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Submitted: 5/16/14 • Approved: 5/7/15 • Last Updated: 8/15/15 • R61136-G0-S3
US Army
Company B 2nd Regiment Tennessee Mounted Infantry
March 6, 1844 - February 6, 1920
In Tennessee Who's Who
"Who's Who in Tennessee - A Biographical Reference of Notable Tennesseans of Today," pubilshed by Paul Douglas Company, Memphis, Tennessee, 1911. The entry says, "Davis, Joseph N., farmer; born Lawrence Co., Tenn., March 6, 1845; English descent; son of David H. and Matilda Wakefield Davis; father minister of the gospel; paternal grandparents, William and Elizabeth Matison Davis; maternal grandparents, Abel and Katie Stuckey Wakefield; educated Hardin Co., Tenn.; entered farming early in life, served in USA 1863-65, also in Spanish-American War, 1898; married Nancy Copeland, Jan. 16, 1867; member Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union of America; member of Missionary Baptist church; engagesd in farming and mercantile business at Waynesboro, Tenn."
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