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H. SULLIVAN was born February 10, 1828, in Dickson County, Tenn., and is the fifth of seven children (four boys) born to Zachariah and Emily (Goss) Sullivan, natives of Kentucky and Germany, respectively. The father was a son of Joseph Sullivan. Both grandfathers were in the Florida and Mexican wars. H. Sullivan was reared on a farm and lived with his parents till he was twenty-three years old, when his mother died. He was married about this time, and then his father lived with him the remainder of his days. He died in the spring of 1864, aged seventy-nine years. Mr. Sullivan came to Ballard County with his parents in 1841, and settled in the community in which he still lives, and where his father entered and improved sixty acres of land. Mr. Sullivan is now the owner of 390 acres of land, three miles northwest of Blandville, in good condition. He has made what he has by his own industry and perseverance; having contracted in railway construction for about three years, at which business he made some money. He was married in October, 1850, to Miss Macedonia Dennis, of Ballard County, a daughter of Abner and Martha Ann Dennis, and had born to him by this union three children: Jerry, John, and Jennie (now Richmond). His wife died in 1861, a member of the Baptist Church. In the spring of 1862, he married Mrs. Fannie Edes, daughter of Carney and Emily (Bugg) Richmond, and had born to him by this union seven children: Albert, Richmond, Emma, Edda, Jodie, Charley, and Allie. Mr. Sullivan and wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he was a member of the Grange and votes the Democratic ticket.