MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Joseph McBride
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JOSEPH McBRIDE, clerk of the county court, was born December 27, 1827 in
Lincoln (now Marshall) County, Tenn., and is of Scotch-Irish descent. He is
a son of G. W. and Mary H. (Cook) McBride, natives, respectively, of North
Carolina and Virginia. The father was a farmer, a Democrat in politics, and
occupied the office of magistrate the greater part of his life. He died at
the age of sixty-two and the mother at the age of sixty. Our subject grew
to manhood on the farm and received a practical education in the common
schools. In 1853 he wedded Mary A. V. Palmer, by whom he had ten children,
seven of whom are living. Mr. McBride, like his father before him, is a
stanch Democrat,, and he and wife are members of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. For nearly twelve years he has served as magistrate,
and was also chairman of the county
court a term. In 1882 he was elected to the position he is now occupying,
and has filled that office in a highly satisfactory manner.

Surnames: Cook, McBride, Palmer
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."