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Everitt H. Verhine was born in Stewart County, Tenn., February 6, 1816; the eldest of eight children of John W. and Elender (Howell) Verhine, and is of German descent. John W. Verhine was born in North Carolina, about 1791, and there was reared and married. He soon came to Stewart County, Tenn., and later moved to Obion County, where he settled permanently. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died at his home, near Union City, August 7, 1846. His wife was born in North Carolina, about 1797, and died at her daughter’s (Mrs. W. A. Edwards) home in Obion County, Tenn., in 1873. Our subject was educated in the common schools, and has been a tiller of the soil, from boyhood. He has a good farm of 150 acres, on which he raises cotton, grain, tobacco and stock. He donated sufficient ground for a cemetery, in which lies buried a Revolutionary soldier, by the name of Davis, who died at the age of 106 years. Mr. Verhine has been twice married, his first wife being Rebecca Carter, whom he married April 9, 1839. To them were born ten children: Ellen J., John P., James W., Samuel D., Augustus, William W., Everitt H., Henry H., Missouri B. and Susan C. Mrs. Verhine was born in North Carolina, in 1820, and died January 2, 1864. Mr. Verhine was married the second time, to Martha P. Gwinn, March 8, 1865. They have four children: Robert C., Emma, Alvin and Luther. Mr. and Mrs. Verhine are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is a Democrat, and was a Union man during the war. His wife was born in North Carolina, January 25, 1841.