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HON. DAVID J. NOBLITT, physician and surgeon, and a son of Abraham and Sarah Ann (Razar) Noblitt, was born in Bedford County, March 16, 1836. He worked at home until he was eighteen years of age, paying $50 a year for the remainder of his time. He received his early education at the free schools, and when he first left home entered the Charity School, taking an English and Latin course there for two years. He taught two years, and in 1857 entered the medical department of the University of Nashville, where he graduated in 1860. In 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Forty-fourth Tennessee, and was appointed assistant surgeon of the regiment, in which capacity he remained till after the battle of Murfreesboro, when his health failed, and he was compelled to resign his position. November 22, 1860, he wedded Sylvania G. Boone, daughter of Samuel and Cynthia Boone, and this union resulted in the birth of two children: Leona N. and Boone E. In 1866 our subject purchased 190 acres of land at Booneville, where he located and still resides, and where he continues to practice his profession, and is now one of the leading physicians of this county. He owns 185 acres of land under a good state of cultivation and good improvements. In 1872 he was elected to represent Lincoln and Giles Counties in the lower house of the State Legislature, and re-elected in 1874. He is a Democrat and a Mason. Mrs. Noblitt is a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. Our subject’s father was born in North Carolina July 4, 1812, and was of Anglo-Polish descent. He was of noted ancestry, his great-grandfather being connected with the English Navy in the days of William Penn, and came with him to the new world to aid and assist him in his colonization. Abraham, our subject’s father, was a farmer, and died in 1845. The mother of our subject is still living, and is making her home with our subject. Her father was a cousin to Patrick Henry, of Revolutionary times.