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H. G. LeFils, proprietor of the Brackin House, Union City, Tenn., was born in southeast Arkansas, April 4, 1852, son of Armand and Sarah A. (Carmichael) LeFils, and is of French-Irish descent. The father was born in McIntosh County, Ga., in 1816, and died in Hamburg, Ark., in 1868. His father, Armand LeFils, was born in Savannah, Ga., in 1789, and died at Darien, Ga., in 1870. He was a prominent man of his day, being a member of the Georgia Legislature, and held many positions of trust. Our subject’s mother was born in Fairfield, Pickens Co., Ala., in 1835. Our subject is the eldest of three surviving members of a family of eight children. He was educated in Arkansas and at the Covington schools in Tipton County, Tenn. In 1870 he went to Paris, Tenn., and there began learning the printing business in the office of the Weekly Intelligencer. In 1875 he was elected city marshall of Paris and held the office for five years. He then began keeping hotel, continuing five years. During the years 1883-84 and a portion of 1885 he was mayor of Paris. In January, 1886, he came to Union City and took charge of the Brackin House. May 6, 1880, he married Lelia Sharp, of Paris, born in 1860, daughter of S. W. Sharp, who was a leading lawyer of Humboldt, Tenn., and died there in 1875. He was born in Rutherford County in 1823, and a son of Col. Edwin Sharp, a native of North Carolina. Mrs. LeFils’ mother, Frances (Cowan) Sharp, was born in 1835 and died in 1877. Our subject and wife have two children: Nellie Porter and Samuel Armand. Mr. LeFils and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is an ardent Democrat and takes much interest in the success of his party. He is a Mason, Paris Lodge, No. 108.