Edward S. Cheatham

Birth Date

c1818

Death Date

c1878

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Robertson County, Tennessee, railroad executive and politician. Tennessee native. Son of Richard Cheatham and Susan Sanders Cheatham. Married Jane Elenor Foster in Davidson County, Tennessee, on October 19, 1841. Father of R. A. Cheatham, Susan Cheatham, and J. E. Cheatham. Married to C. C. Cheatham in 1860. Owner of E. S. Cheatham and Company grocery store. Merchant in Robertson County in 1850. Member of Tennessee State House of Representatives between 1853 and 1855. Member of Tennessee State Senate from 1855 to 1857. Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate from 1855 to 1857. President of Louisville and Nashville Railroad company in Robertson County in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Robertson County in 1860. Member of Tennessee State Senate from 1861 to 1865. Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate from 1861 to 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Robertson County, District 9, pp. 134-35.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Robertson County, Murfreesboro, p. 281.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Rutherford County, Murfreesboro, p. 74.
Tennessee Marriage Records, Tennessee State Library and Records, Nashville, Tennessee, Davidson County 1838-1864 Marriages, p. 132.
Lawrence Kestenbaum, "The Political Graveyard," http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12961.html.
National Register of Historic Places, Mansfield-Cheatham House, Springfield, Robertson County, Tennessee, National Register #78002626

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