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BIOGRAPHIES OF TIPTON COUNTY, TN "T"
J. T. Talley, clerk of the circuit court of Tipton County, Tenn., was born in that county June 14, 1850, and is a son of Joseph and Caroline (Wesson) Talley. His father was born in Virginia, and came to Tipton County with his parent when a youth. He was a farmer and his career ended in Crawford County, Ark. The mother was born in Tipton County. Our subject received a fair education and after the death of his father, he and his brother and sister came back to Tipton where he has since resided. When about twenty-one years of age he entered the store of William Hamilton and acted as salesman for him for four years. He has been in the mercantile business for many years until he went out to make the canvass for his present office. January 9, 1878, he married Thomas F., (note; marriage records show her as Mittie T. Campbell) a native of Tipton County born January 6, 1862, and the daughter of Capt. Thomas Campbell, who was killed at the battle of Murfreesboro. By this union our subject became the father of three children: Gracie Merle, Milton Clark and Thomas Campbell. Mr. Talley is an honest, industrious man and is much esteemed by all who know him. He is a Democrat in politics and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee (1887)
Wm. L. Taylor, merchant at Mason, Tipton Co., Tenn., was born in North Carolina, May 18, 1850, and is the son of Charles H. K. Taylor, who was a very prominent citizen of North Carolina, and was a member of the North Carolina Legislature for many years. Our subject was reared on the farm and received his education in early life from the common schools, but afterward attended Randolph Macon College in Mecklenburg County, Va. He followed farming in North Carolina until 1869, and in 1871 he came to Tennessee, and located at Mason, and has since been engaged in the mercantile business, and has met with more than an ordinary degree of success, as he started in business with a very small capital; he is now carrying a large stock of goods, and has his share of the trade in town and county. February 8, 1876, he was married to Bettie S. Claiborne, daughter of Devreaux and Fannie S. Claiborne, of Tipton County; to this union were born four children: Fannie A., Eddie L., Bessie C. and Charles C. Our subject and his wife are church members in high standing. In politics Mr. Taylor is a Democrat. He belongs to the K. of H.
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee (1887)
Henry M. Turnage is a son of Henry and Nancy (Colley) Turnage, and was born in Smith County, Tenn., June 11, 1824, and is the youngest of four sons and two daughters, only I. D. and H. M. living. The grandfather, William Turnage, was one of three brothers, who came from England at an early date and landed at Charleston, S. C., where William married and raised a large family; he served in the Revolutionary war. The father, Henry Turnage, had no advantages for education; he moved to Smith County in 1812, married in 1813, and in 1825 moved to Tipton County, where he continued farming until his death in 1873. He served in the war of 1812. The mother was born in South Carolina in 1789, and died in 1868, a devout member of the Methodist Church. Our subject was raised and educated in Tipton County. October 16, 1851, he married Elizabeth, daughter of William B. and Elizabeth Tucker, and by this marriage had six children: John C., William H., Horace E. (a merchant at Memphis), Alice May (wife of H. C. Polk, of Memphis), Ella K. and Emma. Since his marriage Mr. Turnage has resided in the Sixth District, except from 1858 to 1861, when he was in Mississippi, and in Arkansas until 1864; he then returned to Tipton County, and resumed farming until 1866, when he commenced merchandising at Mt. Zion, and is now carry a well selected stock of merchandise, valued at $6,000. He owns 2, 146 acres of land in Tipton County, in several tracts, and a half interest in another tract of 450 acres, making him one of the largest land owners in the county. Mr. Turnage commence life a poor boy, and by his perseverance and fine business capacity has secured this fine estate. In early life he served five years as constable, and several years as magistrate, and in 1870 was again elected magistrate, and has since held the office. In politics he was formerly a Whig, but is now a Democrat. He is a long standing and prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and since 1853 has been grand master of Tipton lodge, for twenty years High Priest, and for eleven years has taken the commanding degree. Mr. and Mrs. Turnage are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mrs. Turnage was born in North Carolina in 1828; both of her parent were natives of that State.
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