MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Thomas C. Black
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THOMAS C. BLACK, a leading druggist of Lewisburg, and a native of Rutherford
County, was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. He is the
son of  Thomas C. and Catherine W. (Morton) Black. The parents were natives of
Rutherford County, Tenn.; the father born in 1808 and the mother 1816. They
were married in their native county and were the parents of twelve children,
eleven of whom are still living. The father was a physician and farmer. He
died in 1876, and the mother still lives on the old homestead. Grandfather
Black, a Scotch-Irishman, came in an early day from Scotland and taught one of
the first schools in Murfreesboro. Our subject, after reaching manhood, began
the mercantile business as salesman for Miles & McKinley, in Murfreesboro.
After conducting business in that county on his own responsibility for a short
time he came to Marshall County in 1875 and engaged in the lumber business.
Five years later he opened a drug store with Dr. S.D. Ewing, in Lewisburg.
After dissolving partnership Mr. Black opened the store where he now does an
active business. For twelve months he served as a soldier in Col. W.S.
McLemore's company. In politics he is a Democrat and is a member of the
Presbyterian Church.


Surnames: Black, Ewing, Morton
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."