{"id":539,"date":"2013-09-04T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T04:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=539"},"modified":"2013-09-04T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T04:54:16","slug":"smart-john-m-d-1866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/smart-john-m-d-1866\/","title":{"rendered":"SMART, John M. &#8211; (d. 1866)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murder of a Justice of the Peace in Sumner County, Tenn. \u2013 <strong>John M. SMART, Esq.,<\/strong> was killed on the 12th inst., while at work. He was a justice of the peace for the sixteenth civil district, Sumner county, Tennessee. Esquire SMART was elected in March, 1864, under the proclamation of Governor, now President Johnson. He had no private enemies, was a good man, a good citizen and a good officer. He was seventy-one years of age when killed, dying from a shot through the brain and lungs. \u2013 Louisville Democrat. (pg. 3)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Brownlow&#8217;s Knoxville Whig.\u00a0(Knoxville, Tenn.), 28 Feb. 1866.\u00a0Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045629\/1866-02-28\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\">http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045629\/1866-02-28\/ed-1\/seq-3\/<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murder of a Justice of the Peace in Sumner County, Tenn. \u2013 John M. SMART, Esq., was killed on the 12th inst., while at work. He was a justice of the peace for the sixteenth civil district, Sumner county, Tennessee. Esquire SMART was elected in March, 1864, under the proclamation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[15,613],"tags":[699],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-sumner","tag-smart-john-m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}