{"id":3138,"date":"2022-01-10T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:25:16","slug":"bomer-thomas-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bomer-thomas-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomer, Thomas G."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas G. Bomer<\/strong>, farmer and merchant, was born in Williamson County, Tenn.,<br \/>\nMay 7, 1828. His father, William Bomer, was born in Halifax County, Va., and<br \/>\nimmigrated to Williamson County, Tenn., when a young man, and married Miss<br \/>\nMargaret B. Ricketts, a daughter of Thomas Ricketts, a farmer formerly of<br \/>\nNorth Carolina. Their family consisted of three sons and four daughters, our<br \/>\nsubject being the oldest child. The father moved with his family to Calloway<br \/>\nCounty, Ky., in 1858, and two years later moved to Weakley County, Tenn.,<br \/>\nwhere he remained until he died, in 1878, and one day later his wife died and<br \/>\nthey were both buried in the same grave. Our subject was raised and educated<br \/>\non a farm, and has made farming his business. He remained at his father&#8217;s<br \/>\nuntil twenty-three years of age, then married in Williamson County, Tenn.,<br \/>\nDecember 23, 1851, Miss Mary Powell, a daughter of Squire Powell. Four sons<br \/>\nand three daughters were born to this union: William P., Edward J., John<br \/>\nO&#8217;Neil, Otie G., Minerva A., (Tilman) Mollie L. and Annie. Two have died,<br \/>\nWilliam P., November 11, 1878, and Minerva A. Tilman died near San Antonio,<br \/>\nTex., September 28, 1876. Mrs. Bomer was born in Adair County, Ky., April 13,<br \/>\n1832. Mr. Bomer is a Democrat and a Mason, and his wife and children are<br \/>\nmembers of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Bomer is a man of kind<br \/>\nheart and a high sense of honor; he is well liked in his community. He owns a<br \/>\ngood farm with a comfortable residence on it, thirteen miles north of Ripley<br \/>\non the Ripley and Key Corner road.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas G. Bomer, farmer and merchant, was born in Williamson County, Tenn., May 7, 1828. His father, William Bomer, was born in Halifax County, Va., and immigrated to Williamson County, Tenn., when a young man, and married Miss Margaret B. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bomer-thomas-g\/\"><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":[73],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-bomer"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","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=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}