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Eades, Charles (1928- )

Orphaned when young, Charles Eades and his brother lived in a children’s home and then with foster parents who permitted the boys to keep their family name. After working his way through school and serving in the army, Eades began working as a CPA in the corporate offices of Emery Industries. Later he moved to Nashville as vice president of Ingram Industries and president and CEO of Tennessee Insurance Company. He has served as a County Commissioner of Williamson County. In 1990, upon retirement, he located an uncle on his mother’s side of the family and began finding the relatives he had never known. This discovery led to the five volumes of family history he has published. In May, 2002 he became the eleventh inductee of the Goshen High School Hall of Fame at their 107^th commencement for “lifetime achievement and outstanding service to our nation, state, and community.”

–Descendants of Michael Arbogast (ca. 1734–1812), 5 Vols., 1996

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Eaton, John Henry (1790–1856)

A native of Halifax County, North Carolina, John Eaton moved to Franklin in 1809. He was a staunch supporter of Andrew Jackson and served in the U.S. Senate from 1818 until 1829, when he resigned to become President Jackson’s Secretary of War. He later served as territorial governor of Florida and as minister to Spain. He wrote on political subjects and was a co-author of The Life of Andrew Jackson, published in Philadelphia in 1824 and reissued in 1974 with introduction and notes by the famed Southern historian Frank Lawrence Owsley.

–Letters of John Henry Eaton, 1821-1840
–Candid Appeal to the American Public, 1831
–Life of Major General Andrew Jackson: Comprising History of the War in the South from the Commencement of the Creek Campaign to the Termination of Hostilities Before New Orleans, 1828
–The Life of Andrew Jackson (with John Reid), 1824, reissued 1974

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Ehresman, Marie Little (1929- )

Marie Ehresman grew up in Brentwood, was educated in Davidson County schools, and graduated from Peabody College. She taught physical education in Davidson County schools before marrying and moving to a dairy farm in Triune. She and her husband have one daughter, a Vanderbilt graduate. Ehresman has enjoyed sports as well as genealogical research. Her books have been well received, requiring additional printings.

–The McCanless Family of Crystal Valley, 1996
–Lewis Johnson and Related Families: Edwards, Morton and Lawrence, 1991

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Elam, Erica

A native of Franklin, Erica Elam has lived here most of her life and is a graduate of Franklin High School. Her second-grade teacher first interested her in writing. The professors at the Governor’s School for the Humanities, which she attended after tenth grade, were very helpful. Elam attended Emerson College in Boston, majoring in drama and English. Her book contains more than ninety of her poems, mostly from the Governor’s School experience and beyond; their general theme is growth and increasing awareness.

–Eleven O’clock in the Park, 1997

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Eudailey, Laneive W.

Born in Murfreesboro, Laneive W. Eudailey moved to Williamson County in 1937 and graduated from Franklin High School in 1941. Her father was a Primitive Baptist minister. Eudailey was a member of the Williamson County Senior Citizens Advisory Committee and wrote articles for the Senior Sentinel, published by the Knowles Senior Citizen Group. She participated in a writing class at College Grove Senior Citizen Center. She has since moved to North Carolina to be near her daughter.

–We Baptists of Wilson Creek Primitive Baptist Church 1804– , 1984

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Ewing, James (1917–1989)

Descended from one of Nashville’s first families, James Ewing graduated from the University of Michigan. A veteran reporter, he was a former bureau chief of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. He joined the Nashville Banner in 1973 as a copyeditor. In 1974 he moved to the editorial department and took over the paper’s book page and op ed page. Ewing lived in Franklin until his death. In his honor, the Banner gave an annual award to the best book reviewer for the paper.

–It Happened in Tennessee (compiled by James Ewing), 1986
–A Treasury of Tennessee Tales, 1985 (revised edition with additional stories by James Crutchfield, 1997)

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Ewyn, Terah (see Perkins, Theresa Green Erwin)

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