Genealogy and History
Robert Evander Palmer | of Tipton County, Tenn., was born in Fayette County, December 27, 1852, and is a son of David E. and Annie E. (Tucker) Palmer, who were both natives of Virginia. The father was born December 27, about 1825, and the mother in 1828. They married in 1851, and are now living…
Parents JACOB A OWEN | farmer and citizen of the Second District, is a son of S. H. and Sarah A. (Smith) Owen, was born in the Second District of Tipton County in 1843, and is one of five children, four living. The father was of Welsh ancestry, born in Rowan County, N. C., about…
Parents Romulus “Rome” Payne Sr | farmer and citizen of Covington, and son of Bunyan and Nancy M. (Wright) Payne, was born in Tipton County, Tenn., in 1843. The father was of French-Irish lineage, and was born in Alabama in 1800. He was married three times, his third wife being the mother of our subject….
Parents Rev. James Hemphill Strong | a well known and poplar minister of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and a resident of Tipton County, is a native of Chester County, S. C., born May 14, 1827, and a son of John and Martha (Strong) Strong, who were both natives of Chester County, S. C. In…
Parents John Robinson Sloan | chancery court clerk of Tipton County, and a native of Tennessee was born in Lincoln County, in 1850, son of S. H. and M. J. (McCalla) Sloan, both natives of South Carolina, the former born in 1822, and the latter in 1826 and died in 1872. The father resided in…
Parents George B Sale | a prominent merchant and citizen of Munford, Tipton Co., Tenn., is a native of Fayette County born February 15, 1845, and is a son of Rev. Henry W. and Nancy (Owen) Sale. The father was a native of Virginia, born in 1784, and died November 20, 1845. The mother was…
Parents Benjamin J Sanford | farmer and citizen of District 13, of Tipton County, is a son of George and Caroline E. (Jefferson) Sanford, and was born in Kentucky in 1825, being the only child living of three sons and three daughters. The grandfather, Richard Sanford, was a native of Virginia and served as a…
Parents William A Yarbrough | a prominent farmer of District No. 1, of Tipton County, is a son of Anderson C. and Mary (Larimore) Yarbrough, and was born in this county in 1828, being the oldest of thirteen children, only four now living, two sons and two daughters. His grandfather, Henry Yarbrough, was a native…
Parents William Lee Taylor, merchant at Mason, Tipton Co., Tennessee, was born in North Carolina on May 18, 1850. The son of Charles H. K. Taylor, who was a very prominent citizen of North Carolina, and was a member of the North Carolina Legislature for many years. Life Our subject was reared on the farm…
ROBERT ROY HARVELL | Robert R Harvell, age 85, retired farmer, died Friday at Covington Manor Nursing Home (Covington, TN) after a short illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home with burial in Macedonia Cemetery near Rosemark. He was a member of Covington First Assembly of God. Harvell, the widower…