John Goff Ballentine Sr.
Born: May 20, 1825
Birthplace: Pulaski, Tennessee
Father: Andrew Mitchell Ballentine 1791 – 1863
(Buried: Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Tennessee)
Mother: Mary Tuttle Goff 1805 – 1890
(Buried: Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Tennessee)
Wife: Mary Elizabeth Laird 1832 – 1917
(Buried: Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Tennessee)
Children:
Sallie Leverette Ballentine 1856 – 1944
(Buried: Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Tennessee)
John Goff Ballentine Jr. 1863 – 1919
(Buried: Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Tennessee)
Adelaide Ballentine 1868 – 1950
(Buried: Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Tennessee)
Margaret Palmer Ballentine 1870 – 1871
(Buried: Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Tennessee)
Andrew Mitchell Ballentine 1873 – 1943
(Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Sardis, Mississippi)
Education:
1845: Graduated from University of Nashville
1848: Graduated from Harvard University Law School
Occupation before War:
Faculty Member at Livingston Law School
Attorney in Pulaski & Memphis, Tennessee – Sardis, Mississippi
Civil War Career:
1861: Private of Company C, 7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment
1861: Captain of Company C, 7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment
1862 – 1865: Colonel of Ballentine's Mississippi Cavalry
1864: Wounded during the Atlanta Campaign
1865: Paroled in Memphis, Tennessee
Occupation after War:
Attorney in Pulaski, Tennessee
1883 – 1887: United States Congressman from Tennessee
Died: November 23, 1915
Place of Death: Pulaski, Tennessee
Age at time of Death: 90 years old
Burial Place: Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Tennessee