Isaac D. Albertson

Isaac D. Albertson

Parents: John Albertson and Ruth (Dillon) Albertson.

Grandparents: Early Albertson and Elizabeth (Coulson) Albertson.

Early Albertson came from North Carolina and settled near what is now Gunter (P. O.) in Pickett County. His son John moved from there to Morgan County, and then back to Jamestown in 1827. There were only four other families living in what is now Jamestown at that time. They were John Conatser, Jesse Wood, John M. Clemons and possibly Marcia Millsaps and her husband Hiram Millsaps.

John Albertson lived in a log house located about where Frogge's store now stands, on west side of square. Albertson had to move out to allow court to be held. He made the molds for making the brick used in building the first courthouse. I. D. Albertson attended the famous Mt. Cumberland Academy in Poplar Cove and became a teacher. He followed farming and teaching. He was elected County Trustee in 1886. He was elected Circuit Court Clerk in 1888 and served eight years.

He was married to Ollie E. Jones of Kentucky in 1861. He died in 1900.

He left a widow and four children, all married.

A. J. Albertson, a teacher, and Pen Albertson, an architect of Chattanooga, are his sons.

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