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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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John T. Watkins was born in Fayette County in February, 1853, and is the only one living of a family of two sons and a daughter, born to Benjamin and Sallie (Winfrey) Watkins. The father was a Virginian; he married in Fayette County and engaged in agricultural pursuits until a short time before his death when he sold his property in Fayette County and moved to Arkansas, where he died in 1861, the mother having died in our subject’s infancy. John T. Watkins accompanied his father to Arkansas and after his death made his home with a relative in Texas until 1870, when he returned to Fayette County and located on his present farm of 675 acres, six miles northwest of Somerville. In 1880 Mr. Watkins married Sallie Salmon, a native of Fayette County, and two daughters have been born to their marriage, both living: Ethel and Fannie Kent. Mr. Watkins is one of the energetic, progressive citizens of the county; he owns a nice estate, is liberal in disposition and honest in all things, and a man of good social position.
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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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