MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - James M. Welborn
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JAMES M. WELBORN, farmer and stock raiser, is a son of Johnson and Elatia
(Knight) Welborn.  The father was born in Bedford County in 1814, and the
mother in Rutherford County about 1822.  After marriage they settled in
Henderson County, and after a short residence came to
this county in 1849. About twenty years later he moved to Texas, where the
both died, the father in 1870 and the mother in 1880.  The father was a
Democrat, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He was a
farmer and stock raiser and owned about 600 acres of land.  Our subject,
James M. Welborn, was born Feburary 12, 1841, in Henderson County, passed
his youthful days in aiding his father on the farm and in attending the
common schools, where he received a good English education.  He was
preparing for a course in the higher schools when the stirring events of
the war broke into his plans. In 1861 he volunteered in the Confederate
Army, Company F, Seventeenth Tennessee Infantry, and after eighteen montys'
service was transferred to Company A, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry.  He
received but on slight wound and was never captured during the four years
he was in service.  In 1865 he married Rosa L. Hutton, who was born August
31, 1843, and five children blessed this union.  Mr. Welborn is a Democrat
in politics, and he and wife are zealous workers in the Missionary Baptist
Church.  He has a fine farm of 100 acres lying on the pike.  In the line of
fine stock, he keeps a fine horse of Traveler & Brooks stock, and two first
class jacks.

Surnames: Hutton, Knight, Welborn
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."