{"id":3126,"date":"2022-01-10T14:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:19:26","slug":"barbee-john-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/barbee-john-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbee, John Y."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Y. Barbee<\/strong>, one of the leading and most enterprising merchants of Ripley,<br \/>\nis a son of Allen and Susan Y. (Taylor) Barbee. His father was born in 1803,<br \/>\nin Orange County, N.C., and his mother in 1815 in Mecklenburg County, Va. They<br \/>\nhad nine children &#8212; two boys and seven girls &#8212; all of whom lived to be<br \/>\ngrown; both parents were Methodists. The father, an eminent physician,<br \/>\ngraduated at the Philadelphia Medical College, after completing his literary<br \/>\neducation at Chapel Hill University, North Carolina. In 1827 he moved to<br \/>\nHaywood County, Tenn., locating in Brownsville, and was the first physician to<br \/>\nuse quinine in that county. His first professional call was a case of chills,<br \/>\nwhich he cured and laid the foundation for his later success. Mrs. Barbee&#8217;s<br \/>\nfamily moved near Brownsville in 1824, and they were married in 1832. Dr.<br \/>\nBarbee was a Democrat all of his life. In connection with his professional<br \/>\nduties, he farmed extensively. His wife died in 1868, and he died in 1878. Our<br \/>\nsubject was born August 20, 1840, in Haywood County, was raised on a farm and<br \/>\neducated by private teachers. When sixteen, he went to Memphis as a clerk in a<br \/>\ndry goods store, where he remained three years. In 1861 he volunteered in the<br \/>\nConfederate service, in Company D, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, and was in<br \/>\nactive service until close of the war. After the war he farmed a year, then<br \/>\nmoved to Ripley and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1864 he married P.<br \/>\nM. Read, who was born February 25, 1843, and they have been blessed with ten<br \/>\nchildren, four sons and four daughters living; both parents and four of the<br \/>\nchildren are Methodists. For nineteen years he has been one of the most<br \/>\nsuccessful merchants of Ripley.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Y. Barbee, one of the leading and most enterprising merchants of Ripley, is a son of Allen and Susan Y. (Taylor) Barbee. His father was born in 1803, in Orange County, N.C., and his mother in 1815 in Mecklenburg <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/barbee-john-y\/\"><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":[68],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-barbee"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","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=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}