{"id":929,"date":"2015-09-21T20:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=929"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:41","slug":"c-b-raney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/c-b-raney\/","title":{"rendered":"RANEY, C.B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C. B. RANEY,<\/strong> farmer, of Bedford County, was born June 18, 1838, son of <strong>John W. and Catharine (Rolinson) Raney<\/strong>. The father was a native of Virginia, born in 1806, and immigrated to this county at an early day, settling in Bedford County. He was the father of a family of eight children, six of whom lived to be grown.\u00a0 <strong>John W. Raney<\/strong> was a farmer, and was accidentally killed in 1841.\u00a0 He was a worthy member or the Free-Will Baptist Church.\u00a0 The mother is still living.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject grew to manhood on the farm, and in 1865 began working for himself.\u00a0\u00a0 Previous to this he had enlisted in the Confederate Army, in the Forty-first Tennessee Regiment, and in 1861 was elected lieutenant in the company, but gave up his position to make harmony in the ranks, and acted as orderly sergeant.\u00a0 He was again elected lieutenant, and was soon made second lieutenant of the company.\u00a0 He was captured at Fort Donelson and carried to Camp Morton, where he remained eight months.\u00a0 He was then exchanged, and went back into service, and was in the battles of Vicksburg, Jackson, Raymond, Port Hudson, Corinth, Chickamauga and numerous other important battles, as his regiment was never in any important engagement without him.\u00a0 In 1878 he was married to <strong>Miss Victoria Campbell,<\/strong> and to this union two children were born:\u00a0<strong> Eunice and William<\/strong>.\u00a0 In politics he is a stanch 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>C. B. RANEY, farmer, of Bedford County, was born June 18, 1838, son of John W. and Catharine (Rolinson) Raney. The father was a native of Virginia, born in 1806, and immigrated to this county at an early day, settling in Bedford County. He was the father of a family of eight children, six of &#8230; <a title=\"RANEY, C.B.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/c-b-raney\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RANEY, C.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":[3058,3055,3059,3056,3060,3057],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-campbell-victoria","tag-raney-c-r","tag-raney-eunice","tag-raney-john-w","tag-raney-william","tag-rolinson-catharine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}