{"id":921,"date":"2015-09-20T20:03:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T01:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=921"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:41","slug":"thomas-b-philpott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-b-philpott\/","title":{"rendered":"PHILPOTT, Thomas B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THOMAS B. PHILPOTT<\/strong>, son of <strong>Charles T. and Rebecca (Hix) Philpott<\/strong>, was born in Bedford County, December 7, 1847.\u00a0 His father was a native of Virginia, immigrating to this State with his father when quite young, and settled in Bedford County.\u00a0 He was a saddler by occupation, and worked at his trade forty-five years in this county.\u00a0 He is now living at the advanced age of eighty-four years, and is the father of ten children: <strong>William, John H., Sarah<\/strong> (deceased) <strong>Joshua A<\/strong>. (deceased), <strong>Demarcus<\/strong> (deceased), <strong>Elisha C<\/strong>. (deceased),<strong> Nancy A.,<\/strong> <strong>Charles N.<\/strong> (deceased), <strong>James and Thomas B<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject grew to manhood on the farm, and was educated in the common schools.\u00a0 In 1864 he was married to <strong>Miss McFarland,<\/strong> and nine children blessed this union: <strong>Rebecca E., Charles N., Edward L., Nancy A. James, Jacob, Ernest, Minnie<\/strong> and <strong>William<\/strong>, all living.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject has all his life followed agricultural pursuits and has been quite successful.\u00a0 He now owns 360 acres of finely improved land in the Twenty-third District, and is a leading man 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>THOMAS B. PHILPOTT, son of Charles T. and Rebecca (Hix) Philpott, was born in Bedford County, December 7, 1847.\u00a0 His father was a native of Virginia, immigrating to this State with his father when quite young, and settled in Bedford County.\u00a0 He was a saddler by occupation, and worked at his trade forty-five years in &#8230; <a title=\"PHILPOTT, Thomas B.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-b-philpott\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about PHILPOTT, Thomas B.\">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":[3024,3034,3032,3023,3029,3036,3030,3038,3037,3033,3026,3028,3039,3031,3035,3027,3022,3025],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-hix-rebecca","tag-mcfarland-miss","tag-philpott-charles-n","tag-philpott-charles-t","tag-philpott-demarcus","tag-philpott-edward-l","tag-philpott-elisha-c","tag-philpott-ernest","tag-philpott-jacob","tag-philpott-james","tag-philpott-john-h","tag-philpott-joshua-a","tag-philpott-minnie","tag-philpott-nancy-a","tag-philpott-rebecca-e","tag-philpott-sarah","tag-philpott-thomas-b","tag-philpott-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}