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Col. John U. Green, a prominent citizen of Tipton County, was born in Madison County, Ala., May 7, 1829, and is a son of James W. and Elizabeth (Bass) Green, both natives of North Carolina. The father was born August 22, 1790. In early life he moved to Madison County, Ala., and in 1829 to Tipton County, Tenn., and lived at Covington a short time, then went to Texas, and lived for eighteen years. A few weeks before he died he returned to Tipton County, and died at the home of his brother in Covington, in 1847. The mother was born July 1, 1804. She moved with her parents to Alabama when young, was married in that State, May 20, 1819, and died in Covington in 1829. Our subject was the youngest of six children; he had fine educational advantages. In 1846 he entered Centre College, at Danville, Ky., and received his diploma there in June, 1848. After graduating he began the study of medicine under his uncle, who was a physician. In 1850 his uncle purchased a farm, and he superintended it for four years. Col. Green has been married twice; the first time, October 7, 1853, to Mary J. Sanford, who was born in Tipton County, August 9, 1835, and died May 24, 1862; two sons and three daughters were born to this marriage. March 30, 1865, he was married to Sarah A. Green, born January 5. 1831, and died May 15, 1871; three children were born to this marriage, only one son living. In 1861, Col. Green entered the Confederate Army in Company C, Seventh Tennessee Calvary, as third lieutenant, and was soon made captain, but in the reorganization of the regiment he was defeated for captain; he then returned home and raised another company, and went immediately into service. At first his company was connected with Richardson’s partisan rangers, but afterward consolidated with Bennett’s batallion and made the Twelfth Tennessee Calvary, and he was made lieutenant-colonel. For gallantry at the battle of Wyatt’s Ford, across the Tallahatchee River, he was again promoted and made colonel of the regiment, which finally joined Forrest, and remained with him until the close of the war; they surrendered at Greenville, Ala. Col. Green then returned home and resumed farming. He is now an enthusiastic Democrat, and a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church. He has been very successful and has a host of friends.