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Green C. Ledbetter, a successful planter of Perry County, Tenn., was born April 12, 1824, and was the seventh of twelve children of Henry and Anna (Phillips) Ledbetter, and is of Irish descent. His father, a native of North Carolina, was born about 1788, and was reared and married in his native State. Within a few years after his marriage he immigrated to Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County, where he lived until 1837, when he moved to Perry County and established himself on Lick Creek, where he continued to reside until his death, May 14, 1860. The mother was born in North Carolina about 1789, and died at the old homestead August 12, 1870. Our subject received a limited education, and has made farming his chief business through life. He was married, in Perry County, to Eliza Elizabeth Terry, daughter of Jason Terry. Of their nine children eight are living: Mary A. L., Sarah E., Jane, Nancy M., Eliza, Columbus W., Sion R. and Henry. The mother of this family was born in North Carolina, and was brought by her parents to Tennessee when a small child. They afterward moved to Perry County. Our subject is a stanch Republican, with very conservative, liberal and intelligent views on the political questions of the day. Mr. Ledbetter was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and during its separation he was taken, without his consent, into the Southern wing, although he preferred remaining with the old church. He owns 1,500 acres of land, on which is valuable iron ore, and also abundant evidences of coal, with splendid timber and numerous springs of pure water, which flow the year around.