My Genealogy Hound

T. K. True is a son of David H. and Ellen (Glasscock) True, and was born in Maury County, Tenn., June 16, 1839. The father was a Virginian and came to Tennessee when quite young with his father, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. David H. was a farmer and followed merchandising and stock trading for many years. He died in 1871, and his wife five years later. Our subject became the architect of his own fortunes at the age of twenty-one, and followed farming up to the breaking out of the late civil war, when he enlisted as a private in Company K, Forty-eighth Tennessee Regiment, and acted as adjutant the greater part of the war, yet held no commission. He participated in many hard-fought engagements, and returned home May 19, 1865, and associated himself with Thomas H. Payne (present State superintendent of schools) and opened a high school at West Point, Tenn. Ten months later he was licensed to preach and was an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South for several years. He was recently employed by the I. O. O. F. Grand Lodge as State lecturer, and visited various portions of the State in behalf of that organization, doing very effective work. Since 1872 he has resided on his farm of 110 acres on Factory Creek. Mr. True is a Democrat and Prohibitionist.