CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JOHN C. MEDLIN - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JOHN C. MEDLIN.

John Coleman Medlin, born in Green county, Ala., 9th of March 1846, and
with his parents moved to Texas in 1854, where they settled in Smith 
county. When a mere boy he enlisted in company E, Brown's Texas 
regiment, performing service on the coast of Texas, until the surrender 
in May 1865, when he returned home. He is a leading business man and at
the head as nurseryman and fruit raiser. In April 1867 he was married 
to Miss Johnnie Hill, a daughter of Col. Wm. Hill of this county. Post 
office, Tyler, Texas.