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BIOGRAPHIES OF TIPTON COUNTY, TN "C"
George B. Calhoun, of Tipton County, was born in Prince Edward County, Va., July 22, 1815, and is the son of Adam and Jane (Daniel) Calhoun, both natives of Virginia. The father was of Irish descent, and the mother's ancestors came from Scotland. The father was a first cousin to the distinguished John C. Calhoun. He was a farmer; born about 1778, and died in 1844 or 1845. The mother was born in 1790, and died in 1853. The father was always a farmer, and had the care of a widowed mother and several children, and was very successful. He was a Democrat, and an influential member of the Presbyterian Church, and was and elder in the same for over forty years. The mother was also a devout member of that church. Our subject received a good education, and commenced farming at an early age. In 1838 he moved from Virginia to Tipton County, and settled four miles south of Covington; was among the early settlers, and is now the only surviving one of the first members of Mount Carmel Church. On January 9, 1840, he married Sarah F. Bledsoe, a native of Sumner County, Tenn. He was born near Castilian Springs, March 2, 1821, and they have had eight children -- five sons and three daughters; one son is dead. In the spring of 1862 Mr. Calhoun entered the Confederate service in Company C, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, but only remained in the service six months, when he returned home to fulfill a promise to his neighbors to superintend their business during their absence. Mr. Calhoun has been an active, enterprising man and has acquired a large property, owning a fine farm of 600 acres and a large cotton-gin. He has always voted with the Democratic party. For fifty years he has been a member of the Presbyterian Church, and for many years a deacon in it. His wife and six children hold worthy memberships in the same church.
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee (1887)
Mrs. M. D. Campbell, a resident of of Covington, Tenn., was born at Evansville, Ind., and was the daughter of T. J. and Rachel (Robinson) Duncan. The father was of Scotch origin, born and reared in Georgia, his birth occurring in 1805. He resided a short time in Alabama, and at the age of sixteen moved to Indiana and spent the rest of his life. He was a farmer, and died May 16, 1849. The mother was born near Knoxville, Tenn., in 1808, and died October 25, 1846. From 1862 to 1865 Mrs. Campbell was in the employ of the medical purveyor's department, at Richmond, Va., and while there was well acquainted with many of the Confederate Government officials. November 6, 1873, she married Thomas J. McGuire. He was born in Mayo County, Ireland, April 23, 1827, and came to America when four years old. He lived at Philadelphia until 1856; then located at Cincinnati. He served in the Federal Army four years; then moved to Memphis in 1866, and was inspector of the gas company until 1876, when he was appointed to a place on the police force. He died of yellow fever September 10, 1879. April 20, 1880, our subject married John H. Campbell, who is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, born February 22, 1848. In 1874 Mr. Campbell located at Memphis and served for two years as deputy sheriff, and for a time was on the police force. In 1885, they moved to Covington, where he is engaged in the saloon business, and Mrs. Campbell is keeping a hotel, making a most kind and attentive hostess.
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee (1887)
J. C. Culbreath, one of the leading farmers of the Thirteenth District, is a son of John and Mary (Farar) Culbreath, and was born in Virginia in 1833, being one of eight children, six living. The father is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Virginia in 1805; was raised in that State, and married in 1830; came to Tipton County in 1834 and farmed in the Thirteenth District, of which he is still a resident. The mother was born in Virginia in 1808, and died in 1856. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Our subject was educated in Tipton County and began life as an overseer, and after working at this two years went to Arkansas in the same capacity, continuing for six years. He entered the Confederate Army, in Company B, First Arkansas Cavalry, where he served un 1863; was then transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, in the infantry under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and in the retreat from Atlanta lost his left arm, and immediately returned to Tipton County; was twice wounded in the infantry service. April, 1868, he married Sarah J., daughter of E. R. and Josephine Cockrill. They have four children; Farar, Mamie J., John E. and Charley G. After his marriage he settled where he now lives, five miles southeast of Covington, on a farm of 500 acres, and also owns 100 acres more in the same district and a half interest in another tract of 200 acres. Mr. Culbreath is a man of sound judgment and fine business capacity; is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for James Buchanan in 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Culbreath belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mrs. Culbreath was born in Tipton County in 1839. Her parents were natives of Middle Tennessee.
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