{"id":3116,"date":"2022-01-10T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:10:07","slug":"alston-john-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/alston-john-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Alston, John J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. John J. Alston<\/strong>, a retired physician and prominent farmer of Lauderdale<br \/>\nCounty, was born in Williamson County, August 1, 1831, and is the son of<br \/>\nHardaway Alston, who was born in Warren County, N.C., in 1800, and came with<br \/>\nhis parents to Williamson, January 8, 1813, and after attaining his majority<br \/>\nhe married Rebecca P. Bradley, a daughter of Capt. Joseph J. Bradley, a farmer<br \/>\nand one of the pioneers of Middle Tennessee. After his marriage they settled<br \/>\nin Williamson County, Tenn., and settled at Mason&#8217;s Grove, remaining until<br \/>\n1857, when he removed to Lauderdale County and settled near the Hatchie River,<br \/>\nand died at his son&#8217;s (V.S. Alston), in 1876. The mother was born in Warren<br \/>\nCounty, N.C., and died at the home on Hatchie River in 1858. Dr. John Alston<br \/>\nwas raised on the farm, and received a liberal education at Triune, Tenn.,<br \/>\nthen read medicine with Dr. W. L. Fox, at Mason&#8217;s Grove, and attended<br \/>\nlectures at the Memphis Medical College in 1852-53, and was a most successful<br \/>\nphysician for eighteen years, when he retired in favor of a cousin. Dr.<br \/>\nAlston was married in Lauderdale County, May 4, 1859, to Miss Mary F. Loyd,<br \/>\ndaughter of Sydney S. Loyd, a farmer. Mrs. Alston was born in North Carolina,<br \/>\nin 1837. No children have been born to this marriage, but they have an<br \/>\nadopted daughter, Lee Anna Alston, fifteen years of age. Dr. Alston is a<br \/>\ndemocrat, and was made a Mason in Fuller Lodge, No. 269, at Ripley, Tenn., in<br \/>\n1857, representing his lodge in the Grand Lodge at Nashville for many years.<br \/>\nIn 1858-59 he was coroner in the county. In 1878 he represented his county in<br \/>\nthe Legislature. With his wife he belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church.<br \/>\nDr. Alston owns a farm of 767 acres of good land, eleven miles south of<br \/>\nRipley, on the Fulton road. It has a handsome residence on it and is one of<br \/>\nthe most desirable homes in the county, but they are at present living at<br \/>\nHenning, where they have another pleasant home, and are prominent people<br \/>\nsocially and in the church.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John J. Alston, a retired physician and prominent farmer of Lauderdale County, was born in Williamson County, August 1, 1831, and is the son of Hardaway Alston, who was born in Warren County, N.C., in 1800, and came with <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/alston-john-j\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-alston"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}