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W. B. Cundall, one of the best known citizens and farmers of the Twelfth District, was born in Walpole County, Mass., in 1815. His parents were Edward T. and Patience (Bailey) Cundall. The father was of English descent, born in Rhode Island about 1798, a son of Abner Cundall, one of the famous Rhode Island Quakers. Edward T. was raised and married in his native State; afterward moved to Massachusetts, and about 1817 went to Washington County, Penn., where he died in 1866. He was a woolen manufacturer the greater portion of his life, but was a farmer a few years previous to his demise. His wife was also a native of Rhode Island. She died about 1880 at the age of eighty-four. Their family consisted of three sons and four daughters, four of whom are living. Both were members of the Old School Scotch Presbyterian Church. The subject of our sketch was educated in the common schools. March 5, 1839, he was married to Miss Emma C, daughter of John and Nancy Morgan, of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Cundall was born May 2, 1817, in Washington County, Penn., and died September 8, 1882. To their union nine children were born, of whom two sons and four daughters are living: Nancy (wife of Jones Racky, of North Nashville), John M., Harriet L. (wife of Augustus McEachern), Isaac B. (of Nashville), Anna M., and Clara S. (wife of D. W. McEachern). For several years in early life Mr. Cundall was a clothier, but farming and milling has been his chief occupation. He was coroner of Washington County, Penn., for three years. In 1870 he moved to Tennessee and located near where he now resides. In 1883 he settled on the farm. It contains 250 acres of land under good cultivation and well improved. He also owns a flouring and saw-mill at Flat Rock. He was school commissioner of the Twelfth District of Smith County from 1873 until 1885. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, as was also his wife. For more than forty years he has been connected with the Masonic fraternity, and has always affiliated with the Democratic party, casting his first presidential vote for M. Van Buren, in 1840. He began life with nothing, but by industry and enterprise has accumulated sufficient to make him very comfortable. He is a man of fine business capacity, charitable and much esteemed.