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Below is a family biography included in the book, The History of Tipton County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886. 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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Dr. J. I. Sherrod of Covington, Tenn., was born in Tipton County, January, 1833, and is one of nine children, five living. The parents were Irvine R. and E. R. Sherrod. The father was born in Northhampton County, N. C., in 1803 and came to Tipton County in 1832. He was a farmer by occupation and was for many years magistrate, he was also chairman of the county court and a prominent citizen. He died December, 1865. The mother was a Miss Shelton, born 1808, in Southhampton County, Va., and died 1858. Our subject was educated at Jackson (West Tenn.) College, and graduated there in 1852; then entered the office of Dr. A. D. Clement, of Mason, Tenn. and read medicine with him; then entered the Memphis Medical College for a term, then went to the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, graduating there in the spring of 1855, and for a year after practiced medicine in Fayette County, when he moved to Covington, and is now one of the oldest physicians in the place. In the spring of 1857 he married Miss L. J., daughter of Judge A. W. and Martha C. Smith. Mrs. Sherrod is a native of Tipton County, born in 1839, and by this marriage twelve children were born, eleven of them now living: Eliza, wife of J. C. Archer; John P., W. A., B. S., Kate, Jennie, Charley, Anna, Edgar, Aubrey and Fred S. Dr. Sherrod has had a large practice and been unusually successful as a physician. He is a Democrat and a member of the Masonic lodge. Dr. and Mrs. Sherrod are members of the Episcopal Church.
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This family biography is one of 91 biographies included in the book, The History of Tipton County, Tennessee published in 1886 by Goodspeed. The History of Tipton County was included within The History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties, Tennessee
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