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J. A. SHORT, a prosperous farmer and stock raiser, was born April 25, 1839, and received his education in the common schools. In 1861 he obeyed his country’s call and volunteered to fight her battles. He enlisted in Company H, Twentieth Tennessee Infantry, and was a participant in several battles of note, viz.: Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Atlanta, Ga., and also numerous minor engagements. He was wounded three times during the war, and at its close returned home, and is now engaged in farming and stock raising. He and B. F. Short, his brother, own about 700 acres of land. Our subject’s parents were William H. and Juda (Atkinson) Short. The father was a native of Halifax County, Va., and in 1808 he left his native State and immigrated to Williamson County. Tenn., where he engaged in farming and stock raising until his death, which occurred July 28, 1881. The mother was a daughter of the late Elder John Atkinson, of Virginia, who was a noted preacher of his day, and a descendant of one of the first families of Virginia.