{"id":845,"date":"2015-09-20T16:49:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T21:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=845"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:03","slug":"thomas-j-joyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-j-joyce\/","title":{"rendered":"JOYCE, Thomas J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THOMAS J. JOYCE<\/strong> was born August 20, 1847, in Bedford County, and was the eldest of twelve children born to <strong>Anderson and Elizabeth Joyce.<\/strong>\u00a0 The father was born December 24, 1820, and died November 17, 1881.\u00a0 He was a successful farmer and at the time of his death was worth about $8,400 that he had accumulated by his own unaided efforts.\u00a0 The mother was born about 1830 and is still living.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject grew to manhood on the farm, and at the age of seventeen enlisted in the Confederate Army, Company A, Col. Hill&#8217;s cavalry regiment.\u00a0 He was in but one battle before the surrender &#8212; the battle of Franklin.\u00a0 At the age of twenty-two he and his eldest brother engaged in the stock business, buying and selling horses and cattle, and this they continued very successfully up to 1882.\u00a0 September 24, 1874, he wedded <strong>Bettie Bounds<\/strong>, of this county.\u00a0 The results of this union were two children:\u00a0 <strong>C. A<\/strong>., born February 7, 1876, and<strong> L. P.,<\/strong> born December 12, 1879.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Joyce<\/strong> is a good citizen and is scrupulously honest in every particular.\u00a0 He is a law-abiding man; never was sued or had a lawsuit in his life.\u00a0 He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 He is politically a Democrat and a member of the Masonic lodge, which body he joined about 1870.<\/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>THOMAS J. JOYCE was born August 20, 1847, in Bedford County, and was the eldest of twelve children born to Anderson and Elizabeth Joyce.\u00a0 The father was born December 24, 1820, and died November 17, 1881.\u00a0 He was a successful farmer and at the time of his death was worth about $8,400 that he had &#8230; <a title=\"JOYCE, Thomas J.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-j-joyce\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about JOYCE, Thomas 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":[1725,2654,2656,2655,2657,2653],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-bounds-bettie","tag-joyce-anderson","tag-joyce-c-a","tag-joyce-elizabeth","tag-joyce-l-p","tag-joyce-thomas-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}