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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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William Harper, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Sumner County, Tenn., September, 1843, and is one of a family of two children born to S. and S. (Easley) Harper, both natives of Virginia. The father was born in Culpeper County, in 1780, was of English descent, a farmer and stone-mason by occupation, and died in 1872. The mother was born in 1789, and died in March, 1877. Our subject was educated in the schools of Sumner County, and at the age of twenty-one began working for himself on his father’s farm. In 1863 he married Miss Minerva A. Childress, a native of Sumner County, born in 1848, and the daughter of John and Elmira Childress. This union resulted in the birth of five children: Sallie I., W. J., Ella, Jesse L. and Earl P. Mr. Harper is a Democrat, a member of the Masonic fraternity, also of the K. of H., and his wife and three daughters, Sallie, Willie and Ella, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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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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