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Below is a family biography included in The History of Smith 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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G. H. Glass, a well known farmer and brick-mason, was born in 1822 in Nelson County, Va. He is one of nine children born to Thomas and Sophia (Dameron) Glass. The father was born in 1783, in Halifax County, Va. In 1827 he moved to Kanawha County, W. Va., where he remained until his death in 1863. He was a shoemaker by occupation. His wife was born in 1787, and departed this life in 1822, when G. H. was born. Our subject received a good practical education in the common schools of his native county, and located in Smith County in 1840. In 1844 he was wedded to Eliza A., daughter of Moses B. and Nancy Reeves, who was a native of the county, born in 1827. In 1880 Mr. Glass was census taker of the Fourteenth District, and in 1882 he was elected by a most complimentary majority as justice of the peace, for the same district, and has given perfect satisfaction. He was one of a committee of five on the new courthouse, and superintendent of the construction of the new county asylum. He is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, in 1844; is also a Knight Templar in the Masonic order. Mr. Glass has been very prosperous, and is a judicious manager, and honorable man. He owns 135 acres of good land, highly cultivated, well fenced, and with first-class buildings on the place. There still remains on the farm a house which was erected in 1822, and was at that time considered one of the finest places in the section.
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This family biography is one of 62 biographies included in The History of Smith County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Smith County was included within The History of Sumner, Smith, Macon & Trousdale Counties of Tennessee. View the complete description here: History of Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties of Tennessee
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