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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

        J. S. CARMACK, farmer, was born in Washington County, Va., August
    8, 1830, the son of CORNELIUS and MARTHA (SUSONG) CARMACK, the former
    born at the above place in January, 1800, the son of WILLIAM, a
    Pennsylvanian. The next ancestor, JOHN, came from England to Pennsyl-
    vania, and was the ancestor of all of this name west of the Potomac.
    Several of his sons served in the Revolution. He entered 600 acres of
    land, most of which is still owned by the family, and which was on
    disputed territory between Virginia and Tennessee, so that the Legis-
    latures of those commonwealths had to compromise on the question of
    taxes. He settled his children on large tracts of land in Hawking
    County, and returned to Washington County, Va., where he died. WILLIAM
    died in the same county, leaving ten children, of whom CORNELIUS was
    the second. The mother was born in Virginia in 1805, the daughter of
    JACOB and MARGARET (BAGGS) SUSONG, he a magistrate of his county, and
    deceased June 17,1877. The grandfather was a major on Gen. WASHINGTON’S
    staff, and was a native of France, born of a German mother. MARTHA died
    July 2, 1887. Both parents were Presbyterians. Our subject, the fourth
    of ten children, was educated in Washington, County, Va., and at Paper-
    ville. In 1861 he joined Company C, Forty-eighth Virginia Confederate
    Infantry and became second lieutenant, and a few months later became
    commander of two companies, until his health failed him in 1861. In
    1862 he was commissioned captain in the quartermaster’s department, but
    in September his health failed him, and he returned home. He made
    another attempt to enter service, but was rejected on account of his
    health. In February, 1863, he was relieved from field duty, and in
    March was placed on post duty in Tennessee and Georgia. Since the war
    he has been a farmer, and now owns 1,000 acres of land in this and
    Washington (Va.) Counties. In December, 1871, he married JANE, the
    daughter of PHILIP and MARY BUSHONG, and born June 23,1863. Their
    children were MARTHA E., ROBERT P. and an infant deceased. Our subject
    and wife are Presbyterians.

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