{"id":878,"date":"2015-09-20T18:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T23:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=878"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:01","slug":"thomas-mcgill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-mcgill\/","title":{"rendered":"McGILL, Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THOMAS B. McGILL<\/strong>, son of <strong>W. McGill,<\/strong> whose sketch appears in this work, was born December 15, 1848, in Bedford County.\u00a0 He was reared on a farm and remained with his parents to the age of eighteen.\u00a0 He then engaged as a clerk in a dry goods store in Shelbyville till 1875.\u00a0 He then went to Nashville and clerked in a wholesale dry goods store for about a year.\u00a0 He then traveled in Kentucky for the Nashville Nursery one year.\u00a0 He then returned to Shelbyville and dealt in live-stock, etc., till 1881, when he established a mercantile trade in the Twenty-third District and secured the establishment of the post office at Singleton, and held the office in connection with his store three years.\u00a0 In September, 1883, he sold out and farmed for one year.\u00a0 In December, 1885, in connection with <strong>James B. Green<\/strong>, he opened the grocery and provision trade in Shelbyville, and the firm does a thriving business.<\/p>\n<p>He was married, June 4, 1884, to <strong>Miss Kittie Elliott,<\/strong> the result of this union being one son, <strong>Robert S.\u00a0 Mr. McGill<\/strong> is a member of the Christian Church, and his wife is a member of Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 Politically he is a Democrat.\u00a0 He is one of the enterprising and respected citizens of Shelbyville.<\/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 B. McGILL, son of W. McGill, whose sketch appears in this work, was born December 15, 1848, in Bedford County.\u00a0 He was reared on a farm and remained with his parents to the age of eighteen.\u00a0 He then engaged as a clerk in a dry goods store in Shelbyville till 1875.\u00a0 He then went &#8230; <a title=\"McGILL, Thomas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-mcgill\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about McGILL, Thomas\">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":[2807,2452,2808,2805,2806],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-elliott-kittie","tag-green-james-b","tag-mcgill-robert-s","tag-mcgill-thomas","tag-mcgill-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}