{"id":3194,"date":"2022-01-10T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:59:01","slug":"gillespie-j-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/gillespie-j-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillespie, J. E."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J. E. Gillespie<\/strong> resides in the Eleventh District, and was born in Lauderdale<br \/>\nCounty, July 28, 1842, and is a son of James and Minerva (Nelson) Gillespie,<br \/>\nwho were both natives of South Carolina, though his father was raised in North<br \/>\nCarolina. Our subject is of Irish descent, and was raised on a farm and<br \/>\nworked for his father until twenty-six years of age, when he commenced farming<br \/>\nfor himself, and in 1867 he engaged in the cotton-gin business in connection<br \/>\nwith farming, and still successfully continues both. Mr. Gillespie was<br \/>\nmarried April 14, 1869, to Miss Jennie Lewton, daughter of William and Martha<br \/>\nLewton. They have five children: John May, Laura J.,, Florence Ella, Thomas<br \/>\nB., Rilla Adell. Mr. Gillespie is a man of strict integrity and generous<br \/>\ndisposition. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in good<br \/>\nstanding, and of good social position. His school advantages were limited,<br \/>\nbut he has always manifested a ready willingness to support and assist all<br \/>\nenterprises for advancing the cause of education. Politically Mr. Gillespie<br \/>\nis a Democrat, and he is a worthy citizen of Lauderdale County.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. E. Gillespie resides in the Eleventh District, and was born in Lauderdale County, July 28, 1842, and is a son of James and Minerva (Nelson) Gillespie, who were both natives of South Carolina, though his father was raised in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/gillespie-j-e\/\"><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":[55],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-gillespie"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","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=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}