{"id":225,"date":"2013-08-17T22:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T03:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=225"},"modified":"2013-08-26T20:48:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T01:48:31","slug":"harris-george-w-capt-d-1869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/harris-george-w-capt-d-1869\/","title":{"rendered":"HARRIS, George W. (Capt.) &#8211; (d. 1869)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: A Melancholy Death<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday last we received the melancholy intelligence of the death of <strong>Capt. George W. HARRIS<\/strong>, which occurred at the Atkin House in Knoxville, on Saturday night, the 11th inst., at half past eleven o&#8217;clock. \u00a0We glean the following particulars of this sad and melancholy occurrence, from our Knoxville Exchanges, of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A gentleman of that city who was well acquainted with <strong>Captain HARRIS<\/strong>, entered the cars of the E.T. and V.R.R. train, immediately upon its arrival at the depot, at one o&#8217;clock, on Saturday, when he saw <strong>Captain HARRIS<\/strong> lying back on a seat, evidently intense agony and unable to move or speak. \u00a0Assistance being called, he was carried to the Atkin House, placed upon a bed, and medical attendance procured, where he lingered until 11:30 pm, when he died.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was a native of Knoxville and a resident of Georgia. \u00a0He has been better known for many years past as &#8220;Sut Lovengood,&#8221; by contributions to the press, which have enriched its columns with wit and humor.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of the deceased passed down the road Sunday evening last, for Alabama, there to be interred. \u00a0<em>Requiescat in pace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.), 16 Dec. 1869. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89058302\/1869-12-16\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89058302\/1869-12-16\/ed-1\/seq-3\/<\/a>&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: A Melancholy Death On Tuesday last we received the melancholy intelligence of the death of Capt. George W. HARRIS, which occurred at the Atkin House in Knoxville, on Saturday night, the 11th inst., at half past eleven o&#8217;clock. \u00a0We glean the following particulars of this sad and melancholy occurrence,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,146],"tags":[415],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-knox","tag-harris-george-w-capt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}