Joseph E. Dent

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Joseph E. DENT's birth occurred in North Carolina in 1807, and he is one of eight children born to the marriage of John Dent and Eda Williams. The former was born in North Carolina in 1783, and was married when about twenty-one years of age. He died about 1845 and his widow a few years later. His father, John Dent, Sr., was born in Maryland, and served as a private soldier in he Revolutionary war. Joseph E. Dent was educated in the common schools, and when about nineteen years of age immigrated with his eldest sister, Mrs. Willis Cook, to Maury County, Tenn., and began working rented farms. In 1828 he came to Dresden and worked for several years at the carpenter's trade, and in 1834 removed to Hickman, Ky., and after residing there until 1844 returned to Weakley County and took charge of his father-in-law's farm for about three years. Since 1875 he has resided on his present farm of 210 acres. He also owns several other tracts of land amounting in all to over 500 acres of land. He was formerly a Whig in politics, but since the war has been strictly conservative. He belongs to the I.O.O.F. In January, 1830, he married Catherine Jones, daughter of Israel and Margaret Jones. They have no children of their own, but in 1852 they adopted an orphan boy, George W. RACHELS, whom they reared and who is now living on the farm with themselves. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dent are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

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Joseph married Catherine Jones in Jan 1830. Catherine (daughter of Israel Jones and Margaret Connor) was born on 18 May 1806 in Henry Co, Kentucky; died on 16 Jan 1894 in Weakley Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]