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Aaron F. Springer, a prominent planter, and native of the county in which he resides, was born near his present residence December 3, 1836, being the fourth of eleven children of Jacob and Malinda C. (Todd) Springer, who were born in South Carolina in 1808 and 1812, respectively. The father came to Lawrence County, Tenn., when about sixteen years of age, and here married, and reared his family, and died October 5, 1869. His wife’s death occurred at the old homestead June 11, 1865. Aaron F. Springer has made farming his chief calling through life. Mary S. A. Carrell became his wife May 10, 1860, and their union was blessed in the birth of eleven children: James C., Mollie C., Robert C., Lillie S., Sallie E., Alix C., Emma B. and Alice Leslie and three who are dead. The mother of these children was born near Lawrenceburg in 1843, and is the daughter of Judge Stephen A. Carrell, who was born in Lawrence County in 1817, and served as clerk and judge of the county court. Our subject served in the Confederate Army in the Ninth Tennessee Cavalry, and was in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. He was captured at one time and held a prisoner at Rock Island, Ill., for about four months. He was paroled at Gainsville, Ala. He is an old line Democrat and a member of the F. & A. M. fraternity. He owns 500 acres of land, on which he raises the cereals and livestock. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.