Ooops,I sent the post before finishing the article. lol. ......,and then entered the Army, greatly against his wishes.In 1864 he was taken sick in East Tennessee,and left by his Company in a seemingly dyng condition. After the close of the war he went to Atlanta,Ga., and for two years was engaged in the grocery business,after which he moved to Meigs County,Tenn., and eight years later located at Calhoun He is one of the leading and most successful merchants of the place,and carries a first-class stock of goods. He was appointed postmaster in 1880,and filled the office for six years. He is a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church,a Master Mason, and a Democrat. In January 1867,he married Mattie, daughter of Madison and Matilda Johnson,who was born in Meigs County and died at Calhoun January 24,1878. She secured a thorough education at Georgetown,Tenn.,was a consistent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,and the mother of four children, Etta, Mattie, Maggie and Leonidas, Three are living. Karen. This was a reprinted version from 1887.