ROBERT L. ADAMS, clerk and master of the Chancery Court of Marshall county, was born June 15, 1833, in that part of Bedford County now included in Marshall County.  He was reared on the farm but on account of physical disability did not engage in hard manual labor.  He received a good practical education in the country schools and at the age of nineteen commenced teaching in the schools of this county, where he continued for ten years.  In 1862 he was elected county court clerk and held that office for a period of twelve years. In 1876 he was appointed clerk and master of the Chancery Court and is still holding that position. When the Bank of Lewisburg was re-established in 1885, Mr. Adams was elected as its president, besides he is one of the directors of the same institution.  Previous to this, in 1860, he wedded Jane E. Bell, and by her became the father of seven children, six of whom are living.  Politically Mr. Adams is a firm supporter of Democratic principles. For fifty years he has been a citizen of Marshall County and for twenty-two years of that time he has held positions of  trust and honor.  This fact alone speaks louder for his ability and popularity than mere words.  His parents were Alexander D. and Elizabeth (LaRue) Adams, both natives of Virginia and both members of the Presbyterian Church.  The father was a stanch Democrat, although all his brothers were Whigs previous to the war. He died in 1866, and the mother passed away in 1875.
 

CLINTON A. ARMSTRONG, junior member of the firm of Smithson & Armstrong, is a son of George and Margaret (Orr) Armstrong, natives, respectively, of Virginia and Tennessee.  After marriage they settled in that part of this county, formerly included in Bedford County.  Their family consisted of ten children, nine of whom are living.  The father followed the occupation of a tiller of the soil and was also engaged in stock trading.  He did not aspire to public places, but rather chose to perform the duties of a quiet citizen.  the mother was a member of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church, and is still living on the old homestead at the ripe old age of seventy-six.  Our subject was born in Marshall County, was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools.  He subsequently attended Lewisburg Academy.  In 1868 he commenced reading law with Col. W. N. Cowden, and the following year was admitted to the bar.  In 1869 he led to alter Maggie Kercheval, by whom he had two children, one of whom is living.  For seven years he was partner of Col. Cowden, but afterward went into partnership with Smithson, which continues to the present.  Mrs. Armstrong was a member of the Presbyterian Church; she died April 20, 1886.  Mr. Armstrong is a Democrat, and has been practicing his profession for seventeen years in Lewisburg, and has received his share of the business of the county.
 

THOMAS H. BELL, farmer, was born February 27, 1820, in Wilson County, and had a limited advantage for schooling though he has supplied the deficiency by private study.  At the age of nineteen he was joined in marriage to Martha A. O'Neal, who was born in 1824.  This union resulted in the birth of six children.  At the end of ten years the mother died and in 1854 our subject wedded Elizabeth J. Bruce, who was born April 27, 1834.  This union was blessed by the birth of twelve children.  Mr. Bell is a supporter of Democratic principles and he and wife are active members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He has held the office of constable, deputy sheriff and magistrate, respectively.  He was a strong Union man and is a solid prohibitionist.  He has on of the best farms of 130 acres in the county though he has devoted considerable time to house carpentering, running engines and superintending mills.  He is a son of Fielding and Elizabeth (Jenkins) Bell.  The father was born in Virginia and came to Tennessee in 1802.  The mother was a native of Tennessee and was a daughter of Col. Jenkins of Revolutionary fame.  After marriage they moved to Wilson and finally to Bedford County in 1826 where they spent the remainder of their days.  In 1854 the father died and in 1879 the mother, too, passed away.
 

NEWTON B. EWING is a son of James Ewing, who was born in the "Keystone State" in 1782.  After residing in Georgia for some time he came to Tennessee, and, soon after his marriage to Mary Neill, settled in Marshall County, where he reared a family of eight children.  He was a  Whig and acted as magistrate for many years.  After the mother’s death, in 1828, he wedded Mrs. Sarah How, and died in 1860.  Our subject was born in Bedford County, Tenn., November 2, 1826, and inherits Scotch-Irish blood from his father.  He received the education and rearing of the average farmer’s boy, and at the age of nineteen began to battle his own way in the world by farming and trading.  He owns 223 acres of land and is quite a successful farmer.  In 1853 he married Florella J. Ewing, who was born May 2, 1835.  They are members of the Presbyterian Church.  During the war he served some time in Company H, Seventeenth Tennessee Infantry, although his health was very poor.  Previous to the war he was a Whig, but is now a Democrat.  He has lived within the limits of Marshall County all his life, and he and wife have passed thirty-three years of happy wedlock, and are surrounded by many warm friends and relatives.
 

SAMUEL T. HARDISON, M. D., one of the leading practitioners of Lewisburg, was born in Maury County, Tenn., February 13, 1841.  He was reared on a farm and education in country schools.  At the age of nineteen he began the study of medicine under his father and in 1860 he entered the Reform Medical College, at Macon, Ga., where he took one course and then, in 1861 enlisted in Company G, Twenty-fourth Tennessee Infantry Confederate States Army.  Early in 1862 he was promoted to a position in the medical department of the army, serving in all four years.  In 1865 Dr. Hardison began the practice of medicine at Lewisburg and has ever since continued in that profession, graduation in 1877 from the medical department of the University of Nashville.  He has also been interested in the drug business, hardware trade, house building, livery business, planing-mill, and at present is a director of the Bank of Lewisburg.  He has once been president of Marshall County Medical Society, having been a member of that society since its organization.  He has also filled the office of vice-president of the Medical Association of Tennessee.  Dr. Hardison was married in 1868 to Georgia Davidson, daughter of Dr. I. S. Davidson, of Bedford County, Tenn., the fruits of this union being seven children.  Both he and Mrs. Hardison are members of the Christian Church.  Our subject is a relative of the American Gen. Howe, of Revolutionary fame.  His parents, Dr. Joel and Jane (Long) Hardison, were natives of North Carolina; they were married in 1820, and eleven children, four of whom are living, blessed their union.  The father was a Jacksonian Democrat; he died in 1873.  The mother died in 1884.
 

HIRAM HARRIS, an old and prominent farmer, was born October 20, 1806, in North Carolina, and is a son of James and  Nancy (Thompson) Harris, both natives of North Carolina.  They ere married in this State, and in 1808 cane to Tennessee and located in Bedford County, where they spent the remainder of their days.  The father followed agricultural pursuits, and during Indian troubles he was captain of a company under Jackson.  In 1863 he died, and about seven years later his widow too passed away, both living to a ripe old age.  Our subject was educated in the old-time schools, and at the age of twenty-one bought a farm of his own and began his career as a free and independent farmer.  In 1837 he came to Marshall County, and has made this his home ever since.  In 1828 he wedded Jane P. Johnson, who was born in Davidson County, Tenn., July 3, 1807, and to them were born eleven children.  Mr. Harris is a Democrat and he and wife are members of the Methodist Protestant church.  He has a fine farm of over 200 acres.  He has been a resident of this county for nearly thirty years and is a highly respected citizen.  He and wife are enjoying good health and fifty-eight years of wedded life.
 

RICHARD T. JOHNSON. William Johnson, father of our subject, was born in Maury County, Tenn., in 1814, and was married to Eliza J. Mourton, who was born in  Bedford County in 1819. They resided for a short time in Lawrence County, and then took up their abode in Giles County, where they spent the remainder of their lives.  The father was an extensive farmer and stock raiser, and for many years filled the office of magistrate.  He was married twice, and died in 1883.  The mother's death occurred in 1867.  Richard inherits English blood from both parents.  He was born in Lawrence County, September 20 1840, and his early schooling was limited to a few terms.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Second Tennessee Confederate Infantry.  At the battle of Perryville. Ky., he received six wounds from one volley of the enemy, and although seriously wounded escaped with his life.  He was in eighteen of the bloodiest battles of the war, and after serving two years was promoted to second lieutenant.  In 1865 he wedded Laura A. Cochran, by whom he has had six children.  Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are Methodists, and has been a resident of the county twenty-one years.
 

COL. JAMES HENRY LEWIS, attorney, of Lewisburg, was born September 17,1837, in Maury County, Tenn.  His grandfather, John C. Lewis, was a native of Virginia, and moved from that State to North Carolina, where he married a daughter of Nathan Forrest, near Orange Court House, at which place Fielding Lewis, father of the subject of this sketch, was born.  Subsequently John C. Lewis, with his family, immigrated to Middle Tennessee.  Fielding Lewis married Lydia Preston, in Sumner County, Tenn.  Her father was a captain of Tennessee Volunteers, under Jackson, at New Orleans in 1815, and died soon after his return home from this campaign of disease contracted in the service.  He was a member of the Preston family of Virginia and Kentucky.  The grandmother, Lewis, was a member of the same family of which Gen. N. B. Forrest was a descendant, all at one time residents of Bedford and Marshall Counties.  Lydia Lewis died in 1860, and Fielding Lewis in 1876.  They were both members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  The husband was a farmer and mechanic, and was a relative of Gen. Meriwether Lewis, of the "Lewis and Clark Expedition" fame.  Col. J. H. Lewis worked on a farm and in the shop until attaining his majority.  His opportunities at school were limited, so that his education is almost entirely the result of his own efforts.  At the age of twenty-one he began the study of law, and in October, 1859, was admitted to the bar.  In 1861 he married Victoria J. Sims, who lost her father in the Mexican war.  Her grandfather was John O. Cook, of Maury County, of whose family she was a member, being an orphan girl.  Her other grandfather was Gen. Winn, of South Carolina.  The result of this union is four children, three of whom are living.  Both husband and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Politically he is a firm Democrat.  A short time before his marriage he enlisted in Company I, Second Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, Volunteers, as a private, and within a year was made captain of the company.  After the consolidation of the Second and Eleventh Battalions the command was known as the First Regiment Tennessee Cavalry.  He served as lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, and commanded the regiment for more than a year of the war.  In the latter part of the war he commanded a brigade, including the command at the battles of Averysboro and Bentonville, N. C.  After four years' service he returned home, located in Lewisburg and engaged in the practice of law, and served in the Legislature of the State session 1871-72 as joint representative from Marshall, Giles and Lincoln Counties.  Col. Lewis was largely instrumental in building the Duck River Valley Railroad, and served as president of the company two years prior to its lease to the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad, having been a director before, and has been connected with the road ever since its building.  He threw all of his energy and influence into the building of the road, and succeeded wherein most men would have failed.  For twenty years he has practiced his profession, with ex-Gov John C. Brown as his partner a portion of the time, and later with his brother, and now by himself.  He is now the attorney for the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad in Maury, Marshall and Lincoln Counties.  His ability as a lawyer is too well known to need comment, and he is a public-spirited citizen of the county, having done much for the schools, churches, and all other benevolent organizations of the county and State.  The firm name, Lewis Bros., was dissolved in 1885, and Capt. Thomas F. Lewis, the junior member of the firm, is now a member of the bar at Jackson, Tenn.
 

WILSON G. LOYD, clerk of the Circuit Court of Marshall County, is a son of Alexander M. and Louisa (Blackwell) Loyd.  The father was a merchant, having sold goods in Bedford County for some time.  In 1838 he removed to Texas for the purpose of surveying public lands.  He was called from this world of toil at the early age of twenty-nine. Our subject was born April 26, 1838, in Lewisburg, but, his mother having died when he was but an infant, he was left to the care of an aunt at Shelbyville till nine years of age, after which he went to live with an uncle in Louisiana.  At the age of seventeen he returned to this State and attended school three years, completing his education at Franklin College in 1859. He then went back to Louisiana and engaged as salesman in Alexandria till 1861, when he enlisted in Company B, Second Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia.  At the battle of Gettysburg he received a slight wound, and it was the only one he received during the entire four years he was in service.  In 1865 he wedded Victoria C. Meadows, and by this union became the father of eleven children, all living.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Loyd are earnest workers in the Christian Church. In politics Mr. Loyd is a Democrat.  In 1878 he was elected circuit court clerk, and has filled that position in a satisfactory manner. In 1885 he became bookkeeper of the Bank of Lewisburg.
 

JAMES M. MARTIN is a son of Henry and Maria (Tankersley) Martin.  Henry Martin was born in North Carolina in 1802, and when young came to Tennessee and located in Bedford County, where he married Miss Tankersley, born in 1808.  They were the parents of eighteen children, seven of whom are living.  The mother was a member of the Christian Church, as was also the father until the last few years of his life, when he became a Universalist.  He held the position of constable six years and that of deputy sheriff two years. During the late war he supported the Confederacy although too old to take an active part. The mother died in 1842 and two years later Mr. Martin marries Mrs. Delilah Lamb, by whom he had six children. His death occurred in I864.  James M. was born September 6, 1822, in Williamson County, and secured a practical education.  At the age of twenty he began working by the month and in 1845 married Nancy McGee, who was born February 21, 1826, in North Carolina, and died in 1856, having borne one child who died.  In 1857 Mr. Martin took for his second wife Mary Stanfield, and seven children blessed their union.  Husband and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is a stanch Democrat in politics and for some eight years has held the position of magistrate and has been constable nearly four years.  He owns 260 acres of land and is known to be a thrifty farmer and an honest man.
 

HON. J. L. ORR is the son of John and Emily (Bagley) Orr, both natives of Marshall County (then called Bedford and Lincoln Counties); the former was born in 1811 and the latter in 1813.  They were married in 1830 and were the parents of three children -two girls and one boy. The father followed the occupation of a farmer and served as colonel in the State militia. He was a Democrat in politics.  His death occurred April, 1849. The mother died January, 1886.  Our subject was born November 9. 1836, in Marshall County, and passed his early life in assisting on the farm and in attending the public school. He completed his education in Erskin College, graduating from that institution in August, 1860.  January 29, 1874, he wedded Sally S. Williams, and this union resulted in the birth of four children:  Julia, Daisy, Sallie and Robert Williams. In 1861 Mr. Orr enlisted in Company A, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, commanded by Col. Baxter Smith, and was all through the war. He surrendered at Charlotte, N. C., May 4, 1863, and returned home.  He held the rank of first lieutenant and was wounded slightly. He was in all the principal engagements of the southwestern army (except Shiloh). He served two terms in the State Legislature and is a Democrat in polities.  He is a self-made man, and at one time taught in the common schools and worked for his father-in-law ten years. He is now doing business for himself as merchant and grain dealer, stock raiser, grain farmer, and is doing a successful business.
 

ROBERT J. ORR is a son of Robert and Leah (Polk) Orr.  The father was born in Maryland, May, 1765, was married in 1790 and immigrated to Williamson County, Tenn., 1806.  In 1808 he moved to Marshall County, then known as Bedford County.  The mother was of English descent and was born in 1768 and died in 1830.  The father died January 5, 1855, and was of Irish lineage.  The subject of this sketch was born February 11, 1813, at the old homestead.  He worked on the farm until the death of his father, after which he worked for himself.  He received a rather limited education in the district schools, and September 25, 1849, he was married to Sarah E. Laws.  This union has been blessed by the birth of eight children:  David L., Leah C., John M. (deceased), Martha M., Catherine O., Alfred D., Nellie M. and Robert J.  Mr. Orr served as captain and colonel in the Tennessee militia until the Rebellion, but did not take an active part in the war.  He held the office of magistrate for eighteen years to the entire satisfaction of the people.  He is a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian Church and is a strong advocate of the cause of temperance.  Mrs. Orr is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her father advocated the cause of the South, serving in the State Legislature before and after the war.
 

HON. JAMES M. PATTERSON, M. D., a leading physician of Marshall County, is a son of James and Mary (Reed) Patterson, born in South and North Carolina in 1794 and 1791, respectively.  They were brought to this State when children, and after reaching years of maturity were married in 1818, and became the parents of nine children.  They resided in Maury County until 1833, and then came to Marshall County, where the father carried on farming and stock raising on a rather extensive plan.  The father was a Whig, and served as magistrate many years.  He died in 1875, and his wife the year previous.  James M. Patterson was born in Maury County, January 8, 1829, and secured a good early education.  At the age of twenty-four he began the study of medicine under Dr. S. J. Rice, and about two years later entered the medical department of the University of Nashville, from which he graduated in 1858, among the first in his class.  He began practicing in Maury County, and during the war was part of the time engaged as physician and surgeon.  In 1860 he married Margaret S. Hardison, who was born November 10, 1836, and ten children were born to their union.  Dr. Patterson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his wife of the Christian Church.  He was a Whig previous to the war, but has since been a Democrat.  In 1870 he represented Bedford and Marshall Counties in the State Senate, and filled that position very ably.  He came to Marshall County in 1864, where he has followed his profession, and also farmed for twenty-two years.
 

CAPT. W. M. ROBINSON, farmer, is a son of James and Maria (Mayfield) Robinson, who was born in Williamson County, Tenn., in 1805, and Bedford County, Tenn., in 1814, respectively.  They were farmers and the parents of four children.  The mother died in 1838, and the following year the father moved from Bedford County to Marshall County, and in 1844 married Mrs. Anna A. Wilhoite, whose maiden name was Warner.  The father was a man of fine intellect and was a teacher for many years.  He was a wide-awake and successful business man, and died when only forty-one years of age.  Our subject is of Irish-English descent, and was born August 30, 1831.  After receiving an academical education, he, at the age of eighteen, began to make his own way in the world by merchandising and lumbering, continuing almost continuously until the present time.  Mary C. Orr became his wife August 26, 1841, and eight children were born to their union seven of whom are now living.  In the late was he served in Company D. Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, and arose to the rank of first lieutenant, and was afterward commissioned captain of his company, being on staff duty the most of the time.  He owns a fine farm of 550 acres, a saw-mill in Alabama, and an interest in a store at Farmington.  He is a Democrat and a man who has made life a success financially.
 

NEWTON J. SMILEY, trustee of Marshall County, is a son of H.B. and Sarah (Lowry) Smiley, natives of Kentucky and South Carolina, respectively.  The father's chief occupation was farming, though in early life he worked at the carpenter's trade.  He was a soldier under Jackson in the war of 1812, and having lived to see the return of seventy-five winters was called from the trials and tribulations of earth.  The mother was in her ninety-third year when she died.  Our subject was born August 9, 1833 in the Bedford fraction of Marshall County, and was of Irish-Scotch descent.  He was educated in the country schools, and having farmed until 1861, he volunteered in Company G, Thirty-second Tennessee Infantry as a private, and was one of the brave boys who defended Fort Donelson.  After his capture and imprisonment at Indianapolis, Ind., he was exchanged at Vicksburg and re-entering the service was promoted to first lieutenant.  After nearly four of faithful service he returned home and soon after engaged in the mercantile business in which he was successful, though twice burned out.  Previous to the war, in 1857, he wedded Catherine E. Hall, by whom he had seven children, all living.  Both he and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Like his father before him he is a warm Democrat.  In 1884 he was elected to the responsible position that he is now occupying.  In connection with his office he is engaged in tilling the soil.
 

WILLIAM P. THOMAS may be mentioned as one of the prosperous farmers of Marshall County, Tenn.  His parents, T.W. and Lucy (Pierson) Thomas, were born in Virginia, and were there married, and soon after came to Tennessee and located in Rutherford County, where they lived until the death of the father, and then the mother and her five children located in Bedford County, and about 1850 came to Marshall County.  The faher was a stock trader and while on a tour in Alabama sickened and died.  William P. was born in Rutherford County, September 7, 1832, and as he was obliged to assist in supporting the family his school days were limited.  He has acquired a practical business education, however, and is well to do in worldly goods, being the owner of 400 acres of land, which he has acquired by hard work.  In 1861 he volunteered in Col. Haynes' Company of cavalry and after a short service was discharged on account of rheumatic trouble. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and is a Master Mason of Chapel Hill Lodge.  His is a bachelor.
 

JOSEPH PERCIVAL THOMPSON is a son of John and Mary (Snell) Thompson, who were born in North Carolina.  The father came to Tennessee with his parents when Nashville was a mere village.  He spent the greater share of his life in Bedford County, where he farmed and practiced medicine.  He served as surveyor and magistrate and represented his county one term in the State Legislature.  He was a Democrat up to 1835 and then became a Whig.  He died in 1857 and the mother in 1861.  Joseph P. was born in Bedford County January 16, 1812.  At the age of sixteen he began working as salesman, and in 1833 wedded Prudence Allison, by whom he had five children.  She died in 1844 and the following year he married Myra Wallis.  To them were born four children, two of whom lived to be grown.  In 1850 his second wife died and two years later Margaret E. Fowler became his third wife.  Since his first marriage Mr. Thompson has farmed.  He is conservative in politics.  Robert C. Thompson, his son, was born to his first marriage.  He was born June 30, 1836, in Bedford County, and there lived ;until sixteen years of age and then came to Marshall County.  He taught school for some time, although farming had been his chief calling through life.  In 1858 he wedded Frances S. Wilson, by whom he had three children:  Flora A., Thomas L. (who graduated with the class of 1886 from Vanderbilt University), and Minnie B.  In 1861 Robert C volunteered in Company H, Forty-first Tennessee Infantry.  He was captured at Fort Donelson and imprisoned at Camp Morton, but re-entered service after being exchanged, but was so severely wounded at Atlanta that he was disabled from further service.  He attained the rank of second lieutenant.  Since the was he has farmed.  He is a Democrat in politics, and is a man who takes deep interest in enterprises for the public wealth.
 

JAMES M. WELBORN, farmer and stock raiser, is a son of Johnson and Elatia (Knight) Welborn.  The father was born in Bedford County in 1814, and the mother in Rutherford County about 1822.  After marriage they settled in Henderson County, and after a short residence came to this county in 1849. About twenty years later he moved to Texas, where the both died, the father in 1870 and the mother in 1880.  The father was a Democrat, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He was a farmer and stock raiser and owned about 600 acres of land.  Our subject, James M. Welborn, was born Feburary 12, 1841, in Henderson County, passed his youthful days in aiding his father on the farm and in attending the common schools, where he received a good English education.  He was preparing for a course in the higher schools when the stirring events of the war broke into his plans. In 1861 he volunteered in the Confederate Army, Company F, Seventeenth Tennessee Infantry, and after eighteen montys' service was transferred to Company A, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry.  He received but on slight wound and was never captured during the four years he was in service.  In 1865 he married Rosa L. Hutton, who was born August 31, 1843, and five children blessed this union.  Mr. Welborn is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are zealous workers in the Missionary Baptist Church.  He has a fine farm of 100 acres lying on the pike.  In the line of fine stock, he keeps a fine horse of Traveler & Brooks stock, and two first class jacks.
 

JAMES W. WHITMAN, farmer, is a son of Rev. R.M. Whitman, a native of Boston, Mass., born in 1804.  When a mere boy R.M. Whitman went with his parents to Virginia, where he lived quite a number of years.  They then immigrated to Bedford County, and here he married Almedia Sanders (the subject's mother), and a native of Bedford County, born in 1815.  To them were born nine children.  After he death the father was married twice; first to Mrs. Jane Reed, who died in 1857, and then to Mrs. Ann Edwards, who still lives.  The father died in Texas in 1873.  He was an extensive farmer and stock trader, and in early life practiced medicine.  He was also a preacher of the gospel.  Our subject was born November 28, 1838, in the Moore fraction of Lincoln County.  He was reared on the farm and received a poor education, owing to the demand for his labor at home.  In 1861 he volunteered in Company K, Eighth Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, and went through four years of service without being wounded, and was only captured once, when he succeeded in making his escape in a few days.  He served twelve months as captain of Company A, Twenty-eighth Tennessee Cavalry.  After the war he went to Texas to engage in the mercantile business, where he remained ten years.  In 1874 he returned to Tennessee and engaged in Farming.  In 1877 he married Ann E. Hutton, a native of Rutherford County, born August 14, 1841.  In 1882 she died, and the following year he married Jennie P. Grigsby, of Giles County.  This union resulted in the birth of one child, Robert G.  Mr. Whitman is a stanch Democrat and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.  His present wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He has a good farm of 497 acres, and as a farmer and stock raiser has been quite successful.
 

JOHN B. WILHOITE, farmer and stock dealer, is a son of William and Anna A. (Warner) Wilhoite, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. The father was a miller, running successfully an old-style mill during his life.  He was a democrat, an attendant and his wife a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.  He died at the age of thirty.  In 1835 the mother came to this county, and soon afterward married James Robinson, of Capt. Robinson.  Her second husband died three years later.  She died in 1876.  Our subject was born December 23, 1830, in Bedford County, and did not have the best advantages for an education, but made the most of what he did have.  After leaving the common schools he completed his education in Chapel Hill Academy.  At the age of fifteen he took charge of the home farm, and a year later planned and superintended the construction of the grist and saw-mill at Fishing Ford, which he has run ever since.  He is also the constructor of the dam furnishing water to the mills.  In 1862 he volunteered in the Confederate Army in Capt. Miller's company of Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry, and after three years of faithful service returned home.  In 1869 he wedded Lizzie T. Bullock, of Williamson County, born in 1846; the fruits of this union were three children, all living-Jacob, Mary and Addie.  Mr. Wilhoite is a Democrat, a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.  Mrs. Wilhoite is a member of the Methodist Church.  Our subject has considerable of this world's goods, and has lived in Marshall County for forty-six years.