From the "Williamson County Historical Society Journal" number 29, 1998, page 61: "The provost marshall of Franklin Capt. Julius H. Alexander was a big, heavy-built man with a huge brogue and mutton-chop whiskers, and was the most universally hated officer ever at Franklin. During a skirmish near Franklin in June 1863, Miss Ida Figuers (now Mrs. Sam Moseley of near Columbia) and Miss Bethenia Word of Franklin, ran up a ravine north of (at Old Fair Grounds) his mother's place to seek shelter from the fire, at Mr. Wm. P. Campbell's house. Capt. Alexander thought these girls were conveying information to the Confederates, and had them arrested, marching them through the mud in the middle of the street as if common prisoners of war. Miss Ida Figuers was released that afternoon, through the tact of her mother, but Miss Word was kept imprisoned for a week."
From Goodspeed's Tennessee History page 943 "Hardin Perkins Figuers, of the firm of McKay & Figuers, was born at Franklin, Tenn., April 15, 1849, and was educated in the Carnton High School, from which institution he graduated in December, 1866. He then began teaching the "young idea" at Gum Springs, Williamson County, continuing until 1867. The following year he entered business life as clerk in the dry goods establishment of J.L. Parks, and there acquired a thorough knowledge of business life. In the early part of 1869 Mr. Figuers engaged in the newspaper business, becoming one of the editors and proprietors of the Franklin Review, the oldest weekly newspaper in the State. In January, 1872, he removed to Columbia and became one of the editors and proprietors of the Columbia Herald. Four year later he began editing the Columbia Journal. In 1875 he formed a law partnership with Mr. McKay, and is one of the most trusted and successful practitioners of the Maury County bar. He is an eloquent speaker and writer, and the author of the volume "Tennessee Manual of Chancery Pleadings and Practice", consisting of 700 pages, which has won high praise from all parts of the State. Mr. Figuers is a Mason (Knight Templar) and Worshipful Master of F. & A.M. December 4, 1873, he wedded Lily Dale, who has borne him one daughter. His parents, Thomas N. and Bethenia H. (Perkins) Figuers were natives of Williamson County, Tenn."