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Below is a family biography included in The History of Trousdale County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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J. W. Rankin, farmer, was born July 12, 1841, on his present farm, one of four children of John and Mary C. (Forgason) Rankin. The father, born in 1775, came to Tennessee at an early day and settled near where his son resides. He died in 1847. The mother was born in what is now Trousdale County, January 8, 1818, and died July 2, 1854. Our subject was educated at Irving College, Tenn., and October 25, 1860, married Sarah Wilson, who was born December 6, 1842, in what is now Trousdale County. Their two children are John, born February 8, 1862, and Lee Madden, born April 30, 1867. Leaving home at twenty, our subject rented the first ten years of his married life, and then bought his present farm five and one-half miles from Hartsville, on the Hartsville and La Fayette road. He is a Master Mason, and he and his wife are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Rankin has succeeded in accumulating about 450 acres of land by his own efforts.
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This family biography is one of 7 biographies included in The History of Trousdale County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Trousdale County was included within The History of Sumner, Smith, Macon & Trousdale Counties of Tennessee. View the complete description here: History of Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties of Tennessee
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