William H. Croom, a prominent citizen and farmer of Madison County, was born October 11, 1822, in Wayne County, N.C., and is one of eight sons and three daughters born to Charles and Siveal (Hines) Croom, our subject, six brothers and one sister, being the surviving members. The parents were married in their native place, Wayne County, N.C., and farmed there till they came to Madison County, Tenn., about 1827, and continued agricultural pursuits in this county until their deaths in 1863 and 1885, respectively. In 1839 our subject was married, and began farming on a tract of land in this county, given him by his father, but in 1861 located on his present home place of 655 acres, one mile south of Pinson, which he has well improved, and is in an excellent state of cultivation. At the commencement of the war he enlisted in the Thirteenth Tennessee Confederate Infantry, and served until 1864, when he was discharged, and has since devoted his attention to the cultivation and improvement of his farm. Our subject married, for his first wife, Caroline Carrington, native of this county, to whom four sons and two daughters were born. One of the sons died in the hospital at Atlanta, Ga., during the war (1863), and another is also deceased, while of the two living, one resides in Madison County, and the other in Arkansas. The daughters are both living. The mother of these children died about 1858, and he afterward married Virginia A. Anderson, a native also of this county, and to whom four sons and two daughters have been born, all still living, three of the sons residing in Arkansas, and the other in Mississippi, while the daughters are both at home. Mr. Croom is identified with the Democratic party. Mrs. Croom and family are members of the Methodist Church.

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