{"id":1002,"date":"2015-09-21T22:28:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:38","slug":"w-e-a-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/w-e-a-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMPSON, W.E.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>W. E. A. THOMPSON, A. B.<\/strong>, a native of Bedford County, Tenn., was born Nov. 28, 1848.\u00a0 His father was a licensed preacher in the Methodist Church, but having an affection of the throat was obliged to give up his ministerial duties and engage in farming.\u00a0 His mother was <strong>Ellen C. (Williams) Thompson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our subject remained with his parents on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, attending school when he could be conveniently spared from the farm.\u00a0 In the fall of 1869 he taught school at Mount Zion, Bedford County, and in 1870 clerked in a dry goods house at Unionville.\u00a0 The spring of 1871 he spent in school at Chapel Hill and spent the fall at Unionville in the same manner.\u00a0 Early in 1872 he entered the Tennessee University, where he graduated in 1874 with the degree of A. B.\u00a0 He chose teaching as his profession and began work at Unionville, his native village.\u00a0 In the summer of 1875 he left Unionville and taught five months at Middleton, Rutherford County.\u00a0 In the spring of 1876 he accepted the principalship of the Center Grove High School, where he is engaged at the present writing.<\/p>\n<p>December 26, 1876, he wedded <strong>Nannie Floyd<\/strong>, of this county, and by her became the father of four children:\u00a0 <strong>Benjamin H., Mary G., Annie E. and Ellen F<\/strong>.\u00a0 Our subject is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and is a man of good social standing and influence in this section.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W. E. A. THOMPSON, A. B., a native of Bedford County, Tenn., was born Nov. 28, 1848.\u00a0 His father was a licensed preacher in the Methodist Church, but having an affection of the throat was obliged to give up his ministerial duties and engage in farming.\u00a0 His mother was Ellen C. (Williams) Thompson. Our subject &#8230; <a title=\"THOMPSON, W.E.A.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/w-e-a-thompson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about THOMPSON, W.E.A.\">Read more<\/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":[41,218],"tags":[3368,3371,3369,3372,3370,3366,3367],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-university-of-tennessee","tag-floyd-nannie","tag-thompson-annie-e","tag-thompson-benjamin-h","tag-thompson-ellen-f","tag-thompson-mary-g","tag-thompson-w-e-a","tag-williams-ellen-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}