(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Selina Frances Henry.
Sie haben geheiratet am 18. Oktober 1866 in Sneedville, Hawkins County, Tennessee, er war 28 Jahre alt.Quelle 3
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(2) Er ist verheiratet mit John Hicks wife Sallie [-England?-] Trent.
Sie haben geheiratet am 14. Mai 1891 in New Marker, Jefferson County, Tennessee, er war 53 Jahre alt.Quellen 3, 17, 18
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Das Paar ist geschieden.
1 _MILT
2 DATE BET 26 NOV 1862 AND 26 SEP 1863
2 PLAC Civil War: North-Union, Cavalry
2 SOUR S010281
3 PAGE Page 1215
2 SOUR S069424
2 SOUR S162789
3 PAGE Master Page #0231
3 DATA
4 TEXT Enumeration District 106, Page 3 Morristown
"J. H. Trent, is the eighth of nine children of Zachariah and Naomi (Greene) Trent, natives of Virginia and North Carolina. His father was born in 1801, and in youth came to Hawkins County, where he met and married his wife, and filled many positions of public trust in the same county. He (his father) was the first sheriff of Hancock County, and he died in 1850, and the mother died in Morristown in 1877. Our subject was born in Hawkins County in 1838. He attended the common schools, and at the age of fourteen, assumed the care of his mother, and a younger sister. He persisted in educating himself, however, and entered the Sneedville Academy, in his seventeenth year, remaining several years, and twice carrying off the highest honors of the school. He taught at intervals, for the support of his mother and sister, and to enable him to continue his studies. He closed his school at Mulberry Gap, Tenn., and entered Mossy Creek College in 1860, but the war thwarted his purposed graduation, and he entered the Fourth Tennessee Infantry {Federal), in which he soon became first lieutenant, and also captain of the First Tennessee Cavalry (Union). He was discharged on account of disability, after nearly two years' service. He studied law under Judge Nelson, late of the supreme court, and began practice at Sneedville in 1866; soon after which he married the daughter of Col. (See my note below) John R. Henry, of Knoxville. He moved to Morristown in 1871, especially to educate his children, and has since filled, efficiently, the offices of superintendent of schools, postmaster, and is now trustee of the county. He served seven years as postmaster, under four different presidents, and nine postmaster-generals. He has two sons and four daughters living, and two sons and one daughter deceased. The family are Baptists. He is a Republican, decided, but kind and courteous."
(MY NOTE: The Nashville Daily Union dated April 14 & 15, 1863 newspaper about his death states he was a Lieutenant)
(SOURCE: Book: History of Tennessee; East Tennessee Edition; Illustrated 1887 by The Goodspeed Publishing Co)
Union Army certificate #122-521, Hamblen County, Tennessee. Lieutenant, Fourth Tennessee Infantry. Captain, Company A, First Tennessee Cavalry.
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6th Civil District, Morristown Post Office, Master Page #0231, Enumeration District 106.