MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - John B. Wilhoite
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JOHN B. WILHOITE, farmer and stock dealer, is a son of William and Anna A.
(Warner) Wilhoite, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively.
The father was a miller, running successfully an old-style mill during his
life.  He was a democrat, an attendant and his wife a
member of the Missionary Baptist Church.  He died at the age of thirty.  In
1835 the mother came to this county, and soon afterward married James
Robinson,  of Capt. Robinson.  Her second husband died three years
later.  She died in 1876.  Our subject was born December 23, 1830, in
Bedford County, and did not have the best advantages for an education, but
made the most of what he did have.  After leaving the common schools he
completed his education in Chapel Hill Academy.  At the age of fifteen he
took charge of the home farm, and a year later planned and superintended
the construction of the grist and saw-mill at Fishing Ford, which he has
run ever since.  He is also the constructor of the dam furnishing water to
the mills.  In 1862 he volunteered in the Confederate Army in Capt.
Miller's company of Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry, and after three years of
faithful service returned home.  In 1869 he wedded Lizzie T. Bullock, of
Williamson County, born in 1846; the fruits of this union were three
children, all living-Jacob, Mary and Addie.  Mr. Wilhoite is a Democrat, a
Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.  Mrs.
Wilhoite is a member of the Methodist Church.  Our subject has considerable
of this world's goods, and has lived in Marshall County for forty-six years.

Surnames: Bullock, Robinson, Warner, Wilhoite
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."