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Below is a family biography included in The History of Fayette County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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A. J. Ivy, a citizen and ex-merchant, of Hickory Withe, Fayette County, was born September 6, 1837, in Halifax County, N. C., and has one brother and three sisters living. The parents were both natives of North Carolina; the father was born in Halifax County, and the mother in Franklin County; they married in Halifax County, and farmed in Franklin County until the year of our subject’s birth when they moved to Fayette County, Tenn., locating near Hickory Withe, where they farmed until the father’s death in June, 1854. The mother died in February, 1879. In 1861 our subject enlisted in the Confederate Army, in the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry. He was soon promoted to orderly sergeant and served until the war closed. He was in the Georgia campaign, and in the battles of Belmont, Corinth, Nashville and Franklin and many others. After the war he returned home and resumed farming until 1873, when he commenced merchandising at Hickory Withe holding an interest in a stock of goods with A. Weber, successor to Weber & Wilson. In 1885 he sold his interest to K. H. Bone and retired. January, 1867, he married Nancy J. Thompson, and three children have been born: Pearla T., Eliza L. and Charles P. Their mother died June 29, 1877. Mr. Ivy owns two tracts of land, in one 101 acres, and in the other 142 acres. He is a Cumberland Presbyterian and an F. & A. M., and his support is always to the Democratic party.

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This family biography is one of 77 biographies included in The History of Fayette County, Tennessee published in 1887 by Goodspeed.  The History of Fayette County was included within The History of Fayette and Hardeman Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Fayette and Hardeman Counties, Tennessee

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