Napoleon Bonaparte “Bone” Calvert was born on September 18, 1822. He was the son of John N. Calvert, a pioneer Presbyterian minister, who traveled from Alabama to Massac and later to Pope and then Williamson County. Napoleon had the following siblings: Silas M., Joseph Lewis, William Simpson, John Bunyan, George Marion, Martha Caroline, Thomas A. and Nancy Clementine Calvert. Several children died as infants or young children. Continue reading
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William Joseph Caplinger was a carpenter by trade. After moving to Marion in 1900, he was very active as a carpenter and contractor, having built a large number of the better homes and buildings in Marion. Continue reading
Joseph Fozard was a native of Yorkshire, England, born at Batley January 15, 1853, to Martin Fozard and Sarah Mortimer. His father was a woolen manufacturer in England, and went to work at the same business on coming to this country, about 1859. He settled in New Jersey about the beginning of the Civil War and brought up his son to the same trade. Continue reading