{"id":425,"date":"2015-02-07T12:13:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=425"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:48","slug":"jesse-blalock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/jesse-blalock\/","title":{"rendered":"BLALOCK, Jesse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jesse BLALOCK,<\/strong> planter, of Hardeman County, is a native of Granville County, N.C., born October 5, 1814, son of <strong>William and Katie (Cash) BLALOCK<\/strong>. The parents were natives of North Carolina, and there lived and died both in the same year. When Jesse was an infant he was left with strangers, but through his own efforts secured a good practical education, and was bound out to <strong>J. W. PHILPOTT,<\/strong> who died before our subject reached his majority, and not receiving any compensation for all his years of hard work <strong>Mr. BLALOCK<\/strong>\u00a0was left with nothing but an honest heart and name, and an ambition that prompted him to industry and labor.<\/p>\n<p>In May, 1833, he married <strong>Miss Rosana LEE<\/strong>, a native of North Carolina, born October 5, 1812. This was a happy union for forty years and the wife died October 5, 1873. In 1836 <strong>Mr. BLALOCK<\/strong>\u00a0purchased a little farm near where he now lives, where he remained a short time, then moved to Fayette County, near New Castle, where he lived a short time and after living in different places until December, 1850, he then moved where he now lives, twelve miles west of Bolivar. He now owns 500 acres of good land under a good state of cultivation. To his first marriage ten children were born, nine of whom lived to be grown. July 21, 1874, he married for his second wife <strong>Miss Bettie HUDSON<\/strong>, a native of Hardeman County, born May 20, 1850, and to them have been born two daughters: <strong>Pauline<\/strong>, born August 31, 1875, and died September 30, 1877, and <strong>Annie May<\/strong>, born November 19, 1877. In politics <strong>Mr. BLALOCK<\/strong>\u00a0is a stanch Democrat, and he and wife are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and to the interest of which he is a very liberal contributor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by David Donahue<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Goodspeed Pub. Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present ; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Fayette and Hardeman Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse BLALOCK, planter, of Hardeman County, is a native of Granville County, N.C., born October 5, 1814, son of William and Katie (Cash) BLALOCK. The parents were natives of North Carolina, and there lived and died both in the same year. When Jesse was an infant he was left with strangers, but through his own &#8230; <a title=\"BLALOCK, Jesse\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/jesse-blalock\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about BLALOCK, Jesse\">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":[1143,1268],"tags":[1312,1306,1311,1307,1308,1310,1309],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fayette","category-hardeman","tag-blalock-annie-may","tag-blalock-jesse","tag-blalock-pauline","tag-blalock-william","tag-cash-katie","tag-hudson-bettie","tag-lee-rosana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}