{"id":804,"date":"2015-09-20T00:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=804"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:04","slug":"john-h-grider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-h-grider\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIDER, John H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JOHN H. GRIDER<\/strong> was born December 27, 1844, in Jackson County, Ala.\u00a0 His father, <strong>Ananias A. Grider<\/strong>, was born in Putnam County, Tenn., in 1812.\u00a0 He married <strong>Miss G. Bullington,<\/strong> a native of the same county.\u00a0 To this union seven children were born, our subject being the fifth.\u00a0 <strong>Ananias A. Grider<\/strong> died August, 1856, and his wife died in the same month.\u00a0 Our subject was educated in the country schools of his native county.<\/p>\n<p>In May, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Seventeenth Tennessee Regiment, and served with this command up to and including the battle of Chickamauga.\u00a0 During this time he never was absent from his command a single day.\u00a0 The principal battles were Wild Cat Mountain, Fishing Creek, Perryville, Stone River and Chickamauga.\u00a0 At the latter place be was captured and taken to Camp Douglas, at Chicago, Ill., where he remained until March 23, 1865.<\/p>\n<p>He was then taken to Point Lookout, Md., where he took the oath of allegiance, was released and returned home.\u00a0 He then worked two years on the Nashville &amp; Chattanooga Railroad, and ever since then has followed farming in Bedford County, where he now resides.\u00a0 On July 1, 1866, he married <strong>Mrs. Sarah J. Mooney<\/strong>, and to this union were born five children.\u00a0 Mr. Grider owns a farm of 135 acres in District No. 3, and he and wife are worthy members of 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>JOHN H. GRIDER was born December 27, 1844, in Jackson County, Ala.\u00a0 His father, Ananias A. Grider, was born in Putnam County, Tenn., in 1812.\u00a0 He married Miss G. Bullington, a native of the same county.\u00a0 To this union seven children were born, our subject being the fifth.\u00a0 Ananias A. Grider died August, 1856, and &#8230; <a title=\"GRIDER, John H.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-h-grider\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about GRIDER, John H.\">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":[2478,2477,2476,2479],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-bullington-g-miss","tag-grider-ananias-a","tag-grider-john-h","tag-mooney-sarah-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}