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WARDEN, PILCHER, ASHBY, MILLSTEAD, DUNCAN, STEELMAN, ISOM, McAFEE



John WARDEN was born in North Carolina in 1826, son of Robert and Elizabeth

(PILCHER) WARDEN.  His early education was very limited, he never having

received more than six months' schooling during his life.  At the age of

six years he was brought to Tennessee by his parents, and made his home

with them until he was twenty-one years old.  October 27, 1847, he married

Rachel ASHBY.  She was born in Lincoln County December 1, 1825, daughter of

Alex ASHBY.  They have three children:  Vina Jane (Mrs. George MILLSTEAD),

John Wilson and Travis Alex.  Mr. WARDEN resided in the Sixth District of

Lincoln County until May, 1864, when he purchased 100 acres in the Seventh

District, and there has since resided.  He lost his wife May 9, 1854, and

the following year he married Martha A. DUNCAN, daughter of Judge DUNCAN.

They have six children:  Martha Ellen, Mary Elenora, William James, Hardin

Daniel, Judge and James Ebenezer Goodloe.  Their mother died June 30, 1880,

and March 20 of the next year he married Mary C. ASHBY, a sister of his

first wife.  In 1861 Mr. WARDEN joined Company A, Forty-first Regiment

Tennessee Infantry, and was in the battles of Fort Donelson, Raymond,

Vicksburg, Jackson and Chickamauga.  He was captured at Fort Donelson, and

taken to Camp Morton, Ind., where he was retained seven months.  He

returned home in December, 1863  He is conservative in politics, and he and

wife are members of the Primitive Baptist Church.  His father was born in

North Carolina in 1790, and was married in 1830.  After living two years in

Illinois he came to Lincoln County, Tenn.  He died in 1862. The mother was

born in North Carolina in 1799, and died in 1861.  Of their eleven children

eight are living:  Hardin, Emeline (widow of John H. STEELMAN), John,

Daniel, Jane (Mrs. James ISOM), Darinda (Mrs. G W. McAFEE), James M. and

Franklin H.



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





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