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James Douglas Graham, postmaster at Kenton, Tenn., was born in Carroll County, Tenn., June 5, 1844, son of Dr. J. L. H. Graham, who was born in East Tennessee, in 1818. He was married to Eliza D. Hill, a native of East Tennessee, who died in Carroll County, Tenn., in 1847, and by her became the father of four children. He died in Arkansas, in 1876. James D. Graham is the youngest of his father’s family. He assisted his parents on the farm until September, 1861, when he enlisted in Company C, Thirty-first Tennessee Infantry, Confederate States Army, and served until the close of the war. He was wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro, and was captured at Missionary Ridge, and held a prisoner of war from 1863 until May, 1865, at Rock Island, Ill. He then returned to West Tennessee, and in 1868 came to Kenton, where he has ever since resided. He is a Democrat in his political views, and in 1886 was appointed postmaster at Kenton. He belongs to the Masonic and I. O. O. F. fraternities, and in 1872 married Lizzie Rosson, who was born in Marshall County, in 1849. She died in 1874, and in 1881 Mary Love became his second wife. She was born in Seymour, Ind., in 1858, and is the mother of two children: Clara E. and Lizzie L. Both husband and wife are Methodists.