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Below is a family biography included in the book, The History of Haywood County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886. 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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Dr. Thomas R. Meux, a prominent physician and farmer of the Third District, was born near Stanton, August, 1838, and is the son of John O. and A. P. (Tuggle) Meux; was one of eight children, three sons and one daughter living. The father was of French ancestry, born in Virginia in 1809. His grandfather, Richard Meux, was also a native of Virginia, and afterward moved to Huntsville, Ala., where he died. John O. Meux was raised and educated in Alabama, and married in 1832. About 1830 he moved to Haywood County, locating near Brownsville. In 1837 he moved to Stanton, where he remained until his death, April, 1848. Mrs. Meux was born in Prince Edward County, Va., in 1810, and died in February, 1885. Dr. Thomas Meux was educated at the University of Virginia. In 1859 he began the study of medicine under Drs. Morris, Bolling and Darby, of Philadelphia; they were private instructors in the University of Pennsylvania; he graduated March 10, 1860, and commenced practicing at Stanton, but soon after moved to Covington, Tipton Co., Tenn. May, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Ninth Tennessee Infantry (Confederate Army), and served twelve months, when he was appointed assistant surgeon in the Fourth Tennessee Regiment, and in the spring of 1865 the brigade was consolidated; he still held the position, and was paroled at Jonesboro, N. C., May, 1865. Soon after this he located near Brownsville, but in 1871 moved to Brownsville, remaining until 1876, when he returned to the farm, moving to his present farm in 1879. Dr. Meux has made a fine reputation as a physician, and has had an extensive practice; he has also been successful financially, owning 1,260 acres of land where he resides, and a farm near Brownsville, besides real estate in Brownsville. In 1874 he married Miss Mary E., daughter of John C. and Martha R. (Close) Davis, of Brownsville. Mrs. Meux was born in Haywood County in 1855, and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Dr. Meux is a steward in the same church, and both are very popular.
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This family biography is one of 82 biographies included in the book, The History of Haywood County, Tennessee published in 1886 by Goodspeed. The History of Haywood County was included within The History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties, Tennessee
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