MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - J. Britt Ezell
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J. BRITT EZELL, farmer, was born July 14, 1838, in Marshall County, and at the
age of thirteen, with the consent of his parents, went to live with J. Britt
Fulton, an uncle, who had no children of his own.  While with him he received
a good academic education.  About the same time his uncle took a little girl,
by the name of Sarah J. Reynolds, to raise.  She and Britt grew up together,
went to school together, and as time passed on childish affection gave place
to stronger affections of man and womanhood, and in 1860, they were united in
matrimony.  To them seven children were born, five of whom are living.  He is
a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.  In 1861 Mr. Ezell volunteered in Company A, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry,
Confederate Army.  After about fifteen months' service as quartermaster and
commissary, he was transferred to the purchasing commissary department, where
he continued till the close of the war.  During the whole time he was in the
war he was neither wounded nor taken prisoner.  Since that time he has been
extensively engaged in farming and trading.  When his uncle died he left a
farm of 236 acres to our subject and wife, to which has been added sufficient
to make it 670 acres.  Our subject has lived in this county all his life, and
is considered a good farmer and an enterprising citizen.  He is a son of
Joseph D. and Mary C. (Fulton) Ezell, both natives of Tennessee, the father
born in 1810 and the mother in 1817.  The father was a farmer, besides being
engaged largely in trading and stock raising.  For several years he held the
position of magistrate, but was not a man who aspired to places of public
trust.  He died in 1889, leaving his widow and children well provided for.
Since his death the mother has lived with her children.


Surnames: Ezell, Fulton, Reynolds
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."