{"id":3176,"date":"2022-01-10T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:46:50","slug":"dunavant-alonzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/dunavant-alonzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunavant, Alonzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alonzo Dunavant<\/strong>, a prominent farmer of Lauderdale County, was born in<br \/>\nWilliamson County, Tenn., July 12, 1826. His father was born in Amelia County,<br \/>\nVa., and when eighteen years of age came with his parents to Tennessee. He was<br \/>\na soldier in the war of 1812, and was in the battles of Horse Shoe and<br \/>\nEmuchfau and New Orleans; was married about 1818 to Miss Margaret T. Giddings.<br \/>\nShe died without children, and he married Miss Sarah B. Ried, and twelve sons<br \/>\nand two daughters were born to them, our subject being the fourth child. A<br \/>\nportion of this family were born on Little Harpeth River, where the father<br \/>\nsettled a few years after his second marriage, and moved to West Tennessee in<br \/>\n1833, settling near Double Bridges, where he died in 1869. The mother of our<br \/>\nsubject was born in Sumner County, Tenn., in 1802, and died in 1856. Alonzo<br \/>\nDunavant was raised on the farm, and secured a common school education, and<br \/>\nhas made farming his chief business. He married in Lauderdale County, November<br \/>\n30, 1853, Mary E. Mitchell, daughter of Zachariah Mitchell, a prominent<br \/>\nfarmer. Five sons and a daughter were born to them, four now living: Margaret,<br \/>\nEudora, James F., John V., and William A. D. Mrs. Dunavant was born in Middle<br \/>\nTennessee January 2, 1832, and died January 1, 1886. M. Dunavant belongs to<br \/>\nthe Methodist Episcopal Church South, as his wife did also. He is a stanch<br \/>\nDemocrat; cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Taylor. He owns 380 acres<br \/>\nof land and raises grain, stock and cotton. The farm is near Double Bridges,<br \/>\neleven and one-half miles north of Ripley, Tenn., and has a splendid residence<br \/>\non it. Mr. Dunavant is one of Lauderdale&#8217;s substantial citizens.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alonzo Dunavant, a prominent farmer of Lauderdale County, was born in Williamson County, Tenn., July 12, 1826. His father was born in Amelia County, Va., and when eighteen years of age came with his parents to Tennessee. He was a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/dunavant-alonzo\/\"><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-3176","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\/3176","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=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}