MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Rev. P. L. Atkisson
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REV. P. L. ATKISSON is a son of Pleasant and Sophronia (Holmes) Atkisson.  The
father was born in Virginia, and when young came to Tennessee, where he
married, and after a short residence in Giles County moved to Alabama, and few
years later went to West Tennessee.  He was a shoe-maker by trade, and also
farmer.  To him and wife were born two sons.  In 1835 the mother died, and
later he wedded Emily Woods, who born him one son.  He was an 1812 soldier and
Jacksonian Democrat.  Our subject was born in Mooresville, Ala., October 7,
1825, and was reared on a farm in West Tennessee.  He received an academic
education, and after studying medicine for some time took a course of lectures
at Memphis and practiced that profession a number of years.  At the age of
twenty-five he commenced his ministerial work, in which he has been engaged
ever since.  His marriage with Mary O. Ellison was solemnized in 1850, and to
them were born eight children, seven of whom are living.  Mrs. Atkisson is a
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which her husband is a
minister.  He is a Democrat, and in addition to his ministerial work runs a
large farm of 500 acres.

Surnames:Atkisson, Ellison, Holmes, Woods
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."