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Below is a family biography included in The History of Obion County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. 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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Gus M. Herring is a Montgomery County Tennessean, born in February, 1845. His parents, James and Mourning Herring, were Tennesseans, the father being born in Sumner County and the mother in Montgomery County. They became the parents of ten children, four of whom survive. The father always followed the occupation of farming, and died in 1880. His wife died four years later. At the breaking out of the war, Gus M., their son, enlisted in the Forty-seventh Tennessee Infantry, which was afterward consolidated with another regiment, and known as the Third Tennessee, remaining with the same until the close of the war. In October, 1879, he married M. E. Cowgill, who has borne him four children. The same year of his marriage he came to his present home, where he owns 200 acres of land. Besides this he owns 350 acres of land northwest of Union City.
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This family biography is one of 179 biographies included in The History of Obion County, Tennessee published in 1887 by Goodspeed. The History of Obion County was included within The History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley & Lake Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley, and Lake Counties of Tennessee
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