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Alfred Bearden was born in 1811 in South Carolina and became a farmer, a renowned gunsmith, and a Past Master of Andrew Jackson Lodge #68 F & AM. He was the grandson of Revolutionary War veteran John Bearden, Sr. In 1831 he married Margaret Downing. He is buried at this site with four of their eleven children, including two who served in the 8th Tennessee Infantry Reg't during the War Between the States, among them his son, Captain N. M. Bearden, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Stones River on Dec. 31, 1862.
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