Mr. James Monroe Avent is the senior member of a well-known law firm of Avent, Smith, & Avent and it may be justly said that he has contributed largely to the success and high standing of this firm at the Rutherford County bar.
On February 27, 1857, he married Mary Williams Childress, the daughter of the late Major John Whitsett Childress, of this county.
He is a Democrat of the old "Jacksonian school," and has always been an active and zealous worker for his party, but never aspired to office. He has frequently been appointed judge pro tem of our courts, and discharged the duties of this highly responsible position in a manner that indicated his superior qualities as a jurist. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and has been identified with all public and private enterprises that were calculated to promote the prosperity of the city and county.
He was one of the organizers of the Stone's River Creamery Company, of which he is now president. Himself and wife have been life-long members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is justly and universally recognized as one among the leading and successful citizens of our county, a lawyer of fine judgement and ability and a consistent Christian gentlemen.
Source - The Goodspeed History of Rutherford County, dated 1886.
On February 27, 1857, he married Mary Williams Childress, the daughter of the late Major John Whitsett Childress, of this county.
He is a Democrat of the old "Jacksonian school," and has always been an active and zealous worker for his party, but never aspired to office. He has frequently been appointed judge pro tem of our courts, and discharged the duties of this highly responsible position in a manner that indicated his superior qualities as a jurist. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and has been identified with all public and private enterprises that were calculated to promote the prosperity of the city and county.
He was one of the organizers of the Stone's River Creamery Company, of which he is now president. Himself and wife have been life-long members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is justly and universally recognized as one among the leading and successful citizens of our county, a lawyer of fine judgement and ability and a consistent Christian gentlemen.
Source - The Goodspeed History of Rutherford County, dated 1886.
Mr. James Monroe Avent is the senior member of a well-known law firm of Avent, Smith, & Avent and it may be justly said that he has contributed largely to the success and high standing of this firm at the Rutherford County bar.
On February 27, 1857, he married Mary Williams Childress, the daughter of the late Major John Whitsett Childress, of this county.
He is a Democrat of the old "Jacksonian school," and has always been an active and zealous worker for his party, but never aspired to office. He has frequently been appointed judge pro tem of our courts, and discharged the duties of this highly responsible position in a manner that indicated his superior qualities as a jurist. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and has been identified with all public and private enterprises that were calculated to promote the prosperity of the city and county.
He was one of the organizers of the Stone's River Creamery Company, of which he is now president. Himself and wife have been life-long members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is justly and universally recognized as one among the leading and successful citizens of our county, a lawyer of fine judgement and ability and a consistent Christian gentlemen.
Source - The Goodspeed History of Rutherford County, dated 1886.
On February 27, 1857, he married Mary Williams Childress, the daughter of the late Major John Whitsett Childress, of this county.
He is a Democrat of the old "Jacksonian school," and has always been an active and zealous worker for his party, but never aspired to office. He has frequently been appointed judge pro tem of our courts, and discharged the duties of this highly responsible position in a manner that indicated his superior qualities as a jurist. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and has been identified with all public and private enterprises that were calculated to promote the prosperity of the city and county.
He was one of the organizers of the Stone's River Creamery Company, of which he is now president. Himself and wife have been life-long members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is justly and universally recognized as one among the leading and successful citizens of our county, a lawyer of fine judgement and ability and a consistent Christian gentlemen.
Source - The Goodspeed History of Rutherford County, dated 1886.
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