To Dr. and Mrs. Whitwell were born two daughters: Nora, who be-
came the wife of C. M. Paxton and died in 1909, at the age of thirty-
three, and Cora, whose husband is Andrew Raspbury, an interested
principal in the mercantile firm of Rasbury & Warren at Hohenwald.
Dr. and Mrs. Whitwell are both members of the Christi?in church and
the former is an elder of that denomination.
Walker W. O'Guin. For three generations at least the O'Guin
family has been identified with the fortunes and aflfairs of Hickman
county, Tennessee. Thomas O'Guin, the grandfather of the subject of



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this sketch, was born in the county, there grew to manhood, married, and
became a prominent farmer. When the Civil war broke out he cast
his lot with the Southern Confederacy and entered the army as a
private soldier. Exposure and hardship incident to military life so
impaired his health that he died of tuberculosis soon after being dis-
<;harged from the service, leaving two sons, the younger of which, Sidney
L. O'Guin, was born near Whitfield, Hickman county, in April, 1863.
In 1884, S. L. O'Guin and Sarah Coble were united in marriage in
Lewis county, Tennessee, though she is a native of Hickman county,
where she was bom in 1856. Three children have been born of this
xmion — ^Walker W., Alden and Marvin — the first named in Lewis county
and the other two in Hickman county. In early life S. L. O/Guin fol-
lowed the vocation of a farmer, but later engaged in mercantile pursuits.
