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George B. Calhoun, of Tipton County, was born in Prince Edward County, Va., July 22, 1815, and is the son of Adam and Jane (Daniel) Calhoun, both natives of Virginia. The father was of Irish descent, and the mother’s ancestors came from Scotland. The father was a first cousin to the distinguished John C. Calhoun. He was a farmer; born about 1778, and died in 1844 or 1845. The mother was born in 1790, and died in 1853. The father was always a farmer, and had the care of a widowed mother and several children, and was very successful. He was a Democrat, and an influential member of the Presbyterian Church, and was an elder in the same for over forty years. The mother was also a devout member of that church. Our subject received a good education, and commenced farming at an early age. In 1838 he moved from Virginia to Tipton County, and settled four miles south of Covington; was among the early settlers, and is now the only surviving one of the first members of Mount Carmel Church. On January 9, 1840, he married Sarah F. Bledsoe, a native of Sumner County, Tenn. He was born near Castilian Springs, March 2, 1821, and they have had eight children—five sons and three daughters; one son is dead. In the spring of 1862 Mr. Calhoun entered the Confederate service in Company C, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, but only remained in the service six months, when he returned home to fulfill a promise to his neighbors to superintend their business during their absence. Mr. Calhoun has been an active, enterprising man and has acquired a large property, owning a fine farm of 600 acres and a large cotton-gin. He has always voted with the Democratic party. For fifty years he has been a member of the Presbyterian Church, and for many years a deacon in it. His wife and six children hold worthy memberships in the same church.