{"id":860,"date":"2015-09-20T17:12:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=860"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:02","slug":"charles-w-leftwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/charles-w-leftwich\/","title":{"rendered":"LEFTWICH, Charles W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHARLES W. LEFTWICH<\/strong>, although not long a resident of Bedford County, is one of the enterprising dry goods merchants of Shelbyville. He was born in Moore County, Tenn., April 16, 1850.\u00a0 His father, <strong>Littleberry Leftwich,<\/strong> was born in this State.\u00a0 He has been a farmer and merchant most of his lifetime, and is now conducting a mercantile trade for Charles W. at Talley,\u00a0 Marshall Co., Tenn.\u00a0 The mother died in 1854.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm.\u00a0 He received his education mainly in Mulberry Academy of Lincoln County, Tenn.\u00a0 He then taught school about four years.\u00a0 In 1879 he engaged in merchandising in Moore County, Tenn., and continued successfully until the spring of 1885, when he established his business at Talley, which is now conducted by his father.\u00a0 In December, 1885,\u00a0 he began his business here and has continued successfully ever since, with a stock of $10,000 or $12,000 of dry goods and notions, boot and shoes,\u00a0 hats and caps, clothing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>He was married, in 1875, to <strong>Miss Maggie Morring<\/strong>, of Alabama.\u00a0 This union has been blessed in the birth of five children, four of whom are now living, viz.: C<strong>layton W., Thomas E., Nina P. and Littleberry<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Leftwich<\/strong> and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.\u00a0 Politically he has always been a Democrat.<\/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>CHARLES W. LEFTWICH, although not long a resident of Bedford County, is one of the enterprising dry goods merchants of Shelbyville. He was born in Moore County, Tenn., April 16, 1850.\u00a0 His father, Littleberry Leftwich, was born in this State.\u00a0 He has been a farmer and merchant most of his lifetime, and is now conducting &#8230; <a title=\"LEFTWICH, Charles W.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/charles-w-leftwich\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LEFTWICH, Charles W.\">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":[41,1202,2323,2324],"tags":[2724,2727,2725,2729,2728,2726],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-marshall","category-moore","category-mulberry-institute","tag-leftwich-charles-w","tag-leftwich-clayton-w","tag-leftwich-littleberry","tag-leftwich-nina-p","tag-leftwich-thomas-e","tag-morring-maggie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}