John W. Gaulden, is a farmer and tobacco dealer, and was born in Cumberland County, Va., in 1831, and is one of a family of eleven children, six of whom are living in Dyer County. Their father, Michael O. B. Gaulden, was of Irish descent, and born in Virginia in 1801. Their grandfather, Josiah Gaulden, was also a native of Virginia. Michael Gaulden was raised at home and completed his education at Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, was a farmer by occupation, and for nearly thirty years was employed as an overseer. In 1821 he married Miss Margaret Gaulden. In 1847 he moved to Dyer County, and settled in the Sixth District, where he purchased in all 1,100 acres of land where he lived until his death, in January, 1886, after a married life of sixty-five years. Mrs. Gaulden was also a native of Virginia, born in 1802, and is living in Dyer County. Our subject, John W. Gaulden, was raised and educated at home, and January 10, 1856, he married Miss Lucinda Ann Nooe, of Dyer County, and had three children, two of whom are living; Michael A., of Obion County, and A. V., wife of Alex L. Roney. Two years previous to his marriage he settled on the farm he now lives on, and which consists of 260 acres of productive land, with fine improvements on it, four miles south of Newbern. Mrs. Gaulden died in July, 1860, and December 23, 1864, he married Miss Margaret A., daughter of Anderson and Anna Jones, and had four children by her. Robert, Kelley, Eunice Ann, Mary Belle and John Ezra are living. When the war commenced he enlisted in Company F, Twenty-second Tennessee Infantry. He was captured near Gallatin, and taken to Louisville where he was held five weeks, then removed to Nashville, and in two weeks was paroled; he then returned home and in two months joined the cavalry, under Gen. Bell, in which he served as provost until the spring of 1864, when he was transferred to the Bull brigade, and until the close of the war was engaged in receiving provisions for the army. He has been a life-long Democrat, his first vote being cast for Jas. Buchanan; is also a long standing member of the I.O.O.F., and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Gaulden is a Missionary Baptist, and was born in Rutherford County, in 1839.