{"id":1018,"date":"2015-09-22T19:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:37","slug":"james-vannatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/james-vannatta\/","title":{"rendered":"VANNATTA, James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JAMES VANNATTA<\/strong> was born February 9, 1811, in Williamson County, Tenn., and was reared and educated in the country.\u00a0 January 12, 1831, he was united in marriage to <strong>Miss Martha Watson<\/strong>, and by her became the father of three children:\u00a0 <strong>Samuel, Hibernah K. and John S.,<\/strong> only one of whom is living.\u00a0 <strong>Mrs. Vannatta<\/strong> died in 1839, and for his second wife <strong>Mr. Vannatta<\/strong> took <strong>Mrs. Jerusha (Clardy) Nash<\/strong>, and to them were born the following children:\u00a0 <strong>Delphia A., Joseph R., George W., Charity A., Eliza F., Christopher C. and Nannie D<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1850<strong> Mr. Vannatta<\/strong> moved to Bedford County, where he engaged in farming and stock raising.\u00a0 Both he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Vannatta&#8217;s<\/strong> parents were <strong>C. C. and Nancy (Louder) Vannatta<\/strong>, born in North Carolina and Kentucky, respectively. T he father came to Tennessee at an early day, locating in Williamson County, near Triune.\u00a0 To him and wife were born the following children:\u00a0 <strong>Maria, James and Katie<\/strong>; only one, <strong>James,<\/strong> is now living.\u00a0 The father was in the war of 1812, and was with Jackson at New Orleans.\u00a0 He died on his way home from that place.\u00a0\u00a0 His widow died in 1839.\u00a0 Both were earnest workers in the Methodist. Episcopal Church South.<\/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>JAMES VANNATTA was born February 9, 1811, in Williamson County, Tenn., and was reared and educated in the country.\u00a0 January 12, 1831, he was united in marriage to Miss Martha Watson, and by her became the father of three children:\u00a0 Samuel, Hibernah K. and John S., only one of whom is living.\u00a0 Mrs. Vannatta died &#8230; <a title=\"VANNATTA, James\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/james-vannatta\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about VANNATTA, James\">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":[41,31],"tags":[3465,3456,3459,3464,3460,3462,3457,3461,3454,3451,3455,3458,3463,3453,3452],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-williamson","tag-louder-nancy","tag-nash-jerusha-mrs","tag-vanatta-george-w","tag-vannatta-c-c","tag-vannatta-charity-a","tag-vannatta-christopher-c","tag-vannatta-delphia-a","tag-vannatta-eliza-f","tag-vannatta-hibernah-k","tag-vannatta-james","tag-vannatta-john-s","tag-vannatta-joseph-r","tag-vannatta-nannie-d","tag-vannatta-samuel","tag-watson-martha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","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=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}