{"id":3192,"date":"2022-01-10T14:56:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:57:58","slug":"g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/g\/","title":{"rendered":"Gause, Thompson G."},"content":{"rendered":"

Thompson G. Gause<\/strong>, a citizen of Ripley, Tenn., is a son of John P. and Hannah
\nJ. (Green) Gause. They were born, raised and married in North Carolina. In
\n1839 they moved to Brownsville, Tenn., and made it their home. Four sons and
\na daughter were born to them, and the parents and all of the children belong
\nto the Methodist Church. Mr. Gause was a lawyer of marked ability and a
\nleading member of the Brownsville bar, a zealous worker in his church, and
\nwidely known for his piety. He was in the Legislature while in North
\nCarolina. He died in 1855, and since his death the mother has lived with her
\nchildren; she is now seventy years old. Thompson G. Gause is of French
\ndescent on his father’s side, and was born June 15, 1840, in Brownsville, and
\nafter attending the school there, completed his education at Murfreesboro;
\nthen engaged in farming. In 1860 he married Sarah G. Moorer, born in 1842,
\nand they have had three sons and two daughters; the entire family are
\nMethodists. In 1861 Mr. Gause volunteered in Company M, of Seventh Tennessee
\nCavalry (Confederate Army) but after a year’s service his youngest brother
\ntook his place and returned to take care of his wife and mother, and farmed
\nuntil 1882; then moved to Ripley, but continues farming in connection with his
\nother business. Before the war he was a Whig, but since then has been a
\nDemocrat. Mr. Gause has been a resident of Lauderdale County for thirty-five
\nyears, he is a good business man, and a most worthy citizen and church member.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thompson G. Gause, a citizen of Ripley, Tenn., is a son of John P. and Hannah J. (Green) Gause. They were born, raised and married in North Carolina. In 1839 they moved to Brownsville, Tenn., and made it their home. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[94],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-gause"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","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=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}