History of Fentress County, Tennessee, Albert R. Hogue. Originally 
published Nashville, Tenn, 1916. Reprinted by  Baltimore Regional 
Publishing Company, 1975, p. 99 [Unknown county]

DAVID HUTCHINSON RANKIN.  D. H. Rankin was born in Kentucky in 1859.  
His parents were Thomas Rankin and Hannah (Shearer) Rankin; 
grandparents, Robert Rankin and Barabara (Hutchinson) Rankin; Daniel 
Shearer. 
	The Rankin family came from Scotland to America in the days of 
sail ships, and settled in Kentucky.  The Hutchinsons also came from 
Scotland, the Shearers came from Germany.
	D. H. Rankin came from Kentucky to Fentress County in 1880 and 
engaged in the mercantile and the milling business on Wolf River, and 
remained there for eight years, during which time he married Ermine 
Huff, a daughter of Alvin C. Huff of Pall Mall.  In 1888 he moved to 
Jamestown and continued the mercantile business.  At present he is also 
interested in the milling business.

Rankin Shearer Hutchinson Huff
=
Scotland Germany 

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