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Below is a family biography included in The History of Lawrence 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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Thomas H. Meredith, livery man of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., was born in Giles County, Tenn., May 23, 1846, and is a son of Thomas H. and Jane J. (Hodge) Meredith, both natives of Giles County, Tenn., where the father followed farming successfully until his death, in 1860, and the mother died in November, 1882. Our subject was reared in Pulaski and educated in Giles College. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K, First Regiment Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, and served until the close of the war. He then returned home and engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1875, after which he traveled, selling nursery stock until 1880. He then engaged in the livery business in Pulaski until March, 1883, when he came to Lawrenceburg and erected his present large and commodious stable and engaged in the livery business, which he has continued to the present time. He has met with good and well deserved success, having a monopoly of the trade in the town and county. He is a Democrat in politics, and is recognized as one of the enterprising and reliable business men of Lawrence County. Mr. Meredith received a slight wound in the head at Cheat Mountain, and a serious wound in the body at Missionary Ridge; he also was slightly wounded in the foot at Perryville, Ky.
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This family biography is one of 79 biographies included in The History of Lawrence County, Tennessee published in 1886. The History of Lawrence County was included within The History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman & Lewis Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman and Lewis Counties of Tennessee
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