My Genealogy Hound

James M. Lumpkin is the eldest of eight children, and was born on Knob Creek April 26, 1837, son of William H. Lumpkin, who was born in North Carolina in 1811, and came to Tennessee when a young man. Here he married Eliza Smith and reared his family. He breathed his last at the old homestead when about sixty-six years of age. The mother was born September 24, 1816, and is still living. James M. received his early education in the common schools and has made farming his chief calling through life. He served in the Ninth Tennessee Cavalry under Col. Biffle, Confederate States Army, in the late war, and was in many skirmishes. He took the oath of allegiance at Columbia just before the close of the war. He has been married three times, and had three children by his first wife, Sarah M. Springer. Their names are Sarah C., James F. and William S. Mrs. Lumpkin died in 1865. His second wife, Eliza C. Belew, who died March 16, 1873, bore the following four children: Telie A., Mollie L., Anna E. and Robert Lee. Margaret L., Katie Jane, Louis N., John C. (deceased), Charles and Richard Earl are the children of his third wife, Malinda C. Kelley, who was born in Georgia January 24, 1853. Mr. Lumpkin is rather independent in politics, but leans toward the Democratic party. He owns 100 acres of good land and is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He and wife are worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.