by McNairy County Admin | Jan 18, 2025 | McNairy County Sheriff
Term: 1836-1838 Notes: Born in Ireland in 1807. He became sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, in the 1830s. He fought a two-hours bare-knuckles fight in a horse pasture outside Purdy with a Joel Rowark whom he had wrongfully arrested for horse-stealing and the...
