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Rev. Samuel K. Tigrett, a talented minister of the Baptist Church, was born in Gibson County, Tenn., June 29, 1848, and is the youngest of two sons born to Chesterfield and Mary (Hurley) Tigrett, of Scotch-Irish descent. His father was born in Mississippi, came to Tennessee when a young man, and married in what is now Crockett County in 1840, and was a farmer and cabinet-maker, and was a strict member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He died in Crockett County in 1850. The mother was a native of Crockett County and died in 1870. Our subject was raised on a farm and received a common-school education, and after attaining his majority he entered the ministry, and has made a most earnest and efficient laborer in his Master’s cause. He has baptized 618 persons, married 109 couples, and received into church membership over 1,000 members. Mr. Tigrett was married in Crockett County, July 19, 1877, to Miss Lizzie A. Nunn, a daughter of Dr. I. A. Nunn, who at one time represented his district in the State Senate. One son, Isaac B., was born to this marriage, September 15, 1878. Mrs. Tigrett was born in Crockett County, at Chestnut Bluff. She is a devout member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Tigrett is in politics a Democrat, and a Mason. He has now charge of four churches, with a membership of more than 700, and is faithful and conscientious in his work, generous and sympathetic in his nature. He owns 500 acres of farming land, and raises cotton and grain, but gives most of his attention to stock raising, and has a comfortable dwelling, the place being at Hall’s Station on the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad.