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J. H. Hogue, farmer of the Sixth District of Obion County, was born in Mississippi, July 25, 1836; son of James B. and Mary L. (Harper) Hogue, who were born in South Carolina. The father came to Tennessee at a very early age, and about 1830 moved to Mississippi, where he died in 1842 or 1843. The mother is residing with her son, J. H. Hogue, who was reared on a farm. At the age of twenty-one he began farming in Arkansas, continuing about three years, when the war broke out. He joined the Confederate Army, serving in Company B, Twelfth Kentucky Regiment, and was commissary sergeant of the same. He, with his regiment, was in about seventeen engagements and was not wounded or captured. At the close of the war he returned to Arkansas and resumed farming, but since 1876 has been a resident of Tennessee. His possessions, in worldly goods, amount to about $3,000. He is scrupulously honest in his business transactions and is a worthy citizen of the county. He is a Democrat and a member of the American Reformed Presbyterian Church. January 3, 1861, he wedded Nancy E. Harper, who died August 8, 1873, having borne six children, two of whom are dead. April 13, 1878, Mr. Hogue married Jemima Moffatt, who has borne him three children, one of whom is deceased.