Andrew Jackson "Jack" Fanning (1824-1886). Jack Fanning was a younger brother of Tolbert Fanning. Jack taught a number of years in Franklin College. There is a good biographical sketch of his life in "Franklin College and Its Influences."

William Anderson wrote of Jack Fanning that he "was an independent thinker, a thoroughly practical man. He was the first to teach many of us--and, I am persuaded, the first to teach it to anybody--that rules are deductions from principles; that he who understands the principle has the rule."

The handwriting on the back of the card is by T. B. Larimore. I photographed this images in the Larimore house in October 2016 ... before it burned.

information and pictures supplied by Terry Gardner

Spouse: Susan Temperance Blackman (1827-1854), married August 24th, 1952, at Rutherford County, Tennessee – one daughter (Delpha) and one son (William)

Spouse: Minerva (1837-1865), married October 27th, 1855, at Montgomery, Tennessee – three sons (Cassius, Horace, Robert)

Spouse: Eleanor "Ellen" Roulac Hill (1842-1909), married August 19th, 1867, at Rutherford County, Tennessee – one daughter (Mary) and two sons (Tolbert, Paul)

Father: Jacob William "J. W." Fanning (1785-1857)

Mother: Nancy Bromley (1790-1834)

Occupation: teacher/minister/preacher for churches of Christ.

Information extracted from Ancestry by Ron Brewer

Andrew Jackson "Jack" Fanning (1824-1886). Jack Fanning was a younger brother of Tolbert Fanning. Jack taught a number of years in Franklin College. There is a good biographical sketch of his life in "Franklin College and Its Influences."

William Anderson wrote of Jack Fanning that he "was an independent thinker, a thoroughly practical man. He was the first to teach many of us--and, I am persuaded, the first to teach it to anybody--that rules are deductions from principles; that he who understands the principle has the rule."

The handwriting on the back of the card is by T. B. Larimore. I photographed this images in the Larimore house in October 2016 ... before it burned.

information and pictures supplied by Terry Gardner

Spouse: Susan Temperance Blackman (1827-1854), married August 24th, 1952, at Rutherford County, Tennessee – one daughter (Delpha) and one son (William)

Spouse: Minerva (1837-1865), married October 27th, 1855, at Montgomery, Tennessee – three sons (Cassius, Horace, Robert)

Spouse: Eleanor "Ellen" Roulac Hill (1842-1909), married August 19th, 1867, at Rutherford County, Tennessee – one daughter (Mary) and two sons (Tolbert, Paul)

Father: Jacob William "J. W." Fanning (1785-1857)

Mother: Nancy Bromley (1790-1834)

Occupation: teacher/minister/preacher for churches of Christ.

Information extracted from Ancestry by Ron Brewer