{"id":229,"date":"2012-03-16T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson2\/?p=229"},"modified":"2012-03-16T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T21:01:05","slug":"ironville-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/ironville-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironville Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1888-1903<\/p>\n<p>The Ironville Post Office was one of the &#8220;nostalgic&#8221; post offices in Johnson County from 1888-1903. It was located in the home of Jacob F. and Mary Brown Dugger in the Dry Hill community (10th District). After Jacob&#8217;s death in 1888, their daughter, Nancy Jane Dugger Walker (John Walker) cared for Mary. In 1890 Nancy Jane inherited the land with the home on it.<\/p>\n<p>Mail was received at the home where neighbors came to pick up their mail. The house with its mail slot in the door was still standing in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Jane married 2) Charles Hamby Morris on 20 Dec 1891. In 1903 they moved to the New Victory community in lower Washington County, TN and the post office closed.<\/p>\n<p><em>From &#8220;The Dugger Family&#8221; by Frances Dugger Rowan, Overmountain Press 1995, p. 209.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1888-1903 The Ironville Post Office was one of the &#8220;nostalgic&#8221; post offices in Johnson County from 1888-1903. It was located in the home of Jacob F. and Mary Brown Dugger in the Dry Hill community (10th District). After Jacob&#8217;s death in 1888, their daughter, Nancy Jane Dugger Walker (John Walker) cared for Mary. In 1890 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}