Fayette County, TN Genealogy

Goodspeed's History of Tennessee -

Fayette County Biographies

A. J. Ivy

Surnames: IVY, THOMPSON

A. J. Ivy, a citizen and ex merchant, of Hickory Withe, Fayette County, was born September 6, 1837, in Halifax County, N. C., and has one brother and three sisters living. The parents were both natives of North Carolina; the father was born in Halifax County, and the mother in Franklin County; they married in Halifax County, and farmed in Franklin County until the year of our subject's birth when they moved to Fayette County, Tenn., locating near Hickory Withe, where they farmed until the father's death in June, 1854. The mother died in February, 1879. In 1861 our subject enlisted in tile, Confederate Army, in the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry. He was soon promoted to orderly sergeant and served until the war closed. He was in the Georgia campaign, and in the battles of Belmont, Corinth, Nashville and Franklin and many others. After the war he returned home and resumed farming until 1873, when he commenced merchandising at Hickory Withe holding an interest in a stock of goods with A. Weber, successor to Weber & Wilson. In 1885 he sold his interest to R. H. Bone and retired. January, 1867, he married Nancy J. Thompson, and three children have been born: Pearla T., Eliza L. and Charles P. Their mother died June 29, 1877. Mr. Ivy owns two tracts of land, in one 101 acres, and in the other 142 acres. He is a Cumberland Presbyterian and an F. & A. M., and his support is always to the Democratic party.

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