{"id":1008,"date":"2015-09-21T22:36:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:38","slug":"john-c-troxler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-c-troxler\/","title":{"rendered":"TROXLER, John C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JOHN C. TROXLER<\/strong> was born January 5, 1840, in Tennessee.\u00a0 His parents, <strong>Anthony and Sarah (Cortner) Troxler<\/strong>, were born in North Carolina in 1802 and 1810, respectively.\u00a0 The father came to Tennessee about 1817, and died in 1843.\u00a0 The mother&#8217;s death occurred in 1886.\u00a0 Our subject has followed farming from early boyhood.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate service and remained until 1863, when he was captured while making a visit home, was paroled, and never returned to the service.\u00a0 He was constable of his district two years, and served as deputy sheriff one year.<\/p>\n<p>In 1866 <strong>Mr. Troxler<\/strong> was married to <strong>Mrs. Margaret A.<\/strong>, widow of <strong>Gilbreth Chambers<\/strong>.\u00a0 She was born in Tennessee in 1848.\u00a0 Nine children were born to <strong>Mr. and Mrs. Troxler,<\/strong> named <strong>George R.<\/strong>, born in 1867; <strong>William T<\/strong>., born in 1870; <strong>Nancy D<\/strong>., born in 1872; <strong>Sarah<\/strong>, born in 1874; <strong>John A<\/strong>., born in 1876; <strong>Daniel M<\/strong>., born in 1878; <strong>Edward,<\/strong> born in 1880; <strong>Polly<\/strong>, born in 1882, and <strong>Ambrose,<\/strong> born in 1884.\u00a0 In March, 1876, <strong>Mr. Troxler<\/strong> was elected justice of the peace in his district and has held the office up to the present time.\u00a0 He owns 126 acres of land, and is a member of the K. of H.\u00a0 He and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he is a Democrat politically.<\/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>JOHN C. TROXLER was born January 5, 1840, in Tennessee.\u00a0 His parents, Anthony and Sarah (Cortner) Troxler, were born in North Carolina in 1802 and 1810, respectively.\u00a0 The father came to Tennessee about 1817, and died in 1843.\u00a0 The mother&#8217;s death occurred in 1886.\u00a0 Our subject has followed farming from early boyhood.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1861 he &#8230; <a title=\"TROXLER, John C.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-c-troxler\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about TROXLER, John C.\">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],"tags":[3392,3391,3390,3401,3389,3398,3399,3393,3397,3388,3395,3400,3396,3394],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-chambers-gilbreth","tag-chambers-margaret-a-mrs","tag-cortner-sarah","tag-troxler-ambrose","tag-troxler-anthony","tag-troxler-daniel-m","tag-troxler-edward","tag-troxler-george-r","tag-troxler-john-a","tag-troxler-john-c","tag-troxler-nancy-d","tag-troxler-polly","tag-troxler-sarah","tag-troxler-william-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","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=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}