T. P. Pulliam, a well known farmer of Hardeman County, is a native of Montgomery County, N.C., born October 6. 1822, was the sixth of sixteen children born to Silas and Sarah (Morgan) Pulliam. Both were natives of Montgomery County, N.C., where they were married. In 1837, they immigrated to Tennessee and settled in Hardeman County. This father, who was a farmer, was a Democrat in politics and was born in 1787 and died in Hardeman County December 4, 1873, a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The mother, who was several years younger than the father, was a devout member of the same church as her husband; she died in about 1862. T. P. secured by his own efforts, a good academicals education and at an early day began farming. At the age of fifteen he came with his parents to Hardeman County, and except about six years spent elsewhere, he has made this his home ever since. In 1874, he settled where he now lives, sixteen miles southwest of Bolivar. Mr. Pulliam has been a man of unusual energy all his life and has been very successful as a planter. He began life poor but with a good name, and by industry and economy has secured a fine competency. Although he lost considerable by the late war, he yet owns, clear of all encumbrances, upward of 800 acres of good land in his county. December 19, 1854, he married Mrs. Martha J. (Reagan) Hinson, a native of Hardeman County, born April 6, 1828. They are the parents of nine children, five now living. Mr. Pulliam is a stanch Democrat and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mrs. Pulhiam and three children are members of the same church.
Source: “The Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Tennessee, 1886”