{"id":172,"date":"2013-05-18T23:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T04:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/?p=172"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:43:53","slug":"nesbitt-robert-n-d-1867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/nesbitt-robert-n-d-1867\/","title":{"rendered":"NESBITT, Robert N. (d. 1867)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Memphis Daily Appeal<\/em><br \/>\nOctober 25, 1867<\/p>\n<p>Died, in Somerville, Tennessee on the 15th instant, after an illness of about ten days, <strong>Robert N. NESBITT<\/strong>, Esq., in the forty second year of his age. \u00a0He was the oldest born citizen of that place. \u00a0His father, <strong>Nathan NESBITT<\/strong>, was one of the first settlers of the town, and kept one of the first hotels, which was situation on the north east corner of the square, where now stands the brick hotel. \u00a0The building was burned down many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Robert was born on the 26th of\u00a0September, 1826. \u00a0His father died while he was an infant, and his mother died some years afterward, leaving him but a youth. \u00a0He was a practical printer, having learned the business in the office of the<em> Somerville Reporter<\/em>, with <strong>John C. REEVES,<\/strong> Esq. \u00a0He afterward read law, and was admitted to the bar. \u00a0He filled several responsible positions of trust in the county; was for sometime Chairman of the County Court. \u00a0He was a man f fair order of intellect, quick perception, and possessed fine conversational powers. \u00a0He had many warm \u00a0friends who will regret his death. \u00a0He leaves a widow and two small children, and an only sister, to mourn his loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Daily Appeal October 25, 1867 Died, in Somerville, Tennessee on the 15th instant, after an illness of about ten days, Robert N. NESBITT, Esq., in the forty second year of his age. \u00a0He was the oldest born citizen of that place. \u00a0His father, Nathan NESBITT, was one of the first settlers of the town, and kept one of the first hotels, which was situation on the north east corner of the square, where now stands the brick hotel. \u00a0The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/nesbitt-robert-n-d-1867\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":[40],"tags":[46,47],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary","tag-nesbitt","tag-reeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}