{"id":197,"date":"2013-05-30T23:50:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/?p=197"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:43:53","slug":"burnett-joshua-e-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/burnett-joshua-e-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BURNETT, Joshua E."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joshua E. BURNETT<\/strong>, farmer and stock raiser of Fayette County, was born in Iredell County, N.C., August 17, 1834, and is a son of Jeremiah and Mary (Ellis) BURNETT.\u00a0 The father was born in South Carolina, September 18, 1807, and is now seventy-six years old.\u00a0 They moved to Tennessee in 1849 and settled twelve miles south of Somerville; two years later they moved three miles further north where they have since lived.\u00a0 The father has always been a farmer; he is\u00a0 a Democrat.\u00a0 And both parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 December 22, 1886, this aged couple celebrated their golden wedding, and over 500 relatives and friends were present.\u00a0 Our subject is the second born of ten children;\u00a0 after finishing his education he commenced farming.\u00a0 In the spring of 1861 he entered the Confederate Army, and enlisted in Company B., Thirteenth Tennessee Regiment, known as the \u201cMacon Grays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph GRANBERRY<\/strong> was captain and <strong>John V. WRIGHT,<\/strong> first colonel.\u00a0 Our subject was changed into Cheatham\u2019s division and remained in service until the end, though a year before the war closed he was changed to FORREST\u2019s calvary; he was in several hard-fought battles: Belmont Mo., Shiloh, Richmond and Perryville, Ky., Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge; he was surrendered at Memphis in the spring of 1865 and returned home after an absences of four years and resumed farming.\u00a0 March 22, 1865, he married <strong>Miss Adelia GARVIN<\/strong>, born in Fayette County, June 5, 1841.\u00a0 Five sons and four daughters have been born to them; two sons are dead.\u00a0 In 1866 with the assistance of his father he bought the farm where he now lives, but has greatly increased it, now owning over 1,100 acres of good land in Fayette County.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Mr. BURNETT<\/strong> is a Democrat, and with his wife and three children belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 He is a generous man and one of strict integrity.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: \u00a0Goodspeed\u2019s History of Tennessee, 1887.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua E. BURNETT, farmer and stock raiser of Fayette County, was born in Iredell County, N.C., August 17, 1834, and is a son of Jeremiah and Mary (Ellis) BURNETT.\u00a0 The father was born in South Carolina, September 18, 1807, and is now seventy-six years old.\u00a0 They moved to Tennessee in 1849 and settled twelve miles south of Somerville; two years later they moved three miles further north where they have since lived.\u00a0 The father has always been a farmer; he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/burnett-joshua-e-2\/\"> 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":[1],"tags":[38,39,53,54],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-burnett","tag-garvin","tag-granberry","tag-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}