{"id":278,"date":"2013-05-27T17:18:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T21:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/?p=278"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:24:35","slug":"burns-james-thomas-b-1849","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/burns-james-thomas-b-1849\/","title":{"rendered":"BURNS, James Thomas (b. 1849)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie<\/p>\n<p><strong>BURNS, James Thomas<\/strong>, retail merchant; born near McLemoresville, Tenn., May 5, 1849; son of\u00a0<strong>John and Margaret (Patton) BURNS<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents,\u00a0<strong>Richard and \u2014\u2014- (Newbill) BURNS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents\u00a0<strong>William and Mary (Wright) PATTON<\/strong>; educated at Bethel College, McLemoresville, Tenn., and University of Miss.; worked on farm until 1871, entered the mercantile business in 1875 at Trezevant, Tenn.; married\u00a0<strong>Mary Lee HARRIS<\/strong>, March 27, 1878; member of Knights of Pythias, and United Order of the Golden Cross; Democrat; Vice Pres. and Gen. Mgr. of the Moore &amp; Burns Co., General Merchandise, McKenzie, Tenn.; member of Presbyterian church, U.S.A<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<i>Who&#8217;s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie BURNS, James Thomas, retail merchant; born near McLemoresville, Tenn., May 5, 1849; son of\u00a0John and Margaret (Patton) BURNS; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents,\u00a0Richard and \u2014\u2014- (Newbill) BURNS, maternal grandparents\u00a0William and Mary (Wright) PATTON; educated at Bethel College, McLemoresville, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/burns-james-thomas-b-1849\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,78,38],"tags":[80,82,13,81,24],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-mckenzie","category-trezevant","tag-burns","tag-harris","tag-newbill","tag-patton","tag-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}