Loughry Family of Tennessee History
First row (left to right): Ed Cannon Loughry, Sr.;
Edward Everett Loughry; Sallie Donnell Loughry; Gershom Jones Loughry
Second Row: Joseph Donnell Loughry;
Mary Jones Loughry; Robert Bass; Sara Christine Loughry; Johnnie Bass;
Lida Lee Loughry; Bessie Cannon Loughry; Lida
Bass; Loughry Bass (1931)
Joseph Nelson Loughry
came to Tennessee
in 1849 from Blairsville, Pennsylvania. I believe Joseph Nelson
Loughry is a descendant of Jeremiah Lockery who immigrated to the United State
from Derry County, Ireland around 1730. The following
is my research on the Loughry family in Tennessee
and Pennsylvania.
Joseph Nelson Loughry was born in Blairsville, PA
on March 28, 1826.
He was the son of Col. William Loughry and Mary Chambers Loughry. Joseph
graduated from Washington
College in 1848. Washington College is now Washington & Jefferson College
located in Washington, PA. After graduation J.N. Loughry served as
principal at Lascassas
Academy in Rutherford
County, TN. From 1850 - 1851 he attended Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ.
During this time he wrote several letters back to his fiancée Adriana A. Brown
in Lascassas, TN. She was the daughter of John Brown, Jr.
and Margaret Gilliam Brown. Following Joseph’s graduation from seminary he
returned to Rutherford County, TN where he and Adriana were married on April 17, 1851. He was also
licensed to preach in April 1851by the McMinnville Presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church and was ordained by the same body one year later in April
1852. Joseph served as principal of Stones
River Academy
in Lascassas, TN from 1851 to 1854, President of Green
River Female Academy in Elkton,
KY from 1854 to 1858, and Magnolia Academy in TN in 1860. He also preached
in the Lascassas Church from 1858 to 1863, Murfreesboro Church from 1863 to 1865, and Lascassas Church from 1865 to 1892. Joseph Nelson
Loughry authored a book in 1888 titled "Christology". His wife
Adriana A. Brown died on October
10, 1877. He remarried Susan C. Bethel daughter of Rev. Hugh
Lansdon near Milton, TN in February 1880. Mrs. Susan Bethel
Loughry died on Sept 6, 1891.
Joseph Nelson Loughry died of Tuberculosis on his farm in Lascassas, TN
on October 11, 1896.
Descendants of Jeremiah Lockery
My Family Genealogy
Genealogist Report on Parents of Joseph Nelson Loughry
Notebook
Entry from Joseph Nelson Loughry
Alumni
Catalogue of Washington College
Alumni
Questionnaire for Princeton Theological Seminary
Obituary for Walter Eldridge Loughry
Family
Photo Album
Loughry Family of Ohio History
Edwin Cannon Loughry, III
(3rd
great-grandson of Joseph Nelson Loughry)
Murfreesboro, TN
cannon.loughry@cavb.com