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Below is a family biography included in The History of Trousdale 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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J. H. Neely, farmer and freight agent at Hartsville, was born in Sumner, now Trousdale County in 1854, and is one of six children of Henry M. and Lucy A. (Paisley) Neely. The father, of Irish origin, was born in Sumner County in 1820, and was a dentist, but in his old age retired to farming and trading and was a universally successful man. He was a Jackson Democrat in politics and died in 1878. His wife was born in Logan County in 1829 and died in Sumner County in 1863. Educated in Hartsville Academy, our subject began for himself when nineteen years of age as freight agent in his present position, of the firm of Neely & Lowe. At present Dictator of K. of H. Lodge at Hartsville, he has held every office in the organization there. He votes the straight Democratic ticket, first voting for Tilden. Their landing is a shipping point for over ten surrounding counties, shipping in 1886 over 1,000,000 feet of lumber and about 1,000 hogsheads of tobacco. Mr. Neely owns about 235 acres improved, and three-fifths of the Hart Ferry tract on which he lives, about 173 acres, all on the Cumberland River.
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This family biography is one of 7 biographies included in The History of Trousdale County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Trousdale 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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