Lincoln County TN Archives Biographies.....Duff, J. H. C. 1838 - 
************************************************

Copyright.  All rights reserved.

http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm

************************************************



File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Kay Pacheco KPacheco@fnbnet.net September 26, 2005, 9:16 pm

Author: Goodspeed

p.886-887.



DUFF, CRAIG, BROWN



J. H. C. DUFF was born in Lincoln County January 26, 1838, and remained

with his parents until he reached his majority.  He received a fair

education in the common schools and afterward attended some time at Union

Academy, Lincoln County, where he took a thorough course in surveying.  At

the breaking out of the war he enlisted in Company G, Eighth Tennessee

Mulberry Riflemen, under Capt. William L. Moore, but was afterward

transferred to Carne's Battery.  He was in the battles of Perryville, Ky.,

and Chickamauga, and was captured at the latter place and sent to Camp

Morton, Ind., where, February, 1864, he scaled the prison walls, under the

cover of darkness, and without being seen, succeeded in making his escape.

He was afterward captured again in Giles County, and made his escape once

more.  In 1866 he went to Bethel, Lincoln County, and married Jane C.

CRAIG, but immediately returned to his father's where he remained six

years.  This union resulted in the birth of nine children, eight of whom

are living:  Bessie C., Margaret E., Myrtle, Ruby, Henry N., Alfred F.,

Thomas D. and James B. F.  In 1876 he was elected surveyor of Lincoln

County for a term of two years.  In 1885 he moved to the farm where he now

resides.  He is Independent in politics, is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and

he and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  His father,

H. C DUFF, was born in South Carolina, August 28, 1808, and in 1845

immigrated to Lincoln County, where he purchased seventy-six acres in the

Fifth District, and where he located and still resides.  He has since

increased his estate to 590 acres, but has given his son 200 acres.  In

1837 he married Eliza D. BROWN, who became the mother of our subject.

Date forwarded:   Sun, 21 Sep 1997 11:57:31 -0700 (PDT)



Additional Comments:
From Goodspeed's "History of Tennessee"

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/lincoln/bios/duff56nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/tnfiles/

File size: 2.4 Kb