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PETTEY, HARRIS, NORRIS, RAGSDALE



R. PETTEY, proprietor of the leading hotel in Fayetteville, was born

January 8, 1829, in north Alabama, son of Dr. John W. and Annie (HARRIS)

PETTEY.  The father was a North Carolinian, born in Wilkes County, February

28, 1791, and a physician in his neighborhood of considerable note.  He was

also a farmer, and about 1825 he left North Carolina and immigrated to

Madison Co. Ala. where he purchased 160 acres.  Previous to his death,

which occurred September 23, 1876, he was the possessor of 360 acres.  The

mother was born January 18, 1798, in North Carolina, and reared to maturity

a family of thirteen children, seven of whom are now living.   She died

June 13, 1869.  Our subject received a limited education in the country

schools, and remained with his parents until he was about twenty-one years

of age.  In the fall of 1849 he left the parental roof and immigrated to

Lincoln County where he lived with his brother W. W. as a clerk.  In 1855

he came to Fayetteville, where he has since resided, and in 1858 he and his

brother W. W. established a dry-goods store on their own responsibility,

the firm being known as W W. and R. Pettey.  They continued in business

until the civil war, when our subject enlisted in the Confederate service

in Company G, First Tennessee Regiment, under Col. P. Turney.  He was

wounded at the battle of Seven Pines, the ball passing through his right

lung and through the entire body.  He did not recover sufficiently to

re-enter the field.  In 1867 he resumed his clerkship, working in various

kinds of merchandise establishments.  October 29, 1869, he wedded Margaret

C. NORRIS, a native of Alabama, born November 26, 1841, and the daughter of

Dr. George D. and Martha W. (RAGSDALE) NORRIS.  The result of our subject's

marriage was the birth of four children:  Gertrude, Annie C., Burton, and

Mabel.  In 1873 Mr. PETTEY and his brother W. W. established a book or

stationery store, and in the following year W. W. became proprietor of a

hotel.  In 1876 our subject sold his interest in the store and bought his

brother's interest in the hotel, and from that time to the present has been

engaged in that business.  Mr. PETTEY is a courteous and obliging

gentleman, and is quite popular among the traveling public as a first-class

hotel proprietor.  Mrs. PETTEY as a land lady is pleasant and entertaining.

 In politics Mr. PETTEY is a stanch Democrat.  He and wife are members of

the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.





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From Goodspeed's "History of Tennessee"





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