Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-17

being sister Of Mrs. Gen. Andrew
jackson.
Soon after his marriage. he located
his residence on the hill NOri n Of Jack
son. In 1892 re bulls the house now
occupied as a residence by John ,. Mil
ler, and afterwards sold this property
10 his brother-in-law, Gen. Samuel J.
Hayes, In 1928 he was apPoiRted Post
Master. In 1885, 9th his two broth
ers-in-law; DF. W. E. Butler and Gen.
Hays, he made visit TO Texas, but the
Revolution prevented 4 removal, and
they returned TO jackson IN 1886. In
this year he,was reapPOintCd Post-Mas-
ter and Deputy Register Of the Land
Office, in which there was then
much business. In 1897 the L. 5.
Court was established at Jackson, and
he was appointed L. 5. Marshal, Nor
gan Brown, of Nashville, being Dis
trict Judge and James L. Talbot, Clerk,
John Cairon being Circuit Judge He
discharged the duties of Marshal to-l
the satisfaction of the people of the
IS counties comprising the Federal
District of West Tennessee, until the
election and Inauguration OF General
Taylor, He was again appointed to
the same Office by President Pierce,
and held il until james Buchauan's
Administration. In November, 1871,
death entered his home, shadowing his
hearth by the uRtimely demise of his
wife. He raised family Of seven chill
dren, of whom four sons survive. On
the 22d of Jan'y, 1855, he married Mrs
Jane p. DOnelsOn, widow of Or. SamI
DOnelsOn, and daughter of Col. David
ROyster, Of GOochland County, Va.
In 1895 Gen. Thomas J. Green of the
Texan Army, made him n colonel, with
authority to raise a regiment, which he
proceeded to, but the battle of San Ja-
cintO superseded the necessity of it.
After his retiring from the Office of L.
5. Marshal, upon the accession of Pres
ident Taylor, he became a partner in
the practice of law with Rudge Hays,
Esq, at Jackson, aud continued with
him until his reappointment 10 the
Marshalship by President Pierce.
Colonel Chester has been engaged in
planting, and otherwise actively iden-
titled with the business Of Madison
County and West Tennessee On more
than one occasion he has served this
county as a representative IN the State
lGSlS1atu 4lS Is an GlQEE IN LEle res
byterian church, and a mem ber of the
Masonic Order. We thus summarize
the main facts Of his life, as far as we
know them, and publish them, not as
matters of mere biography, but rs iRci-
dents Of personal history, interviewer
with the pioneer annals Of our State
and County. Sketches OF such mems
lives become the exponents of an
epoch, reS1ving the rugged graHdeurss
Of the past, waen war, and adventure.
aud the hardships OF ordinary life,
made the materials of the great epic of
the West and South, in which men
like Jackson and Houston were the ru-
ling spirits. Colonel Chester is a resi-
dent of our city, and at the age Of near
ly 81 years, realms his physical and
mental energies in a remarkable de
gree. Not a mist Of dotage dims the
mirror Of his intellect, and no decrepi-
tude embarrasses him rs lie moves in
our midst. There Is a chcerfulness in
his bland and affIbls manner that con-
ciliates al, and the promise of length
ened lease of life seems to inhere in a
green old age, whose siOping sun goes
dOwR like the long light Of 4 summer
day