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- ↑ Lester, Connie L. (2006). Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers' Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-8203-3080-8 . Retrieved 22 August 2022.
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- ↑ Caldwell, Joshua W. (1898). Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tenn.: Ogden Brothers & Co. p. 365. ISBN 9781404706934 . Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ↑ Polk, William R. (2001). Polk's Folly - An American Family History. New York: Anchor Books. pp. 338–340. ISBN 0-385-49151-4 . Retrieved 22 August 2022.
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- ↑ "Lucky Frenchman Has Won the Love of Gladys Deacon: After the Affairs of a Smitten Prince and a Duke "Turned Down," Comes the Triumph of Young Baron de Charette, And Another International Romance Is Launched". Palestine Daily Herald. 13 April 1908. p. 6. Retrieved July 10, 2015– via Newspapers.com.
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