MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Thomas E. Garrett
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THOMAS E GARRETT, dealer in stoves and tinware, is a son of Jacob and Mary
A. (Morris) Garrett, natives, respectively, of North Carolina and Maryland.
The father died at the age of seventy-seven and the mother at the age of
sixty-five.  The father was a farmer, a Democrat, and he and wife were
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Our subject was born September
23, 1842, in Sumner County, Tn.., he passed his early days on the farm and
attended the common schools.  At the age of seventeen he began learning the
tinner's trade with McClure, Buck &
Co., of Nashville. After  learning this trade, in 1877, he opened a store
of his own in Lewisburg and has been doing a good business since. In 1879
he wedd Elizabeth M. Brandon, and to this union were born two children.
During the war he enlisted in Company F, Fifteenth Tennessee Cavalry, and
served nearly two years. He then returned home and resumed his trade. Mr.
Garrett is a Democrat, and he and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.  Mr. Garrett has been a resident of Lewisburg for nine
years, and is recognized as one of the wide-awake business men of the town.

Surnames: Brandon, Garrett, Morris
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."