R. G. Menzies, a prominent farmer and grain dealer, residing at Newbern, Tenn., was born in Rockingham County, N. C., in 1825, and is the only surviving one of six children born to Robert and Mary Menzies. Robert Menzies, our subject's father, was born in Scotland, in 1781, and came to America when about twenty-two years old, and located in North Carolina, for many years being a merchant, and keeping a hotel at Leaksville, N. C., where he died. Mr. Menzies was educated in Perry County, Tenn. In 1852 he married Sarah F., daughter of Capt. A. P. Hall. Mrs. Menzies was born in Carroll County, Tenn., in 1833, and they have six children: Mary E. (wife of H. Parks), Leila E. (widow of Ernest Davis), Robert A., Lena M., Finis E. and Nona. After his marriage Mr. Menzies farmed for some time in Decatur County. In 1870 he moved to Dyer County, settling in Newbern, where he has since resided. For seven years he was one of the trustees of the Newbern school. He owns a splendid farm, part of it being within the corporation of Newbern. He is a wide-awake, practical farmer, and on his land has raised 80 bushels of corn to the acre, and regards Dyer County as the garden spot of Tennessee for farming purposes. Mr. Menzies is a Democrat and a Mason, and advocates national prohibition, and with his family belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.