{"id":347,"date":"2015-02-06T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T04:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=347"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:55:11","slug":"h-d-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/h-d-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANKLIN, H.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>H. D. FRANKLIN<\/strong>, county court clerk of Chester County, Tenn., was born in North Carolina, January 12, 1848, and is one of a family of live children, two of whom are now living. His parents, <strong>David J. and Sarah B. (Browder) FRANKLIN<\/strong>, are both natives of Halifax County, Va.; the former born about 1826 and the latter about 1818. The father came to this State about 1848 and located near Henderson. He is a Baptist minister by profession and is also engaged in the mercantile business at McNairy Station. He is an active business man, a zealous Christian worker, and one of the prominent citizens of the county. The mother died in October, 1883.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject was reared at home and received his education in the district schools. In 1869 he married <strong>A. B. SHERWOOD<\/strong>, a native of Clark County, Ala., born in 1851, and the daughter of <strong>Alonzo and Harriet SHERWOOD<\/strong>. By this union they have four children: <strong>Evie, Etna, Rubie and David<\/strong>. In 1867 <strong>Mr. FRANKLIN<\/strong>\u00a0was appointed postmaster and held that office for about thirteen years; at the same time he was engaged as salesman for a dry goods house, and express agent. He continued the mercantile business until 1882 when he was elected to his present office. He was re-elected and still fills the position. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Masonic fraternity, also a member of the A. O. U. W., and he and wife are members of the Baptist Church, of which he is a deacon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by David Donahue<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>Source: History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present ; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Henderson, Chester, McNairy, Decatur, and Hardin Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. Nashville, TN: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H. D. FRANKLIN, county court clerk of Chester County, Tenn., was born in North Carolina, January 12, 1848, and is one of a family of live children, two of whom are now living. His parents, David J. and Sarah B. (Browder) FRANKLIN, are both natives of Halifax County, Va.; the former born about 1826 and &#8230; <a title=\"FRANKLIN, H.D.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/h-d-franklin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FRANKLIN, H.D.\">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":[1045],"tags":[1116,1123,1115,1121,1120,1114,1122,1117,1118,1119],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chester","tag-browder-sarah-b","tag-franklin-david","tag-franklin-david-j","tag-franklin-etna","tag-franklin-evie","tag-franklin-h-d","tag-franklin-rubie","tag-sherwood-a-b","tag-sherwood-alonzo","tag-sherwood-harriet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}