1934 - 2023 Married: Peggy Thorne Simpson Don Simpson was born in Watertown, TN on December 11, 1934, to parents Roy and Irene (Davis) Simpson. The Simpson Family owned and operated a Grade-A Dairy Farm in Watertown. Don graduated from Watertown High School in 1954. Then, in 1958, he completed work at Middle Tennessee State […]

Married: Gayla Carter 2 Children Johnnie Gershon Ricketts was born August 4, 1946, to Hall and Louise Ricketts. Johnnie was raised on a Grade A dairy farm on Central Pike. Johnnie graduated from Mt Juliet High School, where he played football and basketball, was an officer in the FFA and was vice president of his […]

1951 - 2020 Married: Cheryl Ann Summers Ligon Children: Randi Langlois, Dr. Andy Ligon DVM, Jason Duncan Ligon Bill Ligon was born, raised and still lives and farms the bicentennial land that his original ancestor, John Cloyd, staked in 1789 as a Revolutionary War land grant in the Mt Juliet community. Growing up on the […]

1937 – 1983 Married: Johnnie Mae Wright Yelton 2 Children Noel Gray Yelton was born on June 12, 1937 with his twin sister, Neva Elton White, at St. Thomas Hospital in downtown Nashville. Mr. Clarence Gray Yelton and his wife, Mrs. Irene Hayes Yelton, brought their newborn twins home to Mt. Juliet; where they joined […]

Born: 1933 Married: Wilma Hall Wright 3 Children 7 Grandchildren 9 Great-Grandchildren In 1933, James H. Wright was born one of five siblings. He was always helping the family in farming. After his graduation from Mt. Juliet High School in 1951, James began farming and later, James took a few public jobs to support his […]

2 Children: Dale Willoughby & Kate Willoughby Grigsby. Don was born to Charles and Dorothy Willoughby and joined his older brother Al on the family farm known at the time as Green Hill Farm. A Grade A dairy was the main farming operation along with raising crops for feed and forage, as well as tobacco. […]

1930 - September 11, 2012 Married: Dorothy Roach Willoughby Children: Al & Don Willoughby 2 Grandchildren Charles Willoughby was the second of five sons born to A.H. and Edna Willoughby of Morristown, Tennessee. He was raised on the family farm and began milking cows at age fifteen as part of the family’s Grade B dairy […]

1913 - 2003 Married: Mary Alice Seay, 1939 Children: Mary Davis, Ruth Wharton, AC Wharton Jr., Kenneth Wharton, Velma Lowe 9 Grandchildren and 7 Great-Grandchildren A.C. Wharton was born July 22,1913 in rural Wilson County as the eldest son of Jim Wharton and Estella Hearn Wharton .There were nine siblings for whom he served as […]

December 17, 1896 – February 10, 1964 Wife: Tressa Children: Henry Dean, Margaret Brown Reed, Kathleen Lindsley Sewell, David Anderson Mr. Waters was born on a farm in the Greenwood community of Wilson county. He was the sixth of nine children born to Edgar and Kate Lindsley Waters. Greenwood Farm, as it was known, was […]

1907 Married: Ruth Hudgins Children: Jim Hudgins Ward, Rosalyn Ruth Ward, Sarah Jane Ward Jaeger Mr. Ward, was reared in Bedford County and graduated from Middle Tennesse State College in 1930. Did graduate work at the University of Arkansas and University of Tennessee. After graduation he taught math in Coffee County until 1936 when he […]