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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

       Dr. J. J. Ensor was born near Johnson City, Tenn., May 28, 1829,
   the son of THOMAS P. and HANNAH (JOBE) ENSOR, the former born near
   Baltimore, and a soldier of 1812, under Gen. JACKSON.  He was a pioneer
   of both Washington and Carter Counties, and died in Bristol, at the age
   of eighty-nine years. The mother, born near Johnson City also, was the
   daughter of DANIEL JOBE, a pioneer and extensive land holder near
   Johnson City. She died in 1859.  Our subject, the youngest of four
   children, was educated at Washington College, and began the study of
   medicine in 1846 under Dr. A. JOBE, of Elizabethton. He began practice
   in 1848, at Jonesboro, and the following year removed to Blountville.
   Since 1870 he has had a large practice at Bristol. During the war he
   was brigade surgeon of the First Confederate Tennessee Brigade. February
   12, 1852, he married AMANDA, the daughter of WILLIAM and JANE (RUTLEDGE)
   ANDERSON, and born in this county in 1831.  Her grandfather was the
   famous Gen. GEORGE RUTLEDGE, of King’s Mountain. Their children are
   HANNAH E. (now Mrs. M. THOMAS), GEORGE M. and WILLIAM T.


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