{"id":3286,"date":"2022-01-10T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:00:27","slug":"pierson-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/pierson-atwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierson, Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atwood Pierson<\/strong>, residing at Double Bridges, Tenn., and a prominent farmer of
\nLauderdale County, was born within two miles of his present home September 16,
\n1856. His father, John F. Pierson, was born at Derby, Conn., and in his ninth
\nyears, imbued with the love of travel an Western adventure, went to the State
\nof Ohio and remained there until his eighteenth year, when he went to an
\nEastern seaboard and spent two years in ship building. He then attended a law
\nschool at Lexington, Ky., where he graduated with high honors, and located at
\nVicksburg, Miss., to practice law. He remained there several years, and
\npassed through one of the fearful scourges of yellow fever peculiar to the
\nplace, and this caused him to leave there and to change his plans, so he moved
\nto Hale’s Point, in Lauderdale County, where he established himself as
\nshipping merchant and dealer in general merchandise. He became one of the
\nlarge land owners of Lauderdale County, and was a man of extensive reading and
\nsound judgment, and was acknowledged by all to be an upright, conscientious,
\nhonorable gentleman. Mr. Pierson, Sr., married Miss E. Lee, who was descended
\nfrom the oldest and most prominent families of Virginia, her father being a
\nrelative of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and her mother of Franklin Pierce. Eight
\nchildren were born to this marriage, five of them now living. Our subject,
\nAttwood Pierson, inherited Scotch and Irish blood. His father died at Ripley,
\nTenn., September 8, 1878, and his mother at the same place September 11, 1881.
\nMr. Pierson was well educated, and has made farming his chief business. He
\nwas married in the house where he now lives February 18, 1880, to Miss Mattie
\nL. Jones, a daughter of Decatur P. Jones, and has had three children: Egbert
\nL., Kate F. and Neal Dow. Mrs. Pierson was born at the present homestead June
\n3, 1859. Mr. Pierson is neutral in politics. He owns a farm of 360 acres,
\nand raises grain and stock. It is a splendid stock farm, well watered, and
\nlocated at Double Bridges, in the northern part of Lauderdale County. Mr.
\nPierson is a man of great force of character, and strictly hones in every
\ntransaction.<\/p>\n

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

Atwood Pierson, residing at Double Bridges, Tenn., and a prominent farmer of Lauderdale County, was born within two miles of his present home September 16, 1856. His father, John F. Pierson, was born at Derby, Conn., and in his ninth …<\/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":[126],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-pierson"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}