{"id":311,"date":"2012-10-24T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T04:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/?p=311"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:50:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:50:56","slug":"ballentine-andrew-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/ballentine-andrew-j\/","title":{"rendered":"BALLENTINE, Andrew J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANDREW J. BALLENTINE<\/strong>, farmer of Giles County, Tenn., was born in Pulaski, December 30, 1834, and is the fifth child born to the union of\u00a0<strong>Andrew M. and Mary Ballentine<\/strong>. He received a liberal education in the Wurtemburg Academy and at the age of nineteen began clerking in his father&#8217;s dry goods store, in Pulaski. He remained in this capacity a number of years and then began farming, which was interrupted by the breaking out of the war. He joined Gen. Logwood&#8217;s Battalion of Cavalry, but was soon transferred to Gen. Gordon&#8217;s staff. After the war he again began farming and has followed that and merchandising up to the present time. In 1869, he wedded\u00a0<strong>Amanda Kennedy<\/strong>, daughter of\u00a0<strong>John and Pattie Kennedy<\/strong>, natives of New York.\u00a0<strong>Mr. and Mrs. Ballentine<\/strong>\u00a0have four children:\u00a0<strong>Orlean, Sallie W., Hick and Lady. Mr. Ballentine<\/strong>\u00a0gives considerable attention to fine stock raising, and owns some fine land south and north of Pulaski, both portions being well improved.\u00a0<strong>Mr. Ballentine<\/strong>\u00a0is a Democrat, and of Irish descent. (Goodspeed&#8217;s<em>History of Giles County<\/em>, 1886)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDREW J. BALLENTINE, farmer of Giles County, Tenn., was born in Pulaski, December 30, 1834, and is the fifth child born to the union of\u00a0Andrew M. and Mary Ballentine. He received a liberal education in the Wurtemburg Academy and at <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/ballentine-andrew-j\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[10],"tags":[71,74],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-ballentine","tag-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}