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 […]

Born: March 1, 1933 Grew up in Gladeville, TN Sons: Stanley and Stacey Word Grandchildren: Montana and Bode Word Edna Word was born to Aubrey and Ruth (Swain) Towns on March 1, 1933 in Gladeville. She grew up on a small farm on Central Pike and helped her parents tend to the grocery and feed […]

1921 - 1975 Married: Betty Patton 3 Children 8 Grandchildren 7 Great-Grandchildren Troy Vanatta was born in 1921 on a farm in the Mahone Community near Watertown. He had an identical twin brother, Roy Vanatta. Troy was raised on the family dairy farm where they milked cows, raised tobacco, corn and other similar crops. He […]

August 24, 1932 Married: Alice C. Moss Children: Andy & Angela 5 Grandchildren John R. Trice was born August 24, 1932 on his family farm on Trice Road in Wilson County which is a certified Century Farm. He was raised in a Christian family by his parents, Henry and Era. They taught him to be […]

June 1907 - August 1989 Married: Ruth Swain of Gladeville, October 29, 1927 Daughter: Edna T. Word Grandchildren: Stanley and Stacey Word Great grandchildren: Montana and Bode Word Aubrey Towns was the oldest son of Daniel and Callie Towns and siblings Earle and Sarah of Gladeville. They grew up on a small farm on the […]

Feb. 24, 1948 Married: Anne Buhler Daughter: Lisa Anne Tomlinson David Means Tomlinson was born on February 24, 1948, in Lebanon, to Frank and Nettie (Lemons) Tomlinson. He was born a 7th generation Wilson Countian, and farming was his family’s business. On December 21, 1955, he moved from his grandparents' Beasley’s Bend farm along with […]