Societies and County Officals
The Marshall County Agricultural and
Mechanical Society was organized July 7, 1856. Its first
officers were as follows: E. A. Wilson, president; W. L.
McClelland, vice-president; A. B. Ewing, secretary; James V.
Ewing, treasurer. The board of managers were Major G. L. Allman,
John W. Hutton, Esq., Col. John R. Hill, Gen. Levi Cochran, S V.
Chrisman and Thomas McKnight. Before the war fairs were held
every year, the first one being October 30 and 31, 1856. Fairs
were also held from 1868 to 1873, and liter this the colored
people held three annual meetings under this charter. The
society owned seven and a quarter acres of land and had
constructed the necessary buildings, such as an amphitheater,
halls, stables, etc., which were all destroyed by the war.
Medical Society
The Marshall County Medical Society held
its first meeting in August, 1877. The first members were. There
are now eighteen members.
Drs. J. S. Nowlin
J. S. Howlett
T. E. Reed
S. T. Hardison
B. F. Smith
R. A. Orr
T. B. Leonard
Z. W. Neil
J. O. Nowlin
J. C. Crunk
J. W. Huddleston |
T. J. Kennedy
W. S. McLean
J. D. Johnson
J. M. Patterson
L. L. Murray
C. A. Abernathy
F. Ferguson
J. W. Percy
J. B. Neil
W. M. Allison
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C. C. Neil
A. Jones
L. C. Hill
R. C. McCordy
W. C. Ransom.
J. S. Nowlin
S. T. Hardison
J. M. Patterson
A. Jones
F. Ferguson |
Sheriffs
John R. Hill, 1836
Solomon Meadows, 1842
John Laws, 1844
W. B. Holden, 1848
Thomas F. Brooks, 1854
John B. Wilkes, 1856
W. F. Collins, 1860
A. Duncan, 1862 |
Levi Cochran, 1863
James R. Nei___, 1864
Stephen Tally, 1868
John W. Champ, 1870
Scott D. Davis, 1874
W. T. Jones. 1878
R. S. Walker, 1882
W. T. Jones, 1886 |
Trustees
John W. Record, 1836
James V. Ewing, 1838
James Brown, 1846
James Ross, 1847
Wesley A. Giles, 1850
James B. Chadwell, 1854
Samuel Davis, 1865 |
Alfred Hobson,
1870
W. G. Massey, 1872
James Y. Ewing, 1874
Samuel Orr, 1876
A. V. Stillwell. 1880
N. J. Smiley, 1884 |
Chairman
William McClure,
1836
John Hatchett, 1838
Benjamin Williams, 1839
Burgess Hardin, 1842
W. P. Davis, 1846
James V. Ewing, 1846
Burgess Hardin, 1848
James Y. Ewing, 1849
J. A. Yowell, 1855
David McGahey*
David McGahey, 1858
Samuel Davis, 1860
W. A. Houston, 1864 |
W. H. McConnell,
1866
Moses C. West, 1869
J. J. S. Gill, 1871
J. W. Calahan, 1873
J. McBride, 1876
John T. Street, 1877
James D. Cook, 1879
A. M. Davis, 1880
J. F. Brittain, 1883
W. C. McGregor 1885
W. C. McGregor**
W. J. Leonard*** |
*County judge, 1855-58, **County judge,
April, 1885, ***County judge, 1886
Clerks County Court
Martin W.
Oakley, 1836
John Elliott, 1846
Stephen Tally 1854 |
R. L. Adams, 1862
W. P. Bullock, 1874
J. McBride, 1882 |
Clerks Circuit Court
David McGahey, 1836
Thomas McKnight, 1846
William P Fisher, 1865
Thomas McKnight, 1868 |
L. B. Collins,
1870
W. G. Loyd, 1878
E. M. Miller, 1886 |
Clerks Chancery Court
Gideon B. Black,
1836
R. K. Kercheval, 1846
R. G. McClure, 1865 |
Stephen Tally,
1870
H. N. Cowden, 1872
R. L. Adams, 1876 |
Registers
John Elliott, 1836
J. J. Elliott, 1846
W. N. Cowden. 1856 |
J. N. Waters, 1862
J A. Yarbrough, 1874 |
Coroners
Joseph McCord, 1836
Joseph Cloud, 1846
P. G. W. Goodwin, 1849:
F. K Rambo, 1855
W. C. Stephenson, 1858
Levi Cochran, 1859
John Ramsey, 1864
William Calton, 1865 |
Alfred Hobson,
1869
John A. Bills, 1870
H. K. Moss, 1870
L. Cochran, 1872
H. K Moss, 1875
R. F. McCrary, 1876
John Leonard, 1878
E. F. Williams, 1885 |
Surveyors
Hugh McClelland,
1836
Samuel Elliott, 1838
W. H. McConnell. 1843
Stephen Tally, 1845
E. I. Hunter, 1852
Ephraim Hunter, 1857
H. B. Allen, 1858 |
S. Tally, 1863
H. B. Allen, 1864
J. P. Dysart, 1866
James Hendricks, 1870
Joel A. Morris 1878
James Hendricks, 1886 |
Rangers
Isaac H. Williams,
1837
G. W. Moore, 1840
J. M. Yowell, 1845
J. P. Smith, 1857
J. L. Reed, 1864
M. C. West, 1865 |
Jonathan Bills,
1865
W. D. Hawkins, 1875
L. Cunningham, 1875
H. K. Moss, 1878
J. M. McKee, 1885
H. K. Moss, 1886 |
State Senators
Wilson P. Davis,
1843
Richard Warner, 1845
Thomas Dean, 1847
Wilson P. Davis, 1849
J. J. Jones, 1853
Wilson P. Davis, 1857
J. M. Johnson. 1859
W. H. Wisener, 1865 |
J. M. Patterson,
1871
J. D. Tillman, 1873
E. A. Wilson, 1875
Jesse Aldridge, 1877
W. P. Tolley, 1879
D. S. McCullough, 1881
D. J. McCullough, 1883
C. R. Berry, 1885 |
Representatives
T. C. H. Miller,
1843
Benjamin Williams, 1847
W. F. McGregor, 1849
Thomas H. Hardin, 1851
E. A. Wilson, 1855
H. N. Cowden, 1859
A. A. Steele, 1865
A. F. Lillard, 1867 |
A. H. Steele, 1869
A. Jones, 1871
J. L. Orr, 1873
W. N. Cowden, 1877
Richard Warner, 1879
Ernest Pillow, 1881
W. P. Bullock, 1885 |
Marshall County| AHGP Tennessee
Source: History of Tennessee, Goodspeed
Publishing Company, 1886
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