in 1857 to Jennie Frederick who died in 1863; in 1866 to Bettie J. Brown who died in 1871; in 1873 to Edna B. Brown. Bettie's sister.
Alexander was a member of the Masons and K. of H.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
207 JONATHAN FRANKLIN WOOD
Jonathan Wood was born September 11, 1851 in Meigs County, the son of J. and L.E. Brittain Wood, and was of Irish descent. J. was born in 1802 and died in Clarksville in 1877. L.E. was born in 1817.
Jonathan was raised on a farm, and in 1868 the family moved to Chattanooga, where he attended school. He clerked in the hardware store of Wood & Coulter until January, 1872 when he came to Clarksville and bought interest in Kincannon, Wood & Co.
In 1875 he married Bettie M. McReynolds of Clarksville. They had two children: Clara M. and Annie L.
He inherited his father's share and was an equal partner until 1882. He opened his own store selling Hardware, glass, queensware, tin and wood stoves. He had a very substantial business.
Jonathan was a member of the Masons, I.O.O.F., K.T. and K. of P.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
208 J.N. WOODSON
J.N. Woodson October 15, 1843 in Virginia, the son of Jacob C. and Susan Woodard Woodson, and was of English descent. They had ten children. The family came to Montgomery County in 1847 and stayed until 1874, when they moved to Kentucky. Susan died in Tennessee in 1854.
J.N. attended county school and farmed with his father. He married Sarah J. Smith, the daughter of James and Mary Smith. They had six children: George T., William N., Allen B., James A., Margaret J. and Josie E.
J.N. bought a farm and raised tobacco. In 1861 he joined the Fourteenth Regiment Infantry. He was in all the battles with his regiment Cedar Run, Seven Pines, Petersburg, Richmond and Manassas. He was discharged in 1862 for being underage. He was captured at his home and was held prisoner in Nashville, Louisville, Baltimore, Fort Monroe, and Petersburg where he was exchanged in 1863 and returned home.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
209 FRANCIS M. YARBROUGH
Francis Yarbrough was born November 5, 1832 in Montgomery County, the son of John and Mary Vaughn Yarbrough, and was of English descent. John was from Virginia and died 1856, Mary was from Tennessee and died in 1857.
Francis attended county schools and learned blacksmithing and wagon-making.
On May 1, 1856 Francis married C. Davis, born February 13, 1838 in Tennessee, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Martin Davis, both of Montgomery County. They had eight children: David L., Josiah, John R., William H., Bailey, Louisa, Milton M. and Ada. Bailey died in 1869 and Josiah died in 1882.
Francis worked at his trade and his sons ran the farm. He was also a prominent contractor on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
210 H.C. YOUNG
H. C. Young was born December 30, 1854 in Montgomery County, the son of Col. W.F. and Mary Shelby Young. H.C. was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1830 and came to Tennessee when three years old. He owned a large farm in District 8, where he lived until the war broke out. W.F. and Mary had three children, H.C. and two that died in infancy. Mary died in 1858 and W.F. married Catharine Candle. They had two children: W.B. and L.A. When the war broke out, he joined Company G and was made captain. He was soon promoted to colonel. In the battle of Atlanta he lost an arm.
H.C. attended county schools and Central Point Military Academy. He married Eunice Pruitt in 1877. They had three children: Lena, Gordie and Claud.
He went into the mercantile business in 1880. In 1882 he moved to Dotsonville, and from there to Caskey, Kentucky where he stayed a year; he then came back to Montgomery County and went into the dry goods and grocery business at Sky View, Montgomery County.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
211 GUSTAVUS A. HENRY
Gustavus Henry was born October 8, 1804 in Scott County, Kentucky. His family was from Virginia and he was a descendent of Patrick Henry.
He moved to Christian County when he was fourteen. He attended the best schools and received a classical education, graduating from Transylvania University.
He represented Christian County in the Kentucky Legislature in 1831 and 1832. On February 17, 1833 he married Marion McClure of Clarksville, and moved to Tennessee.
He was the Whig elector for his district in 1840, and ran for Congress in 1842 against Cave Johnson. He was elector at large for the State in 1844, 1848 and 1852. In 1851-52 he was in the Legislature of Tennessee and in 1853 ran for Governor against Andrew Johnson. He was elected the first senator from Tennessee to the Confederate Congress.
Gustavus was greatly distinguished as a lawyer and a great orator. He died September 10, 1880.
From: Montgomery County, TN, Biographical Index
212 John Daniel Clardy
A Representative from Kentucky; born in Smith County, Tenn., August 30,1828; moved with his parents to Christian County, Kentucky, in 1831; attended the county schools, and was graduated from Georgetown (Kentucky) College in 1851; taught school one year; studied medicine at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, for one year, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1851; practiced his profession for a number of years, and then abandoned it to devote his time to scientific agriculture and stock raising; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1890; appointed as one of the State commissioners to the Colombian Exposition at Chicago in 1893; elected as a Democrat to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth Congresses
(March 4,1895 - March 3,1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 1898; retired from public life; died at his home, "Oak land." Near Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, on August 20,1918; interment in Clardy's County Cemetery, Bells, Christian County, Kentucky.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
213 HORACE H. LURTON
Horace Lurton was born February 26, 1844 in Campbell County, Kentucky, the son of Dr. L. and Sarah Harman Lurton. Dr. Lurton was born in 1820 in Scott County, Kentucky and died in Tennessee in 1877. Sarah was born in 1824 in Scott County, the daughter of Zebulon Harman of Virginia, and died in 1881 in Tennessee. Dr. Lurton's father was a leading physician in Kentucky. Zebulon was a minister, he organized the first church and Sunday school in Kentucky.
In 1861 Horace joined Col. Ben Hill's regiment and became sergeant-major, but was discharged in February, 1862, because of ill health. Later that same year he joined the Second Kentucky Regiment, and at the surrender of Ft. Donelson was taken prisoner to Camp Chase, Ohio. He escaped the following April, and two months later joined Company G, Third Kentucky Cavalry of Morgan's Brigade, and in July, 1863 was taken prisoner until the end of the war.
In 1865 he entered the law department of Cumberland University and graduated in 1867. He became a law partner of Hon. G.A. Henry. In 1877 he joined Hon. James Edmund Bailey. He was appointed chancellor in 1875 and re-elected in 1876. He joined C.G. Smith in 1878.
On September 17, 1867 he married Fannie Owen, born in 1845. They had three children: Leon O., Mary and Horace H. Jr.
In 1884 Horace became president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. and Knights of Pythias.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
214 J.G. JOSEPH
J.G. Joseph was born January 2, 1842 in Cincinnati, the son of Joseph and Rachel Wolf Joseph of England, and was of Jewish descent. Joseph was born in Exeter in 1801 and Rachel was born in Plymouth in 1814. Joseph was a jeweler who came to America in 1837 and settled in Clarksville. He died in Cincinnati in in 1873.
J.G. was raised in Ohio. At age 10 he went to live with an uncle in Indianapolis. and attended Northwestern Christian University and the Commercial College in that city.
He clerked for a number of years in his uncle's clothing store and in 1860 went into business for himself. In 1864 to 1869 he was a traveling salesman. Then came to Clarksville and opened a men's clothing store.
In 1872 he married Carrie Rexinger, the sister of Samuel Rexinger, who was postmaster of Clarksville for eighteen years. J.G. and Carrie had three children: Joseph, Ruby and Edith.
He was a Royal Arch Mason and was elected secretary in 1882. He was the first charter member of the K. of P. and in 1874 was elected Past Chancellor. He was the author of the degree of "Wise Men". He was first charter member of Abraham Lodge, I.O.O.B. in Indianapolis and was elected its president in 1866. He was elected representative of District Abraham Lodge, No. 58, I.O.O.B. (which consisted of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee.
J.G. was a delagate to every Democratic State Convention from 1870 until his death.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
215 CLARK FAMILY
Micajah Clark was the founder of the historical Clark family of this county. Of this family came soldiers, governors, legislators and professional men. Among them were Gen. George Rogers Clark; Gov. William Rogers Clark of Missouri ; Merriwether Lewis; Gov. James Clark of Kentucky; Gen. John B. Clark and M.L. Clark of Missouri; and James Clark Dearing of Virginia.
Micajah was born September 16, 1718 and married Judith Adams, born October, 1716. They had twelve children: Christopher, Robert, Mourning, Micajah, John, Edward, Penelope, Judith, Bowling, Elizabeth, James and William.
Micajah owned 40,000 acres in Albemarle County, Virginia. He was a good friend of Thomas Jefferson and laid off large plantations for Thomas and himself in Bedford County, Virginia.
William married Judith Cheadle, the daughter of Col. Tarleton Cheadle, an officer in the English Army who came to Virginia before the Revolutionary War. They had three children: James, who married Margaret Lewis and moved to Missouri; Jacob, who died young; and Micajah. William was a cavalry commander in the Revolutionary War.
Dr. Micajah Clark was a most distinguished physician in Virginia. The AMA has published his biography in their annals. He was born in Richmond on his father's plantation near the Keswick Station on January 28, 1788; he died in Richmond on August 19, 1849.
Micajah studied medicine in Richmond under Dr. Adams. He then entered the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, studying under Dr. Physick. He graduated in April 26, 1811.
He was appointed surgeon in the army in 1812 and served in two enlistments at Craney Island.
On December 29, 1819 he married his second cousin, Caroline Virginia Harris, the daughter of Benjamin James Harris, a wealthy tobacco merchant in Richmond. They had sixteen children: William James, Sarah Ellyson, Mary Elizabeth, Micajah Henry, Caroline Virginia, Ellen Douglas, Henry Auburn, Lewis Rogers, David Branch, Emily Auburn, and six infants that died without being named. Caroline died February 17, 1871.
Micajah Henry married Elizabeth W. Kerr, the daughter of M.M. Kerr of Clarksville. They had two children: Morris K. and a daughter. Micajah was chief clerk of the executive office and was the last acting treasurer of the Confederate States. Jefferson Davis made him a staff officer with the rank of captain and was reportedly the last Confederate officer on duty in November, 1865. He was also in the trenches and helped repel the Dahgren Raid on the city.
Micajah formed a partnership with his brother Lewis Rogers Clark in the tobacco trade in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Lewis joined Company A, Forty-ninth Tennessee Regiment, as a private and was captured at the surrender of Ft. Donelson and was sent to Camp Douglas. He was exchanged and was elected junior captain of the Tenth Tennessee, soon becoming senior captain. In the Battle of Chickamauga, eight of the ten captains were killed or wounded. Lewis was wounded at the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia. At the end of the war, he joined his brother in the tobacco business, representing the market of Hopkinsville.
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
216 JOHN HARTWELL MARABLE
John Marable was born Nov. 18, 1786 near Lawrenceville, Va., son of Henry Hartwell Marable. Henry was born in 1753 and died in 1833. He was descended from Capt. George Marable of Canterbury, England, who came to Virginia in 1652. His son, Maj. George Marable served as high sheriff and justice of the peace in James Co. and was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
John attended the University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department in 1805-06. (There is no record he received a degree.) He moved to Davidson County where he practiced medicine until 1812. He then moved to Clarksville where he practiced medicine in Montgomery, Stewart, Dickson and Humphreys county. He helped organize the first Medical Association in Tennessee.
On June 13, 1808 he married Ann J. (Nancy) Watson, born 1790 in Davidson County, the daughter of Thomas Watson, who came from Prince Edward Island, Virginia.
John's older brother, Benjamin and his wife Lucy Brown moved to Rutherford County, Virginia in 1818.
John was a member of the Clarksville City council, from which he resigned in 1819. He was State senator 1817-1819 and U.S. Congressman from 1824-1828.
In 1820 he moved to his plantation, "Escape", near Sailor's Rest.. He owned a large amount of land and many slaves. He owned interest in an iron furnace.
John died April 11, 1844 and is buried in Marable Cemetery on his plantation. It is located at the end of Hargrove-Marable Road.
One of his sons was Dr. John Hartwell Marable. He married Evelyn Smith and had eight children.
One of his sons was Samuel A., born Nov.2, 1857 and died Oct. 30, 1931. He married Elizabeth Jackson, born May 16, 1863 in Montgomery County and died on May 18, 1906. They had eight children: William H., died May 15, 1906 at age 15; Samuel A.; John Hartwell (Commissioner of Finance in Clarksville); Elizabeth; Mabel; Harding H. (died 1934); Repps C. (lived in Palmyra); Annis (married Isaac Powers of Detroit.
Samuel married Pearl Chambliss on Dec. 4, 1914, the daughter of J.C. and Nannie Allen Chambliss. They had one child, Nancy Elizabeth, who moved in Ashland City.
John Hartwell married Myrna Powers. They had a son, Samuel Addison. Samuel went to Vanderbilt Medical School and moved to Ohio. He died in 1970 and is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
217 THOMAS ADDISON JOHNSON
On the right as you pass thru the gate into Salem Church Cemetery is a tombstone with the name Thomas A. Johnson, Co A 10th Alabama Infantry, C. S. A. What do we know of this “Johnny Reb”?
He was born in Calhoun County, Alabama, around the year 1837. He enlisted in the Confederate Army on June 4, 1861 at Montgomery Alabama as a member of Co H, 10th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He served until January 1,1865.
Thomas Addison Johnson had two brothers and three sisters being John, Charlie, Jane, Polly, and Sudie.
On January 26,1870, He married Delia Elizabeth Clark, daughter of Thomas Henry Clark and Martha M. Hale Clark. The wedding was performed by J. T. Richardson, Justice of the Peace, and witnessed by H.C. Green and Mrs. Henrietta Harper. The event took place about six miles out from Clarksville. To this union were born ten children; Henry (1871), Martha (1875), Andrew (1877), John (1879), Alvina (1881), Cornelius (1884), Clark (1886), Nancy (1889), David (1891), and Charles Thomas (1893).
Thomas Addison Johnson, died at his home on November 18,1897, near Salem Church in the 17th District, of Consumption. He was about 60 years of age. Reverend Clyde held the funeral at Salem Church.
Delia Elizabeth Johnson applied for a pension allowed to indigent widows of soldiers on April 18,1927. She died on April 15,1930, five son’s served as pallbearers.
Descendants are as follows: Mrs. Nancy Lewis Hodges, daughter of Henry; Mr. Gordon Yarbrough, son of Martha (Mattie); Reverend Lauren Suiter, son of Nancy; Mrs. Mary D. Johnson, widow of Mack Johnson, daughter of Andrew; and Charles Uwren Johnson, son of Cornelius.
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
218 GEORGE HATTON WEEMS
Tucked away in the South-East corner of Montgomery County near the Dickson County and Cheatham County lines is a small community that has had many names; Walnut Grove, Turbine, Rye’s Chapel, and Clawhammer. The mailing address now is South-side, Tennessee. Two family names well known in this area, are the Rye’s and Weems.
Joseph Burch Weems married Elizabeth Rye, daughter of Dr. Thomas Hartwell Rye and Martha Ellington (Hagewood) Rye. To this union, one of the children was a boy by the name of George Hatton Weems.
This lad was born on September 27,1891. He attended Southwestern Presbyterian University at Clarksville 1912 - 1913. He received his BS from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) in 1917, in time to serve with the 2nd Division during 1917 - 1919. He was commander of a Machine Gun Company and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor. He served as an instructor at the Infantry School 1920 - 1923, graduated in 1923, and served as the Asst Commandant in 1942 - 1945. He was a professor of Military Science and Tactics at Davidson College in North Carolina during 1923 - 1927. He was an Instructor at West Point in 1928 - 1929. He attended the Command and General Staff College in 1928 and the Army War College in 1934. He was the Asst Commandant of the Tactical School in 1929 - 1933. The years 1939 - 1941, he was Chief of U.S. Military Mission to Haiti. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in 1942.
In 1946, he was assigned as U.S. Representation on the Allied Control Commission for Hungary, and in 1947 became Provost Marshal of the European Command. Before retiring at age 60, he served as Chief of the Military District of Georgia. He retired on September 30,1951. General Weems died at Fort Campbell on February 25,1957. His home was Waverly, Tennessee. He was a bachelor and was affectionately referred to as “Daddy Weems”. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Other awards earned included Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Army Occupation Medal, Croix de Guerre, Order of Crown of Italy, Commander Haiti Order of Honor and Merit. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Volumes 26 - 27 dated 1950 - 1951 and 1052 - 1953.
From: Memorabilia of Montgomery County
219 ROBERT LOFTON NEWMAN
A plaque on the corner of Main and Sixth reads:
Robert Lofton Newman-1827-1912
Born in Richmond, Virginia, he moved with his family to Clarksville when he was 11. He studied art in New York, England and France. Nationally recognized for his work, over 190 of his paintings have been located. Newman served as a lieutenant in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1864. Although he traveled extensively, his permanent home was the house which stood at the corner of Main & 6th St. Newman died in New York but was returned to Clarksville for burial.
From: Memorabilia of Montgomery County
220 THOMAS BATSON
Thomas and Elizabeth Batson came from Halifax County, North Carolina
between 1803 and 1806 along with other families such as Samuel Smith,
William Sullivan, William Harvey, Randall (or Rudolph) Bull and William
Porter. They settled around Barton's Creek on the south side of the
river.
Thomas and Elizabeth had 12 or 13 children, most of them also having a dozen or more children.
Batson Cemetery is located behind the Carr-Harvey house which has
been in the same family since 1809.
Nearby is Samuel Smith's house which was one of the earliest houses built in Clarksville. It was still being lived in in 1980. This house served as the Post Office of Dogwood, Tennessee and during the Civil War, soldiers were hid in the attic.
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
221 WILLIAM CORLEW
The earliest record located of the Corlew family in Montgomery County dates back to the July term of the Court of 1803 of which William Corlew is identified as a bondsman. First deed recorded is in Deed Book B, page 670, which states in part, "William Corlew, deed of 170 acres from Hayden Wells, 20th day of My 1804, both listed as from this county, paid $220; property located on the Southside of Cumberland River and on the waters of Camp Creek." (Near David Hinton's) William Corlew, Sr. was a plantation owner in the Salem area and is listed as the only Corlew family in this county in the 1820 Census. He is listed as having 2 sons and 6 daughters.
In 1841, William Corlew was declared a lunatic and incapable of managing his own affairs with safety to himself and others. His son, John Corlew was appointed Guardian to William Corlew, Sr. At that time, March 24, 1841, he owned 467 acres, two homes, livestock, farm items, and the following slaves: Jacob, Charles, Cary, Abram, David, Cily, Margaret, Peggy, Jane, Decatur, Levi, Martha, Burrel, Jerry, Dilieu, and Princeton.
As of September 10, 1841, William Corlew, Sr. was listed as deceased.
Seven of his eight children are:
Hester R. Corlew, born December 8,1803, died September 30,1881; married John Cocke; buried at Cocke Cemetery on the McClure farm in old Dist. 17.
Mary Jane Corlew, married Nathan Gilbert in 1839.
Sylvia Corlew married John Laughren, a descendant being Mrs. Cathy Turnage, Tulsa, Okalahoma.
Benjamin Corlew, born January 26,1802; married Margaret Young, a descendant being Bruce Corlew, Clarksville, Tennessee.
John Corlew, born around 1808, married L???. (see 1860 census of Dickson, Tennessee.)
Thomas W. Corlew married Susan P. Moore in 1844. Members of Chapel Hill Church in 1850, listed in Humphreys County in 1870.
William Corlew, Jr. born around 1810, died June 3,1881, buried in Salem Cemetery; married Eliza Pritchard in 1842; members of Chapel Hill Church in 1850. Their children :
Rufus M. born 1844, Doctor in Evansville, Mary Catherine, born May 11,1846, died March 25,1906; married Thomas Rogers; buried on Albert Jones farm in Dist. 17; David Lewis, born August 25,1854, died Ju? 16,1900; married Kate H. Lyle in 1892; buried on Albert Jones farm in Dist. 17; William Ervin, born January 1850, died June 25,1927; married Louise Lowe in 1883; buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
222 WILLIAM CLEMENTS
He immigrated to the United States at the close of the Revolutionary War leaving his parents in Scotland. Their only request was that he receive a liberal and religious education. I do not know when he was born or when he married. His interest in our area first appears around 1804-1805 when he purchased large tracts of land on the waters of Yellow Creek and built a plantation there and named it "Snow Hill".
As early as 1807, William Clements and John H. Hyde (merchants) purchased Lot #69 of the town of Palmyra from Morgan Brown who founded the town. This lot was located on the corner of 2nd St and Main St. He and others later purchased and sold many lots in the town of Palmyra. Two of the lots contained Isaac Morgan's Tavern and Kitchen. On November 2, 1809 he was appointed commissioner for the town of Palmyra.
William Clements was a brother-in-law of Col. George West who was the father of Robert West, a wealthy landowner of Dickson County. Col. George West died in 1810 and is buried in the Dunbar Cemetery.
On October 16,1810, William Clement purchased 320 acres from the estate of Col. George West. The land was located near present day Corbandale adjacent to Wright Outlaw's property and Burrell Bailey's property.
The 1820 census lists his neighbors as William Hankins and James Fentress.
William Clements and his wife Sarah had the following children:
William R. B. Clements...lived in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
Christopher C. Clements...was the Registrar of Stewart County, Tennessee 1824-36
John H. Clements
Robert Clements
Eliza W. Clements...married Thomas Napiers
Mary C. Clements...married John C. Collier
Arabella L. Clements...married Curtiss Bayliss
Catherine McKenzie Darlett Clements...married J.C. Ingram. She is buried in Dunbar Cemetery, August 12,1810-October 16,1838
William Clements died at his residence on the main fork of Yellow Creek on either 4 or 9 of February 1822. At the time of his death he owned many slaves. Some of the slaves he wanted to keep in the family and not be sold were Andy, George, Nancy, Hannaby, Sophy, Penny and Edward. Other slaves were Henry, Taff, Henry, Anthony, David, Arthur, Alfred, Pollas, Rose and Cytherea.
I believe William Clements and his beloved wife Sara are both buried at Dunbar Cemetery.
The plantation near Corbandale was known as "Richland on Cumberland" and was located across the river from the town of New York, which is now called York Landing.
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
223 BARLOW DUNBAR
House,48th Gen. assembly, 1891 - 93. Rep. Mont. co. Democrat. Born in Stewart co. Tenn., ca.1841; son of Elsie Dunbar; wife named Rosa, she was a native of Mayfield, Kentucky, children: Elsie, Dixie, Herman, William, Alice, and Dale. Farmed at Riggins Mill, Montgomery County. In Confederate Army; enlisted as Private, Co. B. 14th Tenn. Inf. at Clarksville, May 17,1861. Member Cumberland Presbyterian Church; Free Accepted Masons. Died at Riggins Mill March 16,187?; buried in Dunbar Family graveyard, Montgomery County. Kinsman of Samuel Cuyler Dunbar, sometime member of Tenn. Gen. Assembly. (Biographical Directory Tenn. Gen. Assembly- Sources, S. Cuyler Dunbar, Woodlawn, House Journal, page798. Con. Service records, roll 174.)
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
224 DR. RAYMOND MARVIN GRAHM
July 24,1933--Lying at rest in the Swift Cemetery off Oak Ridge Road near Palmyra is the remains of Dr. Raymond Marvin Graham. Dr. Graham departed this life at the age of 51. He was a native of Big Sandy, Tennessee. He began his professional career in 1911 as a general practician after becoming a licensed physician from Vanderbilt University. He practiced in Palmyra. January 1917 he married a local lady, Miss Winnie Swift. He decided to specialize in malachies of the eye, ear, nose, and throat and took postgraduate courses in the Universities of St. Louis and Chicago. He completed his studies in 1921. Dr. and Mrs. Graham moved to Clarksville where he established an office and rapidly forged to the front in his profession. He succeeding Dr. George E. Vaughn, who had moved to Louisville. He purchased the former home of John West at 427 Franklin Street, which was also once owned by Mrs. Lewis Gold. It was here that he suffered his last illness. A malignant illness was the cause of his death. Every thing that a devoted wife and concerned fellow physicians and surgeons could do for him was done. Twice he went through the clinic at Vanderbilt Hospital and on July 4 was conveyed to John Hopkins Hospital, but specialists held out no hope for recovery. During the 12 years in which he had lived in Clarksville, Dr. Graham made many friends and was regarded as one of the outstanding specialists in this part of the state. His pleasing personality and modesty made Dr. Graham exceedingly popular and his counsel was highly valued. He was a man of quiet dignity and involuntarily commanded the confidence and respect of the public and loved by his patients. Dr. Graham was a member of Madison Street Methodist Church. He was also a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and a former member of the Kiwanis Club. A keen sportsman, Dr. Graham belonged to the Blue Wing Hunting Club. He was a real sportsman in every sense of the word, and one of his most enjoyable forms of recreation was in bird hunting. He usually possessed one or more purebred bird dogs. He was a past president of the Montgomery County Medical Society of which members were honorary pallbearers:
Dr. J.H. Ledbetter
Dr. Frank J. Runyon
Dr. Bryce Runyon
Dr. John Ross
Dr. M.L. Shelby
Dr. E.B. Ross
Dr. H.H. Edmondson
Dr. R.B. Macon
Dr. H.A. Nesbitt
Dr. L.L. Neblett
Dr. E.M. Rogers
Dr. Maurice Langos Highes
Dr. W.L. Macon
Dr. F.J. Malone
Dr. Irving Emerson Hunt
Dr. W.H. Young
Dr. R.L. Norris
Dr. F.C. Outlaw
Dr. Robert Phinous Frazier
Dr. F.A. Martin.
From: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
225 JAMES B. REYNOLDS
A Representative from Tennessee; born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1779; attended the common schools; immigrated to the United States and settled in Clarksville, Tennessee; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1804 and practiced; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4,1815-March 3,1817); elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4,1823-March 3,1825); resumed the practice of law; died in Clarksville, Tennessee, June 10,1851; interment in Riverview Cemetery.
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
226 LOUIS RAYMOND POWERS
Louis Powers was born February 5,1892 in Montgomery County, the son of Elijah and Mary Webb Powers of old District 19. His brothers and sisters were: Alpha, Wylie Jerome, Homer, Clay Winstead, Roxie, Dixie and Dora.
During World War I he served in France, in Company G, 323 Infantry, 81st Division.
On June 8,1921, he assisted the American Legion Post #7 in the funeral of Private James Stanley Lisenby in Myers Cemetery, who died during WW1. He served four years as constable of District 19 and six years as a deputy sheriff under Sheriff William Egbert Beaumont.
On June 3,1941, Louis married Mrs. Anna Belle Jones.
He campaigned for Sheriff in the election of August 1946. He defeated Mannie W. Sanderson by 295 votes. The third candidate was Clyde N. Foust, Jr.
He ran for re-election in 1948. Mannie Sanderson defeated Louis by 125 votes. Former sheriff Tom Huggins received 276 votes.
When Lee Wood was elected sheriff in 1954, Louis was appointed and served as his chief deputy until Lee's death in 1959. At that time, the Quarterly Court appointed Louis as interim Sheriff until the next election in 1960.
During the early 60's, he owned and operated Powers Grocery Store in the Tarsus community. He was a member of the Palmyra Masonic Lodge.
Louis Raymond died December 21,1970. He is buried at the Powers Cemetery on Wylie Powers Road.
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
227 WALTER FREEMAN SUITER
Walter was born on May 12,1896 and died on April 15,1986. Nellie was born on October 28,1901and died on May 23,1992. Both are buried and have a tombstone together at Fairview Cemetery near Indian Mound in Stewart County. The marriage lasted over 66 years.
Walter Freeman Suiter and Nellie Woolard married in 1919. He was a veteran of World War I. In the 1940’s they went to Michigan and his obituary states he was a retired machinist for General Motors.
J.W. Suiter was born on July 9,1925 and died on the night of August 20,1930 at age 5 years, 1 month, and 11 days. Today, July 26,1999 (69 years later), he remains in an unmarked grave at Antioch Methodist Church Cemetery. I believe he is there next to his grandmother, Julia Suiter, on the back row at the side of the church.
Other known children born to this union were Melvin Bradford, Freeman Patrick, Robert, and Virginia.
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
228 SHILOH / ANTIOCH
Letter from Grand Child of Buyde Allen Ussery
January 7,1989--In answer to your question about my grandmother, I’ll try to provide you with additional information. My grandmother, Buyde, remarried; she married Amos Tillman Felts, and the family moved to Leesburg, Virginia. Mr. Felts was the principal of the high school in Leesburg. He died when my mother, Elizabeth Ussery, was still in school. My mother and grandmother moved to East Falls Church, Virginia, and mom graduated from high school at Western High in Washington, D.C. (East Falls Church is a Washington suburb.)
Mom and my grandmother both worked for the federal government. Mom married my father, Frank M. Cole, in 1928. Daddy worked for Magruders, an imported goods grocery store in Washington. I was born in 1938. My parents and I moved to a farm in Puscellville, Va. in 1948, when daddy retired from the store.
I visited relatives in Tennessee frequently with mom. Knowing that my grandfather “Dr. Ben Ussery” graduated from the University of Tennessee, I attended UT and got my degree there in 1960. Mom and daddy continued to live on the farm after daddy retired from farming. I had 3 sons, Tom, Mike, and Jim.
My husband died in 1976, and my father died in 1977. Mother lived alone on the farm until last spring when she was hospitalized. As you know she passed away in November 1988 at the age of 84.
Sincerely,
Ann Cole Hughes
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
229 PUGH JACKSON-WILLIAMS
Letter from Nancy Tatera, Gurnee, Illinois
June 14,1925-August 14,1992--In the March 96 and April 96 issues of Duck’s Old Time Journal” I wrote of the shooting of Pugh Jackson and the trial of John R. Williams. For the rest of the story I present the following letter from the granddaughter of Pugh Jackson and great-granddaughter of John R. Williams:
The four year old little boy playing in that courtroom was my father, Pugh Jackson, Jr. His grandfather spent his two years in prison, and upon release, took my dad to raise. Pugh Jackson-Williams grew up in the Palmyra/Clarksville communities under his “Pappy’s” guidance. He taught my dad to respect those who gave him respect.
My dad lived his younger years under such a shadow of mystery (the Pugh Jackson killing) and degradation (Fannie & Pugh Jackson never married). Dad told me stories of his youth spent on the streets of Clarksville, living hand-to-mouth by people’s charity. He had minimal vision in one eye caused by malnutrition as a child. My favorite of his stories was about cowboys and Indians. Many deadly battles had been fought in Dad’s front yard-keeping him awake all night. Some mornings he would have to step over bodies on his way to school.
Dad attended Howell School and played baseball with the neighborhood boys behind the Tobacco Factory off of Spring Street. As anyone who lived in those times knows, life was not often easy. In 1945-1946, Dad worked as the floor manager at Lena Brown’s Roller Rink where he taught skating and did repairs. He wore a size seven boot and when he strapped on a pair of roller skates, he was king of the rink. Everyone stopped to watch him perform. He made it look so easy as he got lost in time and skated with the grace of Rudolf Nureyev dancing. He became a skater of almost a professional level and for a bonus; he met and married my mother, Dorothy Duenow from Wisconsin.
Dad delivered coal and ice for the Montgomery County Ice Company depending on the seasons. Dad worked six days a week from sun up till late in the night. In the summer, his tools of the trade were ice tongs, ice pick, a big scoop steel shovel and a strong back. He delivered blocks of ice to every big or little icebox in Palmyra. When his customers did not have the 5 cents to 20 cents to pay for the ice, Pugh left it anyway. In the winter months he delivered coal. He knew everyone by name in these familiar “hills and hollers” of his birth. He held many other jobs, including one at R.B. Lester’s Produce on College Street.
Dad and Mom moved temporarily to Wisconsin in 1947. While there, he worked for the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, Yates American Machine Shop, Mork’s Foundry, and Fairbanks-Morris. I was born there in Wisconsin in 1949.
We returned to Clarksville in 1949. Dad and Mom took work anywhere they could find it. The three of us lived in “Black Bottom:” with Fanny(my Grandmother) and Sam Gill. Nancy Cox (my maternal grandmother) would often take my brother John and I to the First Baptist Chapel on Spring Street. All races lived in the area without any difficulty and our only common denominator was that we were poor. My brother John was born in 1951, sister Janice born and died in 1954, and brother Terry in 1955.
In 1959, the five of us left Clarksville bound for Chicago. With $50.00 and all of our meager belongings packed into a 1950 Plymouth, we made the 450-mile trip without incident. When we arrived, we lived with my maternal grandmother. Dad got a job with Kirscheimer Bag Company within two days of our arrival. By April of 1960, we had our own apartment where our youngest family member Mark was born.
My father found work as a mover/semi-truck driver where he worked 20 hours a day, most times seven days a week. Mom worked the second shift at Motorola. Day by day and month by month things steadily improved for the family.
Dad would take us fishing whenever we had the chance to get out into the “Country”. Mom and Sad bought a home in 1972. Dad taught us all including his five grandchildren to fish, ride bikes, and roller skate. He also taught us to give an honest days work for an honest days pay. He was so very proud that his children were able to have an education.
As a child, Pugh spent many hours watching the cowboy serials at the Roxy Theater in Clarksville. From these hard ridin’ , straight shootin’ heroes, he learned that a man is only as good as his word and that a handshake was the only contract honest men needed. Pugh’s Ten Commandments were stated in four words, “hurt no one intentionally.”
Dad was killed in a work related accident on August 14,1992 at the age of 67. He was returned to Clarksville and laid to rest in Riverview Cemetery because that was his wish.
Nancy Tatera, Gurnee, Illinois
Read about the trial of John R. Williams in Keeping the Peace article #73
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
230 JOSEPH NATHANIEL BLACKFORD
Joseph Nathaniel Blackford (1841-1908) House, 48th General Assembly, 1893-1895; representing Montgomery and Houston Counties; Independent. Born in 22nd Civil District of Montgomery County on January 5,1841; son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Wickham) Blackford. Extent of schooling not determined. Married in Montgomery County on March 6,1861, to Rebecca Maria Matthews, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Batson) Matthews; their fifteen children were: Martha L., Benjamin, Thomas M., John C., Eliza A., Josephus R., Samuel Wickham, William, Kittie, Bertha M., an infant son who died at birth, Richard Aaron, Eliker, Robert Chesterfield, and Nathaniel Baskette Blackford. Engaged in farming and practice of law at McAllister’s Crossroads, Montgomery County. Member county court 1876-1882. Member Methodist Church; charter member McAllister’s Crossroads Lodge, Free and Accepted Mason; member Patrons of Husbandry and overseer of state Grange.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
231 LEE NESBITT WOOD
This lad was born on October 31,1905 the son of Daniel Mallory Wood and Catherine Eudora Lee Wood. They lived in the Rye’s Chapel Community along with his two sisters, Mary Irene and Beulah Elizabeth, and adopted brother, Ike. He attended Walnut Grove School and graduated from Southside High School, the class of 1926. Lee and Irene went in the buggy the five miles rain or shine to Southside. After graduation, he went to Detroit and worked at Ford Motor Company for a few years, then back home to the Rye’s Chapel Community, where he worked on the farm and did other odd jobs. During the winter months, he worked in tobacco sales. His first job in law enforcement was as a deputy sheriff under Montgomery County Sheriff William Egbert Beaumont during the 1930’s. He served four years as a deputy sheriff. He was a Tennessee State Trooper when he was drafted into the Army on January 20,1943. He first entered serve at Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia and later at Camp Atterbury in Indiana. He served as a Military Policeman. He received an Honorable Discharge from the military service on September 14,1945. His last unit being Headquarters Detachment, Prisoner of War Camp SCU 1570. He was separated as a Private First Class at the Separation Center, Ft. McPherson, Georgia (Drafted age 37).
He returned to the Tennessee Highway Patrol after military service. He had a total of 12 years service with the Highway Patrol, serving both Montgomery and Dickson counties. Lee was shot with a shot gun in his left side under the arm while trying to make an arrest in the Cumberland Heights area. His sister stated “you could hear the shot falling out on the floor at the hospital”.
Lee Nesbitt Wood was elected Sheriff of Montgomery in 1954. There were six candidates in the race: Kenneth Albright (elected sheriff at a later election); Sterling Baggett; Norman Burton; Clyde Foust; J.A. “Booster” Moore,(Chief Deputy and son-in-law of Sheriff Mannie Sanderson), and Lee N. Wood. Wood won 19 of the 21 county precincts. His slogan was “I know how to enforce the laws”.
From: As told by Robert Davidson (Duck’s Journal)
232 WILLIE D. BYARD
Willie D. Byard and Ida M. Hughes were married in 1909. He died on June 25,1928, and is buried in Pleasant View Church Cemetery. He was a member of the Antioch Methodist Church, Woodmen of the World Camp at Antioch, and Jr. Order of United American Mechanics at Hackberry. Kids were Edith, Sarah, Christine, Myrtle, Mina, Dorothy, Edwin, Bradley and Toby.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
233 WILLIAM H. DEAN
William H. Dean was born on January 31,1853 and married Nora Suiter on December 20,1863. They were married in Clarksville on August 27, 1881 by the late S. A. Caldwell, District 12 Justice of the Peace.
Until 31 years ago, Mr. Dean was engaged in farming. With the establishment of free delivery of mail in the rural districts out of the Clarksville Post Office, Mr. Dean became a substitute carrier. He substituted on the various routs out of the local office for three years and then was appointed carrier on Route 6 through his home community. He held this position for seventeen years, or until he was 67 years of age. He was retired by the post office department with an annuity on August 20,1920. Then he reestablished himself in farming activities and was elected to the quarterly court from District 13. He has been a magistrate for a greater portion of his retirement.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean have an interesting progeny consisting of five daughters and four sons, 17 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. The children are: Percy, Hart, Lillie, and Douglas (all dead); Walter, Fountain, Mrs. J.R. Davidson, Mrs. J.S. Moore Jr., and Mrs. Boyd Trotter.
From: As told by Mrs. A.C. Harvey
234 GRANGE HALL COMMUNITY
November 15,1958--During the reconstruction period following the was between the states, there were three families living in Grange Hall Community believed to have been the first settlers here.
They were the McCauleys, Smiths and McCallisters. For vast sums of money loaned the Confederates, McCallister was given large tracts of land in payment for the money loaned.
Without money or slaves to cultivate the land he divided it into large size farms and gave it to his relatives for homesteads.
The Community was called McCallister Cross Roads, and even after a hundred years have passed, people still speak of the McCallister fields and boundary lines.
In the year of 1800, Nancy Smith married Thomas H. Batson and to this union was born a large family of children, they were; Tom, Smith, Willie, Blunt, Alex, Zack, William, Richard, John, Kittie, Bettye, Nancy, and Joan.
Of their descendants who had homes here were; Calvin, Willie II, Sam, Charlie, Bob, Nannie, Ann, Sarah, Mollie, Mildred, Blanch, and their families.
They were children of Tom Batson and Malinda Gillum Batson.
Children of John Batson and Nola Daniel Batson were; Clarence, Walter, Vernon, Ernest, and Delma.
Daughters of Mrs. Jim Edd Neblett (Kittie Batson) were Mrs. Edd E. Rye and Mrs. John Harper.
Children of Mrs. Sim Talley (Bettye Batson) with homes here were; Mrs. Sarah Batson, Gipp Talley, and Mrs. Joe Morrison.
There were other Batson’s related to this family including Carney, Sid, Will, and Millard.
By the year of 1885 the community was almost entirely populated by Batson families.
From: History of Tennessee
235 ROBERT FRENCH FERGUSON JR.
Ferguson, Robert French Jr., born February 10,1815 in Massachusetts, died May 12,1882 in Montgomery County. He was married to Nancy M. Barker, born November 17,1820, the daughter of John Barker, "the richest man in the county". She died in 1884. They had nine children.
From: History of Tennessee
236 WILLIAM BRANDEAU
Brandeau, William, born July 3,1833, died Oct. 22,1895. Born in Germany, he came to the U.S. at 19. He married Anna Miller, born January 15,1846 in Germany. He worked in the pig iron industry. He is buried in Montgomery County.
From: The River Counties
237 HOWELL V. HOPSON
Howell Hopson was a doctor who wrote a book about Physical Education. He was from Montgomery County and provides insight into medical practices of the Clarksville area in 1836.
He did not provide an in-depth treatment of any topic. Copies are available from Austin Peay State University.
From: Daily Tobacco Leaf
238 RICHARD COVINGTON WYATT
Dec. 25, 1891--Dr. Richard Covington Wyatt practiced medicine in New Providence in the late 1800's. He was born August 22,1815, son of Thomas and Priscilla Hardy Wyatt who came to Montgomery County in 1815.
The family settled on Budd's Creek and later on Seven Mile Ferry.
Richard was a member of the Salem Methodist Church. On December 6,1862 he married Nancy Jane Edmondson. They moved to the corner of Beech and E Street. Richard died December 24,1891.
From: The River Counties
239 JOHN MILLER
John Miller was "the grape man" in the late 1800's and early 1900's. He pruned and attended to the vineyards of Clarksville. He and his wife Wilhelmina Keller lived at Dahlia Dell which was the garden spot of Clarksville, near where "The Stables Restaurant" was. The Miller Cemetery is on the hillside close to the Stables. There are at least six Millers buried there. Millers still living in Clarksville are descended from John's sister Sophia, who married Henry Newhouse Sr.
From: The River Counties
240 MARCELLUS C. RHINEHART
Marcellus C. Rhinehart of Henrietta-Fredonia, died June 7,1984 in Marshfield, Missouri. He was the last surviving member of the Night Riders.
Only a teenager at the time, he took part in several daring escapades against the Tobacco trust, including commandeering a train and using it for a raid on Hopkinsville.
From: The Corn Sheller
241 HORACE HARMON LURTON
Horace Lurton was born in 1844 in Newport, Campbell County, Ky. Shortly after, his father, Dr. L.L. Lurton, moved his family to Clarksville and built a home at 625 Madison St.
Horace went to Douglas University in Chicago but left in his sophomore year at age 17 to join the Confederate Army as a trooper under Gen. John H. Morgan.
Three years later, he was captured and interred at Johnson's Island in Lake Erie. His health deteriorated so that his mother made an appeal to Pres. Lincoln for his pardon. Horace was carried half dead in a blanket by a comrade and taken home.
Soon after, he enrolled at Cumberland University in Lebanon, one of a class of eleven who all became prominent. He graduated in 1867.
Horace became the youngest member of the Clarksville Bar Assoc. and practiced twenty years with such men as G.A. Henry, James E. Bailey, Charles G. Smith and Charles W. Tyler.
The home he built on Second Street, facing Madison St., is now used for law offices. He was also a vestryman at the Trinity Episcopal Church.
Horace served as Chancellor of District 1 from 1875 to 1878, then as Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1886, then as Chief Justice of that court in 1893. In that year Pres. Grover Cleveland appointed him Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court.
He became friends with another judge, William Howard Taft. When Taft assumed the Presidency in 1909, he appointed Horace to the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the fourth confederate soldier to become a member of the Court. His salary was approximately $12,500 per year. He served only four years and died of a heart attack at age 70 on July 13, 1914. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
A classmate at the Cumberland University said of him that he was "a close student of the law, to which he confined his attention almost altogether, rarely reading literature. He possessed an uncommon degree of common sense, with reasoning facilities of high order and a great love and aptitude for legal research. He was not a public speaker or advocate. His temperament was judicial. He was proud, honorable and never known to be guilty of a dishonorable act."
From: Texas Historical Society
242 JOSEPH P. BAYLISS
Joseph Bayliss of Dotsonville was the only Montgomery Countian killed at the Alamo in 1836.
Age 28; private; single; he came to Texas from Tennessee in 1836, one of Col. Crockett's band. He was the son of John B. and Patience Bayliss. (The name is misspelled Baliess on the Texas Monument)
From: History of Tennessee Illustrated
243 IRWIN B. BEAUMONT
William Egbert Beaumont and Erwin Beaumont were both descended from Henry F. Beaumont and Sarah G. Anderson Beaumont who moved to Clarksville in about 1829 from Lynchburg, Virginia.
Another descendant of a Beaumont was married to a sheriff of Montgomery County more recently (Catherine Beaumont Rudolph?? She was still alive in Clarksville a few years ago but her husband, the sheriff had died).
Details of Irwin B. Beaumont, the sheriff : his parents Henry F. Beaumont, born December 31, 1800 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died December 1864(?) - living in 1851 at Port Royal, Montgomery County, Tennessee; married in Lynchburg, Virginia. in 1819 to Sarah G. Anderson, born 1802 in Cumberland County, Virginia., the daughter of Captain James P. Anderson (also known as Sam Anderson of Stonewall, Appatomox County, Virginia.) and of Sarah Pierce Anderson, but Sterling G. Anderson was her surety in 1822 (ie. gave consent for the marriage as Sarah was only 17 at the Quaker ceremony), died May 14,1876 in Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee.
Adeline R. Beaumont born(?) October 31,1821 in Lynchburg, Virginia(?), died July 15,1842 (possibly in childbirth) buried in Riverview Cemetery, Clarksville, Tennessee; married June 17,1841 in Montgomery Co, Tennessee to Joseph M. Irwin, born August 14,1811, died November 2,1848 in New Orleans of yellow fever; children:
Irwin B. (nickname "Bish?" but middle name probably Boothroyd) W. Beaumont, born October 20,1841 in Montgomery Co, Tennessee [probably named after the Methodist clergyman in Clarksville, Reverend Irwin or after his brother-in-law, Joseph M. Irwin who may have been a son of Rev Irwin].
Irwin B. Beaumont was a 1st Lieutenant, Company H, 14th Tennessee Infantry - the only one of four brothers to survive the Civil War (more details available). He was County Sheriff from 1872-1874, died October 17, 1876 n i - and married(?) Nannie W. McClure, daughter of R. W. McClure (Nannie McClure Beaumont started at White Chapel School, Rossview, Montgomery County in 1851 when it opened), died May 20,1868 near Clarksville, buried in Clarksville; no children [most probably the Mrs Nannie Beaumont mentioned in White Chapel School history and great aunt of Robert Beaumont who was in the graduating class of White Chapel School in 1930 and who interviewed his great aunt in 1930]
A nephew of Irwin B. Beaumont was Irwin Fletcher Beaumont 1881-1917.
From: The Clarksville Jeffersonian
244 GUILFORD TALLEY
January 5,1859--He was born in the State of North Carolina. Appointed as a Justice of Peace, and at another time, he was appointed Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court, held in Warrenton, North Carolina. (Warren County)
In 1830, he became united in marriage with Miss Nancy P. Southerland June 11,1830, daughter of James Southerland, of North Carolina. A lady, every way worthy the man, whom she accepted as her companion through life, and by whom he had seven affectionate children, five daughters and two sons; all of whom he lived to see married and settled except three, his youngest daughter and his two sons, the youngest of whom (being the youngest child) was sixteen years old a few days after the sad and melancholy death of his lamented father.
In the year 1842, he moved to Tennessee from North Carolina, as a stranger, unknown, and unacquainted with but few citizens of the state, but he was a man eminently qualified to make friends where ever he went, and died surrounded by as many warm admirers in Tennessee as he could have left in North Carolina.
Having been an exemplary member of the Predestination Baptist Church for forty years, indeed it may be said of him, that he was the rich man’s counselor, the poor man’s friend, and the admiration of those who knew him best.
Jessie Daniel
Children of Guilford and Nancy Talley:
Harriett M. married Dr. Elijah W. Cunningham descendant of
Judge John Talley Cunningham
Rebecca P. married Hugh Dunlop
Emily B. married Gilbert T. Abernathy descendant of Glenn Abernathy
Maria Ann married Theodore Hicks Baxter
married Carvossa B. Plummer descendant of Joel Plummer
Simmon Sullivan married Mary Elizabeth Batson
Sarah E. married Andrew Abernathy brother of Gilbert Abernathy
George F. married Mary Abernathy daughter of Gilbert Abernathy