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James H. Bringle, a citizen of the Twelfth District, was born in Tipton County in 1841, and is one of twelve children, two sons and three daughters living, all in Tipton County. The parents were Peter and Nancy (Verble) Bringle. The father was of Dutch extraction; was born in Davidson County, N. C., in 1794. He was first married when about twenty-four years old, and had one daughter. After his wife died he married, in 1822, Nancy Verble, who was born in Davidson County, N. C., in 1804, and died in 1876. He moved to Hardeman County in 1825, and in 1826 to Tipton County, being one of the first settlers when the county was still a wilderness. His wife and himself were members of the Missionary Baptist Church. He was a farmer, and died in 1874. Our subject was raised and educated in Tipton County. When the war commenced he enlisted in the Confederate Army, in Company I, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, but in three months returned home on account of ill health; soon after joined Company G, Fifty-first Tennessee Infantry, and remained for two years; then rejoined his original command in the cavalry, and served until December, 1864, when he returned home after three years’ hard fighting and suffering, and resumed farming. November, 1868, he married Nancy J. White, daughter of William H. and Robert White, and they had four children, two living: William Floyd and Emmet W. Mrs. Bringle died August 19, 1880, and January 27, 1881, he married Eliza A., daughter of Capt. J. A. and Susan Ann McFerrin; they have one child, Nannie Sue. Since his first marriage Mr. Bringle has resided on his present farm of 290 acres of the best land in Tipton County, six miles northwest of Covington. Mr. Bringle is a self-made man, and has made his property by his own industry. In 1876 he was elected magistrate, and held the office two years, when he resigned. He is a Democrat, and an active member of the Old School Presbyterian Church, being an elder in it. His first wife belonged to that church, but his present wife is a Methodist. She was born in Cannon County, Tenn., in 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Bringle are greatly esteemed in their community.