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T. A. JEAN, farmer and mechanic, is a native of Lincoln County, Tenn., born in 1836, and is one of eleven children of John and Ann (Shaw) Jean. The father was of Irish lineage, born in North Carolina in 1797, a merchant and farmer by occupation. He came to Tennessee in 1815, and two years later married. He died in 1889, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. He was twice married, his second wife being Patsey Taylor. The mother was born in 1801, in North Carolina, and died in 1845. At the age of ten years our subject became the architect of his own fortunes, and for about eight years was a farm laborer, and for his first year’s labor received $3 per month for his services. January 27, 1856, he married Martha E. Rutledge, who was born in 1829, in Lincoln County. The following are their children: William McHenry, John Alex, Elizabeth A., Thomas M., Mary C., Martha L. and George W. In 1882 Mr. Jean purchased 141 acres of land near Fayetteville, on which he located and has since resided. He is very skillful with the use of tools, and does his own blacksmithing and repairing in general. He is a Democrat in politics, and his first presidential vote was cast for Breckinridge, in 1860. He served in the late war in Forrest’s escort, and was in many severe skirmishes. His principal duty was scouting, and during his entire service he was neither wounded nor captured. He returned home in 1865, after an absence of three years. He and Mrs. Jean are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.