{"id":3209,"date":"2022-01-10T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:07:43","slug":"hendren-oliver-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/hendren-oliver-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendren, Oliver T."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oliver T. Hendren<\/strong> was born in Rowan County, N. C., January 17, 1821, and was<br \/>\nthe fourth child of a family of six sons and four daughters born to Beal W.<br \/>\nand Nancy T. (Hudson) Hendren, and is of Welsh descent, and by trade a<br \/>\nmachinist and carpenter. His father was born in North Carolina, and moved to<br \/>\nMadison County, Tenn., in March, 1826, but was raised and married in his<br \/>\nnative State. His wife&#8217;s parents were of Irish descent, but were born in<br \/>\nNorth Carolina. He was by trade a saddler, which he followed for fourteen<br \/>\nyears. In 1828 he moved to Tipton County and engaged in farming until his<br \/>\ndeath in 1842. Our subject&#8217;s mother was born in North Carolina and died in<br \/>\nLauderdale County, June 27, 1871. Our subject received a common-school<br \/>\neducation; he learned the carpenter&#8217;s trade in Fayette County, and the<br \/>\nmachinist&#8217;s in Memphis. He was married in Fayette County, December, 1842, to<br \/>\nAgnes H. Gregory, a daughter of J. T. Gregory, a native of South Carolina.<br \/>\nFive sons and seven daughters were born to this marriage; nine of them living.<br \/>\nMrs. Hendren was born in South Carolina, December 30, 1823, and died January<br \/>\n13, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Hendren belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church<br \/>\nSouth. He is a Democrat and a Mason, and he has served as magistrate since<br \/>\n1853, except two years during the war, and was the founder of Curve, a station<br \/>\non the Newport News &amp; Mississippi Valley Railroad, six and a half miles north<br \/>\nof Ripley, and is one of the most respected and substantial citizens of that<br \/>\nlocality. Mr. Hendren has 117 acres of land, and gives his chief attention to<br \/>\nraising fruit. He is an upright and industrious man.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver T. Hendren was born in Rowan County, N. C., January 17, 1821, and was the fourth child of a family of six sons and four daughters born to Beal W. and Nancy T. (Hudson) Hendren, and is of Welsh <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/hendren-oliver-t\/\"><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":[100],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-hendren"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","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=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}