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Jesse W. Peeler, a farmer, of the Twelfth District, engaged also in cotton-ginning, is a son of Jacob W. and Mary C. (Pugh) Peeler, and was born in Tippah County, Miss., in 1852, being one of eleven children, eight living. The father was of Dutch extraction, born in Hickman County, Tenn., in 1818. He went to Mississippi when a young man, married there, and lived in that State until 1859, when he came to Tipton County and settled in the Twelfth District, where he died in 1877. He was a successful farmer. Mrs. Peeler was born in North Carolina January 1, 1823, and died in 1881. They were both members of the Old School Baptist Church. Our subject was raised and educated in Tipton County. January 31. 1877, he married Louise J., daughter of Alfred McGuire. She was born in Tipton County in 1858, and died in 1882. They had two children: Leslie W. and James Alfred. July, 1884, he married Maggie, daughter of Robert and Catharine Ervine, and they have one child—Eddie Porter. Mr. Peeler has been living on his present farm since his first marriage; it has over 100 acres in it, and the land is rich and well cultivated. He owns fifty-six acres in another tract. Although still a young man, Mr. Peeler ranks with the leading farmers of his district. His farm, when he bought it, was covered with a dense growth of timber, and he has cleared it, and has well cultivated, productive fields in place of it. In politics he is a conservative Democrat; his first presidential vote was for S. J. Tilden. Mrs. Peeler was born in Tipton County in 1868, and they are both highly esteemed for their many excellent qualities.