D.W. Remine, a farmer in the Fifteenth District, was born in 1887 [sic] in Virginia, and came to this locality in 1847, where he has since resided. He received his education at Limestone Academy and Tusculum College. When eleven years of age he was thrown upon his own resources, a poor boy, and has followed f arming ever since. He was married in 1858 to Miss Phoebe Keizel, daughter of Enos Keizel, a native of Rockingham County, Va., who came to Washington County in 1856. To this union has been born fourteen children: Fannie L., Rebecca, Calvin K., Edward E. (deceased), Mollie E., Schuyler Colfax, Minnie B., Horace Maynard, Lummie Lynn, Carrie Bays, Frederick Fuller, Bell Carter, Annie Lee and Kate. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Remine is a Republican in politics and a prohibitionist in principle, a Good Templar, and a Son of Temperance. He is the third of seven children born to Hiram and Nancy (Bays) Remine, natives of Virginia. Ile was a soldier in the late war, and was captured and detained in Castle Thunder, Libby, Abingdon, Jonesboro, Greeneville and Knoxville prisons on account of his views on Abolitionism, he being a pronounced Abolitionist, and very bold in declaring his views. Three of his sons were soldiers in the United States Army. He is a son of William H. Remine, a native of Tazewell County, Va., and was a stock dealer and distiller. He was justice of the peace for many years. Mrs. Nancy Remine was a daughter of James and Ruth Bays, either natives of or very early settlers in Russell County, Va. Mr. Bays was a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Bays Mountain took its name from this family, they being noted as great hunters. They have furnished a great number of very, excellent and able ministers.
