Nancy, it looks as if your man lived in Toone [District 15] and this is what _Hardeman County Historical Sketches_ has about the railroad there-- in the town sketch of Toone, page 33/34 taken from a paper written in 1966 by Mrs. Fred Brown. "The Illinois Central Railroad was built through this section in 1856. The fills for laying of the track were built with pick, shovel, hoe and wheelbarrow by slave labor. Toone Station came into being and was laid out in lots. The first business house was a small grocery owned by T.J. Ruffin. Later came Knott & Barham, Anderson & Bradford, W.F. Robinson, Dr. John Nuckolls' drugstore, and a saloon run by Jesse Jones and Steve Pipkin. From the beginning it was a prosperous town, the out-growth of the railroad shipping point. During the Civil War a detachment of Union soldiers camped at the foot of Murdaugh Springs, sent to hold the all-important railroad."..... p.34..."Four passenger trains at one time stopped at a large depot in Toone. It burned in the 30s and as roads improved the passenger train became obsolete."