G. Mansfield
Lexington. The beautiful hills and vales that environ Lexington are familiar sights to Dr. G. Mansfield, who lives here. He was born Dec. 2, 1823, in a log cabin in the gloomy solitude of the forest, and Dr. Teagarden, famous in the county's annals, was the accoucher. Dr. Mansfield's parents first located four miles south of here at Langham's Mill in 1814. There was a camp of Indians near their cabin but they had not the natural savage instinct of the race to reek their hands in the blood of the invaders of their realm. His mother long used a butter ladle that was fashioned by the deft hands of an untutored son of the forest. She often sat alone in the cabin in the dreary solitude near the mill and with fast pulsating heart watched the trees sway that lined the banks of the stream as some bear swam under their wide spreading branches. It was in 1816 that his parents located east of Lexington and but two or three cabins had been reared in the town. Dr. Mansfield owns the farm on which he was born and he loves to worship at nature's shrine in the howling depths of the massive progeny of the forest.
From the Mansfield Semi-Weekly News: December 22, 1896, Vol. 12, No. 100