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Below is a family biography included in The History of Sumner 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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Col. A. R. Wynne was born in Sumner County in 1800, and is now one of the leading farmers and stock raisers of the First District. His parents were Robert and Cynthia (Harrison) Wynne. The father was a native of North Carolina, and moved with his parents to Sumner County when a boy; he married in this county, and soon after moved to Wilson County where he died in the prime of life in 1802. The mother was born in South Carolina, and died in Jackson, Miss., a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. After the death of his father our subject lived with his grandfather Wynne until sixteen years of age in Wilson County, receiving most of his education at Hickory Ridge, in same county. Mr. Wynne then returned to Sumner County, and entered a mercantile house at Cairo, where he clerked for several years, then commenced business upon his own responsibility at the same place, but sold out three years later and went to Stampson’s Mill, and engaged in the milling business. In 1834 he purchased the farm on which he now resides, and has since then made it his home, owning 432 acres of Sumner County’s most valuable land, the home tract of 290 acres being at Castalian Springs. Mr. Wynne is one of the leading farmers of Sumner County, is widely known and respected by all. Under the old military rules he was colonel of the militia having command of 1,200 men between Gallatin and Hartsville. In 1866 he was elected to represent Sumner County in the upper branch of the State Legislature. March, 1825, he married Miss Elmira, daughter of Gen. James and Susan Winchester, of Sumner County. Fourteen children were born to this marriage, three sons and three daughters living: Joseph G., Andrew J. of Alabama, Winchester, Louisa, Susan and Mary M. Mrs. Wynne was born in Sumner County in 1804, and died in 1882, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Wynne has been a life-long Democrat; his first presidential vote was cast for Gen. Jackson in 1828. He was a great admirer of Jackson, Polk and Johnson. He is an influential and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and has been postmaster at Castalian Springs for forty-seven years.
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This family biography is one of 115 biographies included in The History of Sumner County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Sumner 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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