{"id":2208,"date":"2014-08-22T17:28:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:47:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T02:47:41","slug":"joseph-park-c-1768-1834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/joseph-park-c-1768-1834\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Park (c. 1768-1834)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Member of the Tennessee House, 4th General Assembly, 1801-03; representing Greene County; no party affiliation indicated. Born c. 1768 in County Donegal, Ireland; son of Robert and Nancy (Aiken) Park. Came to America in his youth; was living in Greene County as early as 1793. Bought land at Rogersville, Hawkins county, in 1806; sold it in 1826, and removed to Nashville, Davidson County. Never married. Justice of the peace in Greene County; sheriff of Hawkins county, 1802-05. Died in Nashville on March 20, 1834; place of burial not stated.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Armstrong, <em>Notable Southern Families<\/em>, III, 87-89; <em>Nashville Banner and Nashville Daily Advertiser<\/em>, March 22, 1834; Goodspeed, <em>History of Hawkins County<\/em>, 880; Greene County Court Minutes, 1802-04, pp. 107, 113; 1807-09, p. 86; Hawkins County Court Minutes, 1810-21, pp. 456, 488; Greene County Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1783-1796, pp. 285, 450.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Mildred Collins from published biographies of Tennessee Legislators, compiled and printed by the TN State Library &amp;amp; Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of the Tennessee House, 4th General Assembly, 1801-03; representing Greene County; no party affiliation indicated. Born c. 1768 in County Donegal, Ireland; son of Robert and Nancy (Aiken) Park. Came to America in his youth; was living in Greene <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/joseph-park-c-1768-1834\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}