{"id":291,"date":"2013-05-03T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/?p=291"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:47:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:47:18","slug":"kemp-harry-one-hundred-and-twelve-years-old-1874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/kemp-harry-one-hundred-and-twelve-years-old-1874\/","title":{"rendered":"KEMP, Harry &#8211; One Hundred and Twelve Years Old (1874)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harry KEMP,<\/strong>\u00a0a negro man who lives at Hope Hill, in this county, was in town Tuesday and bought a pair of shoes from Mr. MCKELVY. \u00a0Harry is one hundred and twelve years old, is able to pick cotton and do \u00a0a great\u00a0deal of farm work. \u00a0He remembers the revolutionary war very distinctly, and, judging from his looks, is good for several years more yet.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<i>The Milan exchange.<\/i>\u00a0(Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.), 12 March 1874.\u00a0<i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/i>. Lib. of Congress. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn86053488\/1874-03-12\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\">http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn86053488\/1874-03-12\/ed-1\/seq-3\/<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry KEMP,\u00a0a negro man who lives at Hope Hill, in this county, was in town Tuesday and bought a pair of shoes from Mr. MCKELVY. \u00a0Harry is one hundred and twelve years old, is able to pick cotton and do <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/kemp-harry-one-hundred-and-twelve-years-old-1874\/\"><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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-newsextracts","tag-kemp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/gibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}