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BIOGRAPHIES OF TIPTON COUNTY, TN "P"
James Paine, a prominent farmer of Tipton County, was born in Haywood County, Tenn., June 10, 1845, and is a son of Constantine and Ann M. (McCain) Paine, who were both natives of North Carolina. The father's ancestors came from England, and the mother was of Scotch descent. The father was born December 5, 1806, and was a brother of the distinguished Bishop Robert Paine, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The mother was born June 2, 1808. In early life they moved from North Carolina to Haywood County, Tenn., and settled five miles south of Brownsville. In 1850 they moved to Tipton County and located twenty-one miles southwest of Covington, where the mother died November 22, 1853. In June, 1857, the father married Mrs. Susie A. (Adams) Person, then moved to Memphis, where he died March 23, 1862. He was a Democrat. He sympathized with the Methodist Church, though not a member of it, but our subject's mother was a devout Methodist. James Paine received an excellent education then gave his attention to farming. Tipton County has been his home since childhood. In 1863 he went into the Confederate Army in Company G, Twelfth Tennessee Infantry. The company took its place in Gen. Cheatham's brigade; afterward in his division. Mr. Paine was in the service a year after joining, but his health was so delicate he was discharged in February, 1864; but his health improving, in November of the same year he joined Forrest's cavalry at Okoloma, Miss., and remained with Forrest until the war closed. In 1862 he came into possession of the old family homestead, and he now owns real estate in Memphis to the value of $8,000. Mr. Paine has never married. He gives his earnest support in political matters to the Democratic party. He does not belong to any church, but is a man of strict moral character and inclines to the Methodist Church.
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Robert E. Palmer, of Tipton County, Tenn., was born in Fayette County, December 27, 1852, and is a son of David E. and Annie E. (Tucker) Palmer, who were both natives of Virginia. The father was born December 27, about 1825, and the mother in 1828. They married in 1851, and are now living at Kerrville, Shelby Co., Tenn. Before his marriage the father was engaged in the mercantile business at Somerville; since then he has been farming. He is a sound Democrat, and both parents are members of the Methodist Church. Robert E. Palmer was the oldest of five children, and had fined educational advantages. In 1871 he entered the Randolph and Macon College, of Virginia, and spent two years there, and was a classmate of Prof. William Baskerville, of the Vanderbilt University. As soon as Mr. Palmer left college he commenced farming. December 19, 1877, he married Miss Mary E. West, who was born in Holmes County, Miss., November 23, 1856. Two sons and four daughter have been born to them. One son is dead. In 1880 Mr. Palmer purchased the farm where he now resides and for three years, in connection with his farming, he had a first-class country store. He began with limited means, but with energy and business capacity has placed himself in comfortable circumstances, and now owns 230 acres in Tipton County, in two tracts, and 250 acres in Shelby County. Mr. Palmer has always been a Democrat, and with his wife belongs to the Methodist Church. He is of a liberal, genial disposition, and has a great many warm friends. He possesses many excellent traits of character.
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Romulus Payne, farmer and citizen of Covington, and son of Bunyan and Nancy M. (Wright) Payne, was born in Tipton County, Tenn., in 1843. The father was of French-Irish lineage, and was born in Alabama in 1800. He was married three times, his third wife being the mother of our subject. To her he was married about 1841. He came to Tipton Co. about 1833, and settled in what is now Dist. No. 7, where he engaged in farming. He died about 1878. He was a man of considerable means, being one of the most extensive land holders in the county. The mother of our subject was born in 1822, and died December, 1883. She was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. Our subject was educated in the common schools of Tipton County, and at the age of seventeen enlisted in the Confederate Army in Company C, Ninth Tennessee Infantry, and was engaged in the following important battles: Shiloh, Perrysville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Nashville, and a number of sharp skirmishes. At the end of the four years he returned home, and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1869 he went to Arkansas, where he continued the mercantile business till 1885. He then returned to his native county, and purchased property near Covington, and has since been engaged in farming. September 26, 1872, he married Kate S. Beaver, a native of Arkansas, born in 1856, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. To our subject and wife were born these children: Romulus G., Bunyan, Myrtle B., Mabel May, Rachel and Beaver B. In politics Mr. Payne is an ardent Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for H. Seymour.
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W. G. Payne, merchant, of Covington, Tenn., was born in Sumner County, of that State, November 11, 1844, son of E. L. and S. B. Payne. The former was a Virginian by birth, born in 1814. He moved to Sumner County about 1824, and remained there until his career ended, July 25, 1872. He was a farmer and stock raiser by occupation, and for some time was engaged in merchandising. The mother's maiden name was McAllister. She was born in Smith County, Tenn., about 1825, and died February, 1863. Our subject had good educational advantages in youth, and attended Enon College, also the Rural Academy, in Sumner County. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate Army -- Company K, Second Tennessee Infantry, under Col. W. B. Bate, ex-governor of the State. He remained until the close of the war, taking part in many of the hardest-fought battles without receiving any serious wounds, and without being captured. He was a brave soldier and rendered valuable service in the Confederate Army. In 1867 Mr. Payne came to Covington and entered a store as salesman, where he remained sometime, after which he traveled a while for a wholesale house at Louisville. In 1874 he began merchandising at Covington, a business he has followed most of the time since. He is a good business manager, and one of the prominent merchants of Covington. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the I. O. O. F. September, 1885, he married Ella Utley, a native of Tennessee, born in 1859, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Her mother's maiden name was Bransford, and her father was Methodist Episcopal preacher and resided in Nashville.
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Jesse W. Peeler, a farmer, of the Twelfth District, engaged also in cotton-ginning, is a son of Jacob W. and Mary C. (Pugh) Peeler, and was born in Tippah County, Miss., in 1852, being one of eleven children, eight living. The father was of Dutch extraction, born in Hickman County, Tenn., in 1818. He went to Mississippi when a young man, married there, and lived in that State until 1859, when he came to Tipton County and settled in the Twelfth District, where he died in 1877. He was a successful farmer. Mrs. Peeler was born in North Carolina January 1, 1823, and died in 1881. They were both members of the Old School Baptist Church. Our subject was raised and educated in Tipton County. January 31, 1877, he married Louise J., daughter of Alfred McGuire. She was born in Tipton County in 1858, and died in 1882. They had two children: Leslie W. and James Alfred. July, 1884, he married Maggie, daughter of Robert and Catharine Ervine, and they have one child -- Eddie Porter. Mr. Peeler has been living on his present farm since his first marriage; it has over 100 acres in it, and the land is rich and well cultivated. He owns fifty-six acres in another tract. Although still a young man, Mr. Peeler ranks with the leading farmers of his district. His farm, when he bought it, was covered with a dense growth of timber, and he has cleared it, and has well cultivated, productive fields in place of it. In politics he is a conservative Democrat; his first presidential vote was for S. J. Tilden. Mrs. Peeler was born in Tipton County in 1868, and they are both highly esteemed for their many excellent qualities.
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Thomas A. Pinner, a resident of the Fifth District, is engaged in cotton-ginning and farming, is a son of S. H. and M. E. (Yount) Pinner, and was born in Arkansas in 1853. Of a family of eight children, seven are living. The father was of Irish ancestry, born in Augusta, Ga., in 1818; was raised and educated in that State, and came to Tipton County in 1844. January, 1848, he married and in 1850 went to Arkansas and remained six years; then returned to Tipton County, locating in the Fifth District, and farmed there until his death, March 30, 1882. He served in the war against the Seminole Indians in 1836 and 1837, and was in the civil war two years, enlisting under Capt. Browder in 1861. The mother was born in Giles County in 1823, and is still living with our subject. Both parents were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Thomas Pinner was chiefly educated at Crofton. April 18, 1875, he married Mary J., daughter of Stephen and Rebecca Terry, of Tipton County, and they have had six children: Mary Alice, William Alex., Claudius, Augustus, Sidney Harris, Benjamin Franklin, and Maggie Lee, born February 24, 1878, and died September 18, of same year. Since his marriage Mr. Pinner has been a resident of his present farm in the Fifth District, except in 1876, when he was in Arkansas. His farm is three and a half miles southeast of Randolph. He owns 700 acres of good land, and is extensively engaged in cotton-ginning. He has recently formed a partnership with his brother, G. F. Pinner, in the home farm and stock. In 1883 and 1884 he studied medicine under Dr. Shelton, of the Fifth District, but his other duties have prevented him from practicing. Politically, Mr. Pinner is a Democrat, his first vote being S. J. Tilden. Mr. and Mrs. Pinner are active members of the Missionary Baptist Church, he being a deacon in it, and also president of the Y. M. C. A., at Poplar Grove Church. He was twice married, first in 1845, to Miss Margaret Forbes, who died about 1846; they had one child that died. Mr. Pinner has by good management proved a successful business man; is well informed, upright in his dealings, and of a genial disposition.
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Francis G. Pettus, of the firm of Pettus & Drewry, of Mason, Tipton Co., Tenn., was born in North Carolina, April 9, 1856, and is the son of Dr. L. C. and Sallie J. (Speed) Pettus, natives of North Carolina. Our subject received a common school education and was reared on the farm, principally in Mississippi. He devoted his time principally to agricultural pursuits until 1880, when he moved to Mason and turned his attention to mercantile pursuits. In 1885 he formed a partnership with Robert A. Drewry and engaged in his present business. He has generally been successful in all his undertakings and has made all he has by his industry and good management. February 26, 1879, he was married to Alice Somerville, daughter of Thomas and Mary A. Somerville of Tipton County. To this union have been born three children: Thomas S., Mary J., and one infant not yet named. In his political views he is a Democrat.
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Christopher C. Poindexter, judge of the Tipton County Court, who resides at Mason, in Tipton County, was born in Fayette County, Tenn., May 4, 1846, and is the son of Christopher C. and Elizabeth H. (Seymour) Poindexter, natives of Virginia. Our subject was reared on the farm and received his education principally at Somerville, Tenn. In 1862 he went into the Confederate service in the Seventh Tennessee Regiment as a private, and served until the close of the war, when he returned home and engaged in agricultural pursuits and remained on the farm until 1873, when he moved to Mason, in Tipton County, and turned his attention to mercantile pursuits and was thus engaged at that place until 1884. He was elected mayor of Mason and served one term, and was re-elected to the office in 1886. He was then elected judge of the Tipton County Court, and is still holding the office. He has 780 acres of valuable land in Fayette County, well improved and a part of the same in a high state of cultivation. May 4, 1871, he was married to Annie Harris, daughter of Howell W. and Sarah E. Harris, of Fayette County. The subject's wife died May 3, 1873, and he was again married in November, 1873, to Ella Shelton, daughter of E. O. and Martha Shelton, of Tipton County. To this union was born one daughter, Blanch. The subject's wife died November, 1875, and October 3, 1876, he was again married, to Lula E. Tucker, daughter of James and Laura A. Tucker, of Fayette County. To this union were born four children -- one daughter and three sons -- namely: Leura, Gordon, Duke and Millard. Our subject and lady are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is politically a Democrat and a prominent member of the K. and H.
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