Charles Ready
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Biography
Ready was born in Readyville in Rutherford County, now called Cannon County, on December 22, 1802. He attended the common schools and graduated from Greeneville College in Tennessee. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1825, and commenced practice in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.[1] He was married to Martha Alvoid Strong on May 19, 1825 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Their offspring were:[2]
- Charles
- Aaron
- Mary Emma
- Horace
- Martha (Mattie) (1840-1887); she married Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan as his second wife – only one of their two daughters reached adulthood yet died soon after marriage; she married secondly on 31 January 1873 in Rutherford, Tennessee, to William Henry Williamson (1828-1887),[3] and had five children:[4]
- William Henry Williamson (b. 1873), m. Mary Ready Weaver
- Martha Ready Williamson (b. 1874), m. Winstead P. Bone
- Charles Ready Williamson (b. 1876)
- Alice Martin Williamson (b. 1878), m. Amzi W. Hooker
- Nannie Williamson (1881-1883)
- (Cora) Alice
- Ella Love
Career
In 1835, Ready was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing Rutherford County, alongside Granville Smith Crockett.[5][6] He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and re-elected as a member of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1859.[5] He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress, and resumed the practice of law.
Death
Ready died in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on June 4, 1878. He is buried at Evergreen Cemetery.[7]
References
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- ↑ Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, TN, USA: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Microfilm. Accessed via Ancestry.com July 2017.
- ↑ Correction sheet for the genealogy of the Cloyd, Basye and Tapp families and a photograph of A D Cloyd. Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, database on-line. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Accessed July 2017.
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External links
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- 1802 births
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- People from Cannon County, Tennessee
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- American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law
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