MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - William M. Dozier
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WILLIAM M. DOZIER, farmer, is a son of Zachariah and Cynthia A. (Johnson)
Dozier, natives, respectively, of Missouri and Tennessee.  The former was born
in 1800 and the latter in 1809.  The father moved, when young, to Kentucky,
and finally to Rutherford County, where he was married.  He was a farmer and a
member of the Primitive Baptist Church, as was also his wife.  He was a
Democrat in politics.  His death occurred in 1870.  The mother died in 1885.
William M. Dozier was born December 15, 1834, and, like the average country
boy, received his education in the common schools.  At the age of nineteen he
went into the mercantile business as salesman, where he remained for eight
years.  In 1861 he enlisted in Capt. Webb's company of Eighteenth Tennessee
Infantry as second lieutenant, and after nearly two years of faithful service
he returned to his mercantile business.  In 1868 he wedded Calidonia Talley,
by whom he has two children:  Ada M. and William Z.  Mr. Dozier is a Democrat
in politics, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.  For ten
years he has successively and successfully held the office of constable.  He
has been a resident of Marshall County for over twenty-one years, and is
considered one of the county's best citizens.


Surnames: Dozier, Johnson, Talley
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."