John Maddox

John was born in 1830 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   John's father was Thomas Maddox and his mother was Fanny Robinson.  His paternal grandparents were Jacob Maddox and Sarah Morrow. He had four brothers and six sisters, named William Hamilton, Jacob Hamilton, James, Robert, Anne, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, Lucy and Catherine.  He was the fourth oldest of the eleven children.