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 […]

William Dean Thompson, Jr. March 2, 1944 – June 4, 1998 Nelda McDonald Thompson July 9, 1945 Children: Chris Thompson, Melissa Gilmore, Courtney Carter 5 Grandchildren, 1 Great Granddaughter William Dean Thompson was born in the Bairds Mill community in 1944 to William Dean Sr. and Mildred Neal Thompson on the farm where Nelda still […]

Terry Thomas Thompson was born in Wilson County to William Dean and Mildred Neal Thompson. He grew up with brother, William Dean Thompson, Jr. on the family farm on Central Pike in the Bairds Mill Community. The Thompson farm was home to a dairy operation, Suffolk Sheep and Duroc hogs along with crops of tobacco […]

1918 – 1996 Married: Sara Dotson Children: Ginny Perdue, Ed Stanford 5 Grandchildren and 4 Great Grand Children Harold Edwin Stanford was born to parents, R.D. and Myrtle Meredith Stanford, on November 23, 1918 in Oklahoma City, but his family moved to Donelson, Tennessee in 1919 when he was just 6 months old. He grew […]

Born: 1958 Married: Julie 3 Children Lanas was born December 23, 1958. He was raised on the family farm on Cainsville Road between Lebanon and Norene where his mother still resides and his oldest brother, Quintin, still farms. He is the third of four boys, born to Ray and Dorothy Jean Smith. Lanas has always […]

1906 - 1987 Married: Elsie Margaret Ivy Smith 4 Children 6 Great-Grandchildren, 13 Great-Great Grandchildren Dave Smith, Sr. was born in Wilson County in 1906. He grew up on the family farm on Coles Ferry Pike. He attended Oakland Elementary School as a child. Later he bought 120 acres on Horn Springs Rd. Dave, Sr. […]

Born: 10/18/1930 Married: Vondie Tarpley, 1962 Mr. Dan Smith has lived and farmed in Wilson County all his life. In 1942, after the bottomland of the farm where he was born was taken by the construction of Old Hickory Dam on the Cumberland River, the Smith family moved to a farm in the Greenwood community, […]