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JOHN B. MURREY was born in Williamson County, Tenn., July 6, 1822, and spent his boyhood on his father’s farm, receiving his education in the common school. At the age of twenty-two he wedded Miss Adaline Wilson, a daughter of Thomas Wilson, a native of North Carolina, but a resident of Williamson County, Tenn. To Mr. and Mrs. Murrey were born two children: Sallie E. and Maggie J. In 1846 our subject moved to the Eleventh District in Davidson County, and was elected collector and served his county in that capacity as well as deputy sheriff until 1861. In the spring of 1872 he moved to the Sixth District in Williamson County, on the farm known as “Mount Pier,” where he now resides. His farm contains 1,173 acres. He is a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and has been since quite young. Our subject is the son of Ennis and Anna (Buchanan) Murrey, natives, respectively, of Tennessee and Virginia. The father was born in 1795, and received a common school education by his own exertions. In 1818 he was married to Miss Anna Buchanan, daughter of John Buchanan, a native of Virginia. In 1822 our subject’s father was elected collecting officer of his district. In 1833 he went to Nashville and located on a farm where North Nashville now is, and afterward moved to Franklin, Williamson Co., Tenn. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He died March, 1824.