{"id":3230,"date":"2022-01-10T15:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:28:23","slug":"j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/j\/","title":{"rendered":"Irvin, Robert S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert S. Irvin<\/strong>, a merchant and also the postmaster at Curve, Tenn., was born<br \/>\nin Appomattox County, Va., April 25, 1842. His father, John Irvin, was born in<br \/>\nVirginia, in 1809, and came to Tennessee in 1848, settling in Williamson<br \/>\nCounty; in 1850, he moved to Warren County, and in 1854 to Haywood County,<br \/>\nwhere he remained until 1874, the moved to Texas, locating in Victoria County,<br \/>\nand died at Stockdale, Tex., March, 1879. Our subject&#8217;s mother&#8217;s maiden name<br \/>\nwas Mary A. Steele; she was born in Appomattox Co., Va., and died in 1845.<br \/>\nRobert S. Irvin was raised and educated on a farm, and continued farming until<br \/>\n1878, and since that time has been in the mercantile business. He enlisted in<br \/>\nthe Confederate Army, belonging to the Seventh Tennessee Infantry, under Col.<br \/>\nJackson, of Jackson, Tenn., and was at the battles of Belmont, Mo.,<br \/>\nHarrisburg, Miss., Corinth, Miss., and Franklin, Tenn., and after serving<br \/>\nthrough the entire war, was surrendered with Forrest&#8217;s troups, at Gainesville,<br \/>\nAla. Mr. Irvin was married December 2, 1868, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., to<br \/>\nElizabeth Lackey, daughter of William Lackey, a prominent farmer. She was<br \/>\nborn in Rutherford County, April 12, 1842, and with her husband belongs to the<br \/>\nMethodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Irvin is a member of the firm of<br \/>\nAnderson &amp; Irvin, grocery and hardware dealers. He is also the postmaster at<br \/>\nCurve, Tenn., six and a half miles north of Ripley. In politics he is<br \/>\nDemocrat, and was the first one to open a store, at Curve, after the railroad<br \/>\nwas built, and by his capacity for business and strict integrity, has won the<br \/>\nconfidence and esteem of his community, and is a kind and liberal man.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert S. Irvin, a merchant and also the postmaster at Curve, Tenn., was born in Appomattox County, Va., April 25, 1842. His father, John Irvin, was born in Virginia, in 1809, and came to Tennessee in 1848, settling in Williamson <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/j\/\"><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":[105],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-irvin"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230","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=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}