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J. F. Shaw, proprietor of a lumber and flouring-mill, was born in Wilson County, in 1842, and is one of ten children of Solomon R. and Elizabeth Shaw. The father, of Irish extraction, was born in North Carolina in 1803, and came at two years of age to Smith County. He was a farmer and miller, and in 1863 died in Wilson County, from a wound received in Vicksburg. The mother, French in origin, was born in Smith County, in 1810, and is living with her children in Texas. Our subject began in the saw-mill business at twenty-two years of age, and two years later spent a year in Rutherford County, in the same occupation. He then returned to Wilson County, and in 1868 to Smith County, and engaged in his present business. In 1866 he married Mary, daughter of B. and J. Bufford, and born in Smith County, in 1847. Their five children are J. L., Phillip D., James (deceased), Jerry F. (deceased), and B. A. In 1862 Mr. Shaw enlisted in Company G, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, and was at Red Mound, Fort Donelson and Spring Hill, and near Sparta disabled for about a year by an arm broken in an engagement, after which he returned home and resumed lumbering. He is a Democrat, once a Good Templar, a member of A. O. U. W., and his wife is a member of the Christian Church. He has been in the saw and flouring-mill business successfully for seventeen years.