Some Early Settlers of Upper Sumner County, Tennessee
The Hobdy, Cotton, Durham, Gillespie, Perdue, Absher, Mattox, Cochran and Mayes Families

Compiled by
Lee Alton Absher, M.D.

Including a reprint of
"The Settlement of Portland, Tennessee"

by

William T. McGlothlin

published in The Portland Herald, 1909-1910

Knoxville, Tennessee
© Copyright 1966

Thanks to Mrs. Reba Absher for permission to reprint the work of her husband, Lee Absher!

Thanks to Janet Perdue King for retyping the book!


Table of Contents
Part One



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