{"id":1026,"date":"2015-09-22T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:37","slug":"thomas-w-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-w-warner\/","title":{"rendered":"WARNER, Thomas W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THOMAS W. WARNER<\/strong>, dealer in a general line of groceries and provisions, was born October 26, 1838, in Shelbyville, being a son of <strong>William D. and Mary (Swift) Warner<\/strong>, both natives of Bedford County.\u00a0 The father was killed when our subject was but one year old, and the mother is still living, having been married three times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas W<\/strong>. was raised by his grandmother, Swift, on a farm, and secured but a common school education.\u00a0 At the age of fifteen he began his own support.\u00a0 He has been engaged as a clerk and merchant for about twenty-five years.\u00a0 He also owns 143 acres of fine land and carries on farming, his residence being one and three-quarter miles west of Shelbyville, on the Fishing Ford Pike, in an excellent location.<\/p>\n<p>He was married May 20, 1866, to <strong>Emma R. Trail<\/strong>, a native of Franklin, Ky.\u00a0 Six children have been born to them, viz.:\u00a0 <strong>Hugh, Frazer, William F., Thomas W., Henry W.<\/strong> and one who died.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Warner<\/strong> and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.\u00a0 He is a member of the Democratic party.\u00a0 He has in his possession a $1 United States coin, bearing the date of 1798, which his father and grandfather each carried.\u00a0 Mr. Warner is a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of H.<\/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>THOMAS W. WARNER, dealer in a general line of groceries and provisions, was born October 26, 1838, in Shelbyville, being a son of William D. and Mary (Swift) Warner, both natives of Bedford County.\u00a0 The father was killed when our subject was but one year old, and the mother is still living, having been married &#8230; <a title=\"WARNER, Thomas W.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-w-warner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WARNER, Thomas W.\">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":[3487,3488,3490,3492,3489,3485,3486,3491],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-swift-mary","tag-trail-emma-r","tag-warner-frazer","tag-warner-henry-w","tag-warner-hugh","tag-warner-thomas-w","tag-warner-william-d","tag-warner-william-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","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=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}