{"id":948,"date":"2015-09-21T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=948"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:40","slug":"rutledge-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/rutledge-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"RUTLEDGE &#038; THOMPSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RUTLEDGE &amp; THOMPSON<\/strong>, dealers in a general line of groceries and provisions in Shelbyville, do a leading business in the town.\u00a0 The firm is composed of <strong>John W. Rutledge, Jr<\/strong>., and <strong>Thomas L. Thompson<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>John W. Rutledge, Jr<\/strong>., was born July 20, 1860, being a son of <strong>John W. Rutledge, Sr.\u00a0<\/strong> He was married, December 26, 1884, to <strong>Katie Nease,<\/strong> the result of this union being one son,<strong> John H.\u00a0 Mr. Rutledge<\/strong> is captain of the Shelbyville Hook and Ladder Company and an enterprising young business man.\u00a0 <strong>Thomas L. Thompson<\/strong> was born August 4, 1850, to the marriage of <strong>Thomas Thompson<\/strong> and <strong>Tranquilla Stephens.<\/strong>\u00a0 Both parents were natives of Bedford County, the mother being of North Carolina ancestry.\u00a0 The father was a farmer and Thomas L. was reared on a farm. He was married, February 25, 1875, to Miss <strong>Eunice M. Rutledge<\/strong>, daughter of <strong>John W. Rutledge, Sr.\u00a0<\/strong> Four children have been born to this union, viz.: <strong>Thomas L., Mary A., John W.<\/strong> and <strong>Hiram S.\u00a0<\/strong> The firm of Rutledge &amp; Thompson was established October 24, 1878.\u00a0 They were burned out October 22, 1885, and are now preparing to build a commodious brick building.\u00a0 They also deal in mules and fine horses.<\/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>RUTLEDGE &amp; THOMPSON, dealers in a general line of groceries and provisions in Shelbyville, do a leading business in the town.\u00a0 The firm is composed of John W. Rutledge, Jr., and Thomas L. Thompson.\u00a0 John W. Rutledge, Jr., was born July 20, 1860, being a son of John W. Rutledge, Sr.\u00a0 He was married, December &#8230; <a title=\"RUTLEDGE &#038; THOMPSON\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/rutledge-thompson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RUTLEDGE &#038; THOMPSON\">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":[3139,3138,3126,3133,3140,3143,3142,3141,3134],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-nease-katie","tag-rutledge-jr-john-w","tag-rutledge-sr-john-w","tag-rutledge-eunice-m","tag-stephens-tranquilla","tag-thompson-hiram-s","tag-thompson-john-w","tag-thompson-mary-a","tag-thompson-thomas-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}