MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Hon. Dilliston S. McCullough
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HON. DILLISTON S. McCULLOUGH is a son of Richard and Nancy (Posey)
McCullough, natives of Virginia and South Carolina, respectively. The
father was born in 1803 and the mother in 1807. They were married in
Rutherford County, Tenn., and were the parents of ten children, five
of whom are now living. The father was a tiller of the soil and was quite
successful in that occupation. In politics he was, respectively, a Whig,
Know-nothing and Democrat. In 1878 the mother died and four years later the
father died, too. Our subject was born May 11, 1838, in
Rutherford County, and is of Scotch-Irish descent. He passed his youthful
days on the farm and received his education in the district schools; later
he took an academic course at Union Hill, and finished at Union University,
where he graduated in 1860, with the degree of A. B. After
teaching a term he volunteered, in 1861, to lead Company D, Eighth
Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, which afterward became Starnes' regiment.
Having served about twelve months he resigned his commission and joined the
Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry. After the war he taught two terms, but not
liking the nomadic life of a teacher, he turned his attention to
agricultural pursuits, in which he is still engaged. In 1865 he married
Martha J. Jordon, and to them were born three children: Ruben J., William
R. and Dilliston. Mr. McCullough is a Democrat in politics and has not
escaped public notice. In 1880 he was elected senator of the Thirteenth
District, representing Marshall, Lincoln, Moore and Franklin
Counties, and in 1883 he was elected to the same position by the Sixteenth
Senatorial District, composed of Marshall and Williamson Counties.
Mr. McCullough has been a resident of Marshall County for seventeen years,
has a good farm of 180 acres, and is one of the county's best men.

Surnames: Jordon, McCullough, Posey
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."