History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. pp. 267-68. [Wallonia Precinct]

ROBERT WADE was born December 29, 1824, in Montgomery County, Tenn.  He is
the seventh child of a family of twelve born to Peter and Elizabeth
(Wortham) Wade.  The former was born in Halifax County, Va.; he died in
October, 1860, aged seventy-two.  The mother was born in the same county
and State in 1796; she died in 1866.  Our subject was brought to this
county with his parents in 1832.  He assisted on their farm till [sic] the
age of twenty-one, since which time he has been carrying on business on
his own account.  He lived on a rented farm from 1860 to 1863, and then
bought his present farm, which consists of 216 1/2 acres.  Mr. Wade was
married in September, 1861, to Miss Nancy J. Brandon.  She was born in
Trigg County.  They have four children--three sons and one daughter.  They
lost William Lee September 1, 1883, aged seventeen.  Lucy Jane died in
1881.  Mr. Wade is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a life-long and
devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Wade Wortham Brandon
=
Montgomery-TN Halifax-VA

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