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Charles Westerman settles in Fairview
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Charles Wesley Westerman moved around quite a bit before ultimately settling down in Wilson County a few years after the Civil War. Among many things, he was a farmer, soldier, wagoner, lawman, churchman, and builder, whose story was researched and compiled by his great-great-granddaughter, Margie Hayden of Fairview. Charles was born April 18, 1834, in Lincoln County, Tenn., two months after his father was shot and killed in a case of mistaken identity. Subsequently, his mother moved herself and her five children along with her late husband’s brother and his family to Red River County on the northeast Texas border....