MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Isaac V. Dark
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ISAAC V. DARK, farmer, was born July 14, 1818, in Wilson County, Tenn., son of
James and Martha (Gates) Dark, both natives of North Carolina.  They were
married in Wilson County, and afterward moved to this county, where the mother
died.  The father then married Sarah Fisher, went to Illinois, but finally
settled in West Tennessee, where he died.  He was a farmer and millwright by
occupation.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and participated in the
battle of New Orleans.  Our subject grew to manhood on the farm and received a
common school education.  In 1839 his marriage to Lydia C. Green was
solemnized and the results of this union were the birth of eight children--
three boys and five girls.  Two of the boys, James and Harris, were soldiers
in the late war.  At Chickamauga the former received a wound in the foot from
the effects of which he died.  The second served until the close of the war.
In 1876 our subject's first wife died and about five months later he married
Martha Steward, by whom he had five children--three boys and two girls.  Mr.
Dark is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For twelve years he served
as magistrate, filling that office in an able and satisfactory manner.  For
about twenty-six years he worked at the shoe-making trade, being a first-class
workman.  At the present he is engaged in agricultural pursuits and has a good
farm of 168 acres.  He has been a resident of Marshall County for sixty-one
years and is accounted a good farmer and an excellent citizen.  He is a
Democrat in politics.

Surnames: Dark, Fisher, Gates, Green, Steward 
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."