{"id":1060,"date":"2015-09-24T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T01:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:35","slug":"john-s-yoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-s-yoes\/","title":{"rendered":"YOES, John S. (Prof.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PROF. JOHN S. YOES<\/strong> is a son of <strong>Thomas Yoes<\/strong>, who was born in Tennessee in 1819.\u00a0 He was a farmer, and married <strong>Sallie Perryman<\/strong>, who was born in Tennessee about 1825, and by her became the father of fourteen children.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject was their sixth child, born October 9, 1849, and began doing for himself at the age of twenty.\u00a0 He chose school-teaching as his profession, and has continued with good success up to the present time.\u00a0 <strong>Margaret E. Hopkins<\/strong> became his wife March 14, 1871.\u00a0 She was born May 29, 1847, and has borne him six children:\u00a0 <strong>Marzie S., William T., Margaret E., Joseph W., Rebecca A. and John S. Prof.<\/strong> <strong>Yoes<\/strong> has been a teacher in Turrentine&#8217;s Academy since January, 1886.\u00a0 His early educational advantages were limited, but by much desultory study and reading has acquired an excellent education.\u00a0 He has mastered several of the sciences without a tutor, and in every particular has been the architect of his own fortune.\u00a0 He belongs to the Democratic party.<\/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>PROF. JOHN S. YOES is a son of Thomas Yoes, who was born in Tennessee in 1819.\u00a0 He was a farmer, and married Sallie Perryman, who was born in Tennessee about 1825, and by her became the father of fourteen children. Our subject was their sixth child, born October 9, 1849, and began doing for &#8230; <a title=\"YOES, John S. (Prof.)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-s-yoes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about YOES, John S. (Prof.)\">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":[3660,3659,3657,3664,3663,3661,3665,3658,3662],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-hopkins-margaret-e","tag-perryman-sallie","tag-yoes-john-s","tag-yoes-joseph-w","tag-yoes-margaret-e","tag-yoes-marzie-s","tag-yoes-rebecca-a","tag-yoes-thomas","tag-yoes-william-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","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=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}