David C. Kent, a citizen of Pulaski county, who was faithful to the Confederate cause during the years of trial from 1861 to 1865, was born in that countv May 3, 1833. He was married in 1854, to Elizabeth Ligon, of Petersburg, by whom he had thirteen children. When volunteers were called for in defense of the State from invasion he offered his services, and enlisted, but, upon examination was found to be incapacitated for service on account of inflammatory rheumatism. On this account he was discharged. He then engaged actively in the production of lumber and other supplies for the Confederate government, and thus continued during the entire period of the war. His work in this line was so extensive that at the close the government was indebted to him in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. This large sum, mainly on account of advancements that he had made for labor, was of course, an entire loss, so that he can - truly be said to have adequately shared in the suffering and deprivation which the unhappy result of the struggle brought to the people of the South. One of his sons, James Ligon Kent, born August 27, 1867, is now a promising young physician of Pulaski City. He attended the session of 1887 to 1889 at the university of Virginia and graduated at Bellevue Hospital medical college, New York, in 1890, and took a post-graduate course at the New York Polyclinc in 1897. He is meeting with marked success in the treatment of the special diseases of the nose and throat to which he mainly devotes his attention.
Confederate Military History, pp. 979-980.
