{"id":1004,"date":"2015-09-21T22:30:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:38","slug":"zach-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/zach-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMPSON, Zach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ZACH THOMPSON<\/strong> was born July 7, 1844, at Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tenn.\u00a0 His father,<strong> Col. Robert E. Thompson,<\/strong> is a native of Bedford County, Tenn., born in 1822 and of Irish descent.\u00a0 He moved to Williamson County with his parents when a small boy and subsequently was educated at Lebanon, Wilson County, and began the practice of law at that place.\u00a0 He bas been a member of the Legislature several times and is a prominent lawyer of Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>He married <strong>Miss Mary Tolliver<\/strong>, a native of Lebanon, and to this union nine children were born, of whom the subject is the eldest.\u00a0<strong> Zach Thompson<\/strong> was educated at Cumberland University, Lebanon, and upon passing sixteen years of age he enlisted in the Seventh Tennessee Confederate Infantry.\u00a0 He served in that regiment about eighteen months and was then transferred to the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry and with that command served until the close of the war.\u00a0 He then returned home and read law and practiced at Lebanon until 1873.<\/p>\n<p>November 21, 1872, <strong>Miss Lettie Cannon<\/strong>, a native of Bedford County, became his wife.\u00a0 To this Union were born two children:\u00a0 <strong>Robert E<\/strong>., and <strong>Mary L<\/strong>., both living.\u00a0 In 1873 they moved upon the place where they now reside, which is about six miles northeast of Shelbyville.\u00a0 The farm consists of 820 acres, all under a good state of cultivation.\u00a0 In connection with farming Mr. Thompson has run a distillery for the last three years.\u00a0 In politics he is a stanch Democrat.<\/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>ZACH THOMPSON was born July 7, 1844, at Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tenn.\u00a0 His father, Col. Robert E. Thompson, is a native of Bedford County, Tenn., born in 1822 and of Irish descent.\u00a0 He moved to Williamson County with his parents when a small boy and subsequently was educated at Lebanon, Wilson County, and began the &#8230; <a title=\"THOMPSON, Zach\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/zach-thompson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about THOMPSON, Zach\">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":[41,7,31,42],"tags":[3376,3377,3351,3374,3373,3375],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-cumberland-university","category-williamson","category-wilson","tag-cannon-lettie","tag-thompson-mary-l","tag-thompson-robert-e","tag-thompson-robert-e-colonel","tag-thompson-zach","tag-tolliver-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","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=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}