My Genealogy Hound

John L. McBee, farmer, was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., August 12, 1848, the son of Lemuel and Mary (Love) McBee, the former a native of Grainger County, Tenn., the latter of North Carolina. The father died when our subject was but a few years old, and the mother when he was three years of age. John L. is a self-made man, and was reared in the county, becoming a practical and successful farmer. He now owns and cultivates a fine farm of 300 acres in the Holston River Valley, four miles from Strawberry Plains, known as Indian mound stock farm. There is a fine deposit of marble found there, and from an Indian mound, which he has opened there, he has taken many curious specimens of beads, pipes, shuttles, bones, etc. His land is well improved, and as a man he is quiet and unassuming, but from his orphanage he has become one of the leading and most respected citizens of Jefferson County, taking great interest in public improvements. He is a Master Mason. Lizzie MeBee became his wife May 16, 1871, and their children are Nellie, Mary, Maud and Cora. His paternal grandfather, Lemuel McBee, was a native of Tennessee, and his maternal grandfather, John B. Love, was a native of western North Carolina.