{"id":3174,"date":"2022-01-10T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:45:46","slug":"dunavant-alexander-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/dunavant-alexander-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunavant, Alexander H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Alexander H. Dunavant<\/strong>, a prominent physician of Lauderdale County, Tenn.,<br \/>\nlocated near Double Bridges, was born in Franklin, Tenn., August 20, 1821, and<br \/>\nwas the oldest of twelve sons and two daughters, born to Leonard and Sarah B.<br \/>\n(Reid) Dunavant, and is of English and French extraction. His father was born<br \/>\nin Amelia County, Va., January 8, 1792, came to Tennessee in 1810, and settled<br \/>\nin Franklin, Tenn., where he remained until 1822, when he moved to Little<br \/>\nHarpeth, between Franklin and Nashville, giving his attention to farming,<br \/>\ninterspersed with house-joining, which was his trade. In 1833 he moved to that<br \/>\npart of Dyer County that is now Lauderdale, settling two and a half miles<br \/>\nsoutheast of Key Corner, and a year later moved to three miles farther south,<br \/>\nwhere he died September 10, 1869. The mother was born in Williamson County May<br \/>\n23, 1803, and died at the homestead in Lauderdale County, October 26, 1856.<br \/>\nDr. Dunavant was raised on a farm, and after completing his education read<br \/>\nmedicine under Dr. G. H. Hooper, and attended lectures in the medical<br \/>\ndepartment of the university at Nashville, taking his first course in the<br \/>\nwinter of 1853-54 and graduating in 1854-55. He was married by Dr. J. B.<br \/>\nMcFerrin in Nashville, March 20, 1854, to Miss Maria G. Dobson, a daughter of<br \/>\nJ. E. Dobson, a cabinet workman. Eight children wee born to this union, five<br \/>\nof them now living; Sarah B. M., Grundy Bell, Fannie, Alexander Ried and<br \/>\nMinnie. Mrs. Dunavant was born in Murfreesboro September 5, 1833. Dr. Dunavant<br \/>\nis a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Henry Clay in 1844. He<br \/>\nwas in the Mexican war, and is exceedingly popular both as a man and a<br \/>\nphysician.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alexander H. Dunavant, a prominent physician of Lauderdale County, Tenn., located near Double Bridges, was born in Franklin, Tenn., August 20, 1821, and was the oldest of twelve sons and two daughters, born to Leonard and Sarah B. (Reid) <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/dunavant-alexander-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":"no","_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":[88],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-dunavant"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}