{"id":3130,"date":"2022-01-10T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:21:19","slug":"bentley-kenneth-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bentley-kenneth-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley, Kenneth H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kenneth H. Bentley<\/strong> (deceased), was one of the prominent farmers of the Second<br \/>\nDistrict, and was born in Bertie County, N.C., April 9, 1833. When he was<br \/>\neleven years old his parents moved to West Tennessee, and settled in Haywood<br \/>\nCounty, but moved to Lauderdale County a few years later and settled in a<br \/>\nshort time on their present homestead, where K. H. Bentley, Sr., died March<br \/>\n24, 1866, and the mother died October 5, 1886. Our subject was the second<br \/>\nchild of three sons and four daughters. He had the advantages of a good<br \/>\ncommon-school education and made farming his chief occupation, and was before<br \/>\nthe war an old-line Whig, but a stanch Republican afterward, and with his wife<br \/>\nbelonged to the Baptist Church. Mr. Bentley was married in Crockett County,<br \/>\nFebruary 27, 1861, to Miss Palona J. Ferguson, daughter of Douglas Ferguson;<br \/>\nthey had eleven children, nine of them living: Joseph H., Walter E., Austin<br \/>\nA., David E., Jonathan A., Bertie, Altie, Kenneth O., Lucy A., and Laura E.<br \/>\nMrs. Bentley, the mother of this family, was born in Dyer County, Tenn.,<br \/>\nFebruary 20, 1844. In 1861 the family moved to Crockett County, and in two<br \/>\nyears to Missouri and settled in New Madrid County, then returned to Crockett<br \/>\nCounty, and two years later to their present home, where Mr. Bentley died May<br \/>\n17, 1886. The farm consists of 150 acres of fine productive land, managed by<br \/>\nthe sons of Mrs. Bentley, Austin A. having chief control. It is pleasantly<br \/>\nlocated ten miles north of Ripley on the Key Corner and Ripley road, and is<br \/>\nwell improved.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth H. Bentley (deceased), was one of the prominent farmers of the Second District, and was born in Bertie County, N.C., April 9, 1833. When he was eleven years old his parents moved to West Tennessee, and settled in Haywood <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bentley-kenneth-h\/\"><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":[70],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-bentley"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","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=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}