Notes for James Wyatt Parsons
Possible date of birth for James Wyatt Parsons = 29 September 1793.
1850 District 13, Giles Co, Tennessee 18 October 1850, p360b
#62/62 James W. Parsons 51 m miller $2,000 Va
Catharine 21 f Tn
Jasper 12 m Tn
Ann M. 7 f Tn
Phillip Wortiman 22 m labor Tn
1860 Northern Subdivision, Buford Station, Giles Co, Tennessee 22 June 1860, p25a:
#332/332 James W. Parsons 66 m farmer & mechanic $800/3,000 Va
Catharine 31 f Tn
Ann M. 17 f Tn
1870 The 13th Civil District, Buford Station PO, Giles Co, Tennessee 27 July 1870, p262a:
#53/53 Sanders James C. 53 m w, farmer & Legislator, $12,000/6,000 Tn - citizen
Catherine C. 39 f w keeping house Tn [Parsons]
Faught Nancy 19 f w, can't write Tn [who?]
Elizabeth 16 f w, can't write Tn [who?]
Parsons James W. 75 m w $1,000/200 Va - citizen
James Wyatt Parsons, son of Thomas Parsons and Elizabeth Sparks, was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia. See bio on James C. Sanders.
James Wyatt and Massie Gordon Parsons children:
1. David H. Parsons b 16 April 1823 Bedford Co, TN; d 26 Nov 1893 Giles Co, TN
2. Thomas Parsons b 1825 Bedford Co, TN; d 1857 Giles Co, TN
3. Catharine Parsons b c1829 Bedford Co, TN; d 30 Apr 1914
4. Jasper N. Parsons b 13 Dec 1835 Giles Co, TN; d 04 Oct 1877 Giles Co, TN
5. Anna Mariah Parsons b c1843 Giles Co, TN; d 18 Mar ----
[Bruce Harrison, Ancestry.com file dated 16 Jan 2001 & Jeanne Henson, Ancestry.com file 23 Jan 2004]
Goodspeeds History of Giles County, Tennessee
James C. Sanders
Hon. James C. Sanders, a native of Tennessee, was born in 1816, and is the fourth of eight children born to William and Elizabeth (Bellantfant) Sanders. The parents are native of North Carolina, and immigrated to Tennessee about 1812, locating in Williamson County, where they remained a few years, after which they permanently settled in Giles County. Here the mother died in 1872, and the father too passed from life about four years later. Our subject passed his early life on the farm and in the district schools. He lived with his father having entire control of the farm until about forty years of age. He was bitterly opposed to secession and stood firm for the Union. During the war he remained at home as quiet and peaceable as man could be under the like circumstances. In 1865 he married CATHARINE PARSONS, a native of Tennessee, born about 1830, and the daughter of JAMES W. and MASSIE (GORDON) PARSONS. Our subject began life as a poor man, had but poor advantages for an education and yet he is a good neighbor and an energetic, industrious citizen. In 1869 he was elected to the State Legislatue to represent the counties of Marshall, Lincoln and Giles. At the end of two years he returned home and confined himself to the farm until 1884, when he was again called upon to appear before the people as an independent candidate for representative, and was duly elected for the years 1885 and 1886. Mr. Sanders resides in the Twelfth District, on an excellent farm of about 500 acres, which is faily improved.
Buried: Campbellsville Cemetery, between Columbia and Pulaski, Giles Co, Tennessee
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