MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - John B. Luna
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JOHN B. LUNA is a son of James G. and Rhoda C. (Stevens) Luna, native
Tennesseeans. They were members of the Primitive Baptist Church. The father
was a Democrat, and died in 1846, at the age of thirty-nine. The mother
lived until 1880. John B.'s birth occurred in Marshall County
August 29, l844. At the age of fifteen he began earning his own living,
receiving a common school education. For about eleven months he served in
Company I, Eighth Tennessee Infantry, and then returned home and resumed
farming. In 1864 he wedded Mattie YowelI, who died the following year. In
1870 Maggie Vaughn became his wife and seven children blessed their union.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Luna are members of the Primitive Baptist Church, and,
like his father, Mr. Luna is a Democrat. They possess 235 acres of land,
and he is considered one of the best farmers of Marshall County. He gives
much attention to raising fine stock and owns the two horses, Tom Hall and
Chieftain, the latter of Black Satin stock. For forty-two years he has been
a resident of Marshall County, and no man has been more intimately
connected with the progress of the county than he.

Surnames: Luna, Stevens, Vaughn, Yowell
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."