{"id":837,"date":"2015-09-20T16:28:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T21:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=837"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:03","slug":"a-j-jarrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/a-j-jarrell\/","title":{"rendered":"JARRELL, A.J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A. J. JARRELL<\/strong>, one of Shelbyville&#8217;s best business men, was born March 15, 1845, in Davidson County, Tenn., being a son of <strong>Wesley and Martha (Lovell) Jarrell.<\/strong>\u00a0 The father was a native of Kentucky.\u00a0 He died about 1854.\u00a0 The mother was born in 1812, and is now living.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm.\u00a0 In 1860 he came with his mother to Shelbyville, and farmed a short time, and then worked about in different vocations till 1866.\u00a0 He then learned the tinner&#8217;s trade, and in 1868 opened up his business, dealing in stoves and tinware.\u00a0 He has been quite successful, and carries on farming also, now owning a fine farm adjoining Shelbyville.\u00a0 He carries about $5,000 stock, and does the leading business of the kind in the county.<\/p>\n<p>In 1867 he married <strong>Miss Helen Givens<\/strong>, who bore him six children.\u00a0 This wife died in 1881, and in 1882 he married <strong>Miss Lina Givens<\/strong>, a sister of the former wife.\u00a0 One child has been born to this union.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Jarrell,<\/strong> his wife and eldest daughter are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Jarrell<\/strong> is a Blue Lodge Mason and a member of the I. O. O. F.\u00a0 Politically he is a Republican.\u00a0 He served one year in Company A, Fourth Tennessee Mounted Infantry, United States Army.\u00a0 He is thoroughly a self-made man, and one of the very prominent citizens of the county.<\/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>A. J. JARRELL, one of Shelbyville&#8217;s best business men, was born March 15, 1845, in Davidson County, Tenn., being a son of Wesley and Martha (Lovell) Jarrell.\u00a0 The father was a native of Kentucky.\u00a0 He died about 1854.\u00a0 The mother was born in 1812, and is now living. The subject of this sketch was reared &#8230; <a title=\"JARRELL, A.J.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/a-j-jarrell\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about JARRELL, A.J.\">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":[2633,2634,2631,2630,2632],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-givens-helen","tag-givens-lina","tag-jarrell-wesley","tag-jerrell-a-j","tag-lovell-martha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}