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Below is a family biography included in The History of Gibson County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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Dr. J. H. Burrow, a leading physician of Gibson County, Tenn., and native of the same, was born December 4, 1833, and his boyhood days were spent on a farm. His educational advantages were good, but, owing to ill health, was compelled to abandon his studies. He became a student in the medical department of the University of Nashville, and graduated in 1862. About two years before graduating, October 4, 1860, he was united in marriage to Fannie R. Wright, who was born in Gibson County, Tenn., in 1839, and their marriage resulted in the birth of seven children: Anna E., Mattie H., Banks M., Fannie, Emma, Marvin and J. H., Jr. Mrs. Burrow is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Dr. Burrow has been a Democrat since the war, but cast his first vote with the Whig party. He has been a practicing physician for twenty-four years, exclusively, and has met with a good degree of success. He has a small farm under cultivation, and has been a resident of Gibson County all his life. He is so enamored with his profession that he follows it for the benefit of his neighbors, rather than with the view of amassing a fortune, and gives his services as freely to the poor as to the wealthy. He is a Mason.
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This family biography is one of 242 biographies included in The History of Gibson County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Gibson County was included within The History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley & Lake Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley, and Lake Counties of Tennessee
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