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Below is a family biography included in The History of Sumner 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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Hon. Lee Head, judge of the county court of Sumner County, and junior member of the firm of Head Bros., was born in Sumner County in 1849; son of Hon. John W. and Evaline B. (Brooks) Head. (For further particulars of parents, see sketch of Chas. R. Head.) Our subject received his education at Kentucky’s military institute, and at the Cumberland University at Lebanon, graduating from the law department in 1871. He immediately joined his brother Charles and his father in the law office in Gallatin and commenced his practice. In 1873 and 1875 he was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature and served on the judiciary committee and chairman on committee on elections. In 1878 he was elected judge of the county court of Sumner County and has been elected each succeeding year since. In 1881 Lee married Miss Nellie Gillespie, a native of Sumner County, born in 1862, and a daughter of B. G. Gillespie. To them were born two children: Graham and Charles B. Mr. Head is a member of the K. of H., the K. of P., and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Head Bros. are Democrats in politics.
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This family biography is one of 115 biographies included in The History of Sumner County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Sumner 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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