{"id":946,"date":"2015-09-21T20:56:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=946"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:40","slug":"john-w-rutledge-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-w-rutledge-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"RUTLEDGE Sr., John W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JOHN W. RUTLEDGE, SR<\/strong>., one of Bedford County&#8217;s farmers, was born January 12, 1823, in Bedford County, being a son of <strong>John and Sarah Davenport Rutledge<\/strong>, natives of South Carolina.\u00a0 The parents were married in their native State and came to Bedford County in the very early settlement of the county.\u00a0 <strong>John W<\/strong>. was reared on a farm and secured but a common school education, the schools then being in an undeveloped condition.\u00a0 He began farming for himself when grown, and at the age of twenty-seven married.\u00a0 He continued to farm and deal in live-stock extensively.\u00a0 He now owns 108 acres of land, with seventy-five acres under cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>He was married November 22, 1849, to <strong>Eunice M. Warner<\/strong>, daughter of <strong>John and Eunice (Dixon) Warner<\/strong>, natives of North Carolina.\u00a0 They came to Sumner County, Tenn., when small, and thence to Bedford County, where they lived and died.\u00a0 The father was born in 1783, and the mother in 1792; they were married November 11, 1810.\u00a0 The father was a sheriff of Bedford County for many years; he was a farmer by occupation.\u00a0 He died May 17, 1834, and the mother died October 2. 1852.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge<\/strong> are parents of four children, viz.:\u00a0 <strong>John G.<\/strong>, who died young; <strong>Warner G<\/strong>.; <strong>Eunice M.,<\/strong> the wife of <strong>Thomas L. Thompson,<\/strong> and <strong>John W.<\/strong>\u00a0 All the family are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and all are Democrats in politics.\u00a0 <strong>Warner G. Rutledge<\/strong> was married December 4, 1874, to Miss <strong>Julia L. Phillips<\/strong> who died January 16, 1876, after becoming the mother of a child, <strong>Julia L<\/strong>., who also died July 16, 1876.\u00a0 He is store-keeper and gauger in the revenue service in the Middle and West Divisions of Tennessee.<\/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>JOHN W. RUTLEDGE, SR., one of Bedford County&#8217;s farmers, was born January 12, 1823, in Bedford County, being a son of John and Sarah Davenport Rutledge, natives of South Carolina.\u00a0 The parents were married in their native State and came to Bedford County in the very early settlement of the county.\u00a0 John W. was reared &#8230; <a title=\"RUTLEDGE Sr., John W.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-w-rutledge-sr\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RUTLEDGE Sr., John 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":[41,15],"tags":[3128,3131,3136,3126,3133,3127,3132,3135,3137,3134,3129,3130],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-sumner","tag-davenport-sarah","tag-dixon-eunice","tag-phillips-julia-l","tag-rutledge-sr-john-w","tag-rutledge-eunice-m","tag-rutledge-john","tag-rutledge-john-g","tag-rutledge-john-w","tag-rutledge-julia-l","tag-thompson-thomas-l","tag-warner-eunice-m","tag-warner-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}