Individual Details
Judge Robert Cantrell
(November 9, 1832 - February 9, 1903)
1860 DeKalb County, Tennessee census.
"Robert Cantrell was born November 9, 1823 in Warren County, Tennessee. He married Martha Magness, daughter of Perry G. and Mary Cantrell Magness, December 23, 1846. She was born December 15, 1831 and died March 1, 1897.
"During the Civil War, Robert organized a company at Smithville, Tennessee, of which he became captain. He later served as colonel. He was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and, afterward, not being able to serve actively on the field, served as commissary.
"Judge Cantrell and his wife celebrated their Golden Wedding, December 23, 1896, upon which memorable occasion their eight living children, with all their families were present.
"The following excerpts are from a local paper of Lebanon, Tennessee where Judge Cantrell died February 9, 1903. "... Commencing life a poor boy, he worked, by strict attention to his professional duties to the topmost round in the legal profession in Tennessee. He was twice honored by the people of the Judicial circuit and in his judicial career was proverbial for tempering justice with mercy. ... In private life no object of charity ever appealed to him in vain. His domestic life was one continued ray of sunshine. ... He was admitted to the bar in 1849, and came to Lebanon in 1866, remaining in our midst from that time until his death. In the fullest sense of the phrase he was a self-made man. In early life he had almost none of the advantages now so accessible to a young man of ambition. ... He acquired a rudimentary knowledge of the law under the most adverse circumstances. ... Judge Cantrell was not discouraged by the difficulties then common to young men choosing the law as a profession to the day of his death. To such a degree was this true, that it became the subject of common remark among his friends and gentlemen of the profession. Such tenacity and fixedness of purpose, which characterized his whole life, was followed by most natural results. He became a successful practitioner, ranked as one of the best lawyers of the state and for sixteen years served with distinction upon the bench. He represented De Kalb County in the Legislature. ... As a citizen he was generous, helpful, public spirited and always found upon the moral side of every question. He demonstrated, as others have before in this community, that a lawyer may also be an exemplary Christian. ... He was a member of the Methodist church." (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908, by Susan Cantrill Christie, page 86.)
"Robert Cantrell was born November 9, 1823 in Warren County, Tennessee. He married Martha Magness, daughter of Perry G. and Mary Cantrell Magness, December 23, 1846. She was born December 15, 1831 and died March 1, 1897.
"During the Civil War, Robert organized a company at Smithville, Tennessee, of which he became captain. He later served as colonel. He was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and, afterward, not being able to serve actively on the field, served as commissary.
"Judge Cantrell and his wife celebrated their Golden Wedding, December 23, 1896, upon which memorable occasion their eight living children, with all their families were present.
"The following excerpts are from a local paper of Lebanon, Tennessee where Judge Cantrell died February 9, 1903. "... Commencing life a poor boy, he worked, by strict attention to his professional duties to the topmost round in the legal profession in Tennessee. He was twice honored by the people of the Judicial circuit and in his judicial career was proverbial for tempering justice with mercy. ... In private life no object of charity ever appealed to him in vain. His domestic life was one continued ray of sunshine. ... He was admitted to the bar in 1849, and came to Lebanon in 1866, remaining in our midst from that time until his death. In the fullest sense of the phrase he was a self-made man. In early life he had almost none of the advantages now so accessible to a young man of ambition. ... He acquired a rudimentary knowledge of the law under the most adverse circumstances. ... Judge Cantrell was not discouraged by the difficulties then common to young men choosing the law as a profession to the day of his death. To such a degree was this true, that it became the subject of common remark among his friends and gentlemen of the profession. Such tenacity and fixedness of purpose, which characterized his whole life, was followed by most natural results. He became a successful practitioner, ranked as one of the best lawyers of the state and for sixteen years served with distinction upon the bench. He represented De Kalb County in the Legislature. ... As a citizen he was generous, helpful, public spirited and always found upon the moral side of every question. He demonstrated, as others have before in this community, that a lawyer may also be an exemplary Christian. ... He was a member of the Methodist church." (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908, by Susan Cantrill Christie, page 86.)
Events
| Birth | November 9, 1832 | Warren County, Tennessee | |||
| Marriage | December 23, 1846 | DeKalb County, Tennessee - Martha Magness | |||
| Death | February 9, 1903 | Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee |
Families
| Spouse | Martha Magness (1831 - 1897) |
| Child | Mary J. Cantrell (1847 - ) |
| Child | LeRoy M. Cantrell (1849 - ) |
| Child | Nancy Cantrell (1851 - ) |
| Child | Kate Cantrell (1851 - ) |
| Child | Harriet Potter Cantrell (1853 - ) |
| Child | Andrew J. Cantrell (1855 - ) |
| Child | William Magness Cantrell (1855 - ) |
| Child | Larkin Cantrell (1857 - 1860) |
| Child | Robert Lee Cantrell (1863 - ) |
| Child | Balie Peyton Cantrell (1866 - ) |
| Child | Minnie Cantrell (1869 - ) |
| Child | Mattie Cantrell (1874 - ) |
| Father | Isaac Cantrell (1782 - 1840) |
| Mother | Nancy Adcock (1790 - 1872) |
| Sibling | Leonard Cantrell (1811 - ) |
| Sibling | Isaac Cantrell ( - 1865) |
| Sibling | Eleander "Nellie" Cantrell ( - ) |
| Sibling | Jane Cantrell ( - ) |