{"id":3277,"date":"2022-01-10T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:55:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:55:26","slug":"oldham-samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/oldham-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldham, Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the early settlers of Lauderdale County were Dr. Samuel and Cornelia C.<\/strong>
\n(Honyman) Oldham<\/strong>; her father, Dr. Robt. Honyman, was a noted physician and
\nmember of the royal navy, for many years surgeon of the “Portland,” a ship of
\nthe line, that was sent to St. Helena in 1771, to await Capt. Cook’s expected
\narrival from his first trip around the world, and convey his ship to England.
\nHe was also a direct descendant of the Dr. Honyman, who extracted by command,
\nthe fifth rib from the side of James V, King of Scotland, which rib was
\ntransmitted to him by his ancestors, and he by will to his only son, with the
\nrequest, “that he will carefully keep the said rib, and carefully transmit it
\nto his descendants.” Mr. and Mrs. Oldham were born and raised in Virginia; he
\nwas a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and one of
\nthe noted physicians of his State; they moved to Lauderdale County in 1838,
\nand he died in 1860, and left three sons, none now living. Robert H., the
\nsecond son, was also a physician and succeeded to his father’s practice; he
\nwas a graduate of the literary department of the University of Virginia, and
\nof the Jefferson Medical College, and for sixteen years practiced in
\nLauderdale County, standing at the head of his profession. In 1850 he married
\nLaura E. Partee, who was born in 1835; one son and one daughter of this
\nmarriage are living; both parents were members of the Protestant Episcopal
\nChurch. While Dr. Oldham took an active interest in politics, being a
\nDemocrat, he did not care for any official position. He died in 1862,
\nlamented by all; his wife is still living with her daughter in Brownsville,
\nTenn. The son, Robert H., was born January 10, 1856, in Lauderdale County,
\nand had fine educational advantages; he attended successively the colleges at
\nLebanon, Andrew College in Gibson County; Bethel College at Russellville, Ky.;
\nthe University of the South at Sewanee, and the college, at Georgetown, D. C.,
\nbecoming a thorough classical scholar. In 1877 he married Lucy A. Palmer, who
\nwas born in 1856, a cultured and beautiful woman. They have four children:
\nFrances C., Sue P., Palmer and Alice. Mr. Oldham is not a church member; Mrs.
\nOldham is a Methodist. In politics he is a Democrat; he gives his time to
\nfarming and the insurance business, and for three years has been a salesman
\nfor H. D. Glass & Co. He is an enterprising and popular young man.<\/p>\n

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

Among the early settlers of Lauderdale County were Dr. Samuel and Cornelia C. (Honyman) Oldham; her father, Dr. Robt. Honyman, was a noted physician and member of the royal navy, for many years surgeon of the “Portland,” a ship of …<\/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":[123],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-oldham"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3282,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}