CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JOHN FRANKLIN HADEN - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JOHN F. HADEN.

John Franklin Haden was born in Desoto county, Miss., May 31, 1846, 
but raised in Marshall county, the same state.  Removed to Texas in 
1871 and settled in Tyler.

Enlisted in the Confederate army in August 1861, he being attached 
to Hughes' Batallion until the organization of the cavalry in 1863, 
when his com­pany, G, was made a part of the 4th Mississippi cavalry 
regiment that served  with great distinction in the Army of Tennessee 
under Wheeler, Jackson, Forrest, and Arm­strong. Young Haden was at all 
times at his post of duty. Although a boy he played a good and brave 
part in the great war drama from 1861 to the close in 1865.  He has 
been a leading business man in Tyler; was postmaster under Cleve­land 
in his home city, and is now the popular county clerk of Smith county. 
A man of pleasing address, makes him­ielf agreeable and accommodating, 
hence, his popularity. A Confederate soldier, a loyal citizen, and 
honest man. On June 10th, 1874 he married Miss Amelia Finley, a 
daughter of the Rev. R. S. Finley, a leading Methodist minister of 
marked piety and learning.  Mrs.  Haden is a sister of Judge N. W. 
Finley of Dallas. PoŁt office, Tyler, Texas.