{"id":3305,"date":"2022-01-10T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:20:21","slug":"roberson-john-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/roberson-john-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberson, John Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Davis Roberson<\/strong>, a farmer of the Eleventh District of Lauderdale County,<br \/>\nwas born in the county September 2, 1830, and is a son of Isham and Rhodie<br \/>\n(Stames) Roberson, both natives of South Carolina; the father was born in<br \/>\n1799, and came to Lauderdale (then Tipton County) in 1828, and died in 1861;<br \/>\nthe mother was born in 1801, and died in 1859. Our subject was raised on a<br \/>\nfarm and worked for his father until eighteen years of age, then commenced<br \/>\nfarming for himself. In 1858 Mr. Roberson was elected constable, and served a<br \/>\nterm; was elected magistrate in 1860, and served until 1870, when he was<br \/>\nelected State and county tax collector, and served a term, and was then<br \/>\nelected railroad tax collector, and served a term, and in 1876 was re-elected<br \/>\nmagistrate, and held the office until 1882. Mr. Roberson was first married<br \/>\nJanuary 14, 1848, to Elizabeth Braden, daughter of William and Sarah Braden,<br \/>\nand had five children: Sarah Ann, wife of J. C. Whitson; William Thomas, who<br \/>\ndied in 1858; Elizabeth Mansfield, the wife of S. D. Jenkins; Robert, David<br \/>\nand William Francis. Mrs. Roberson died in April, 1883, and in November,<br \/>\n1883, he married Mrs. Amanda A. Keller (nee Paul) a widow with ten children,<br \/>\neight girls and ten boys. (sic) Mr. Roberson is a member of the Methodist<br \/>\nEpiscopal Church South, and of the Masonic lodge at Ripley, Tenn. He is a<br \/>\nDemocrat and a Prohibitionist, and a most worthy citizen of Lauderdale County,<br \/>\nthe number of offices he has held by choice of the people, testifying to their<br \/>\nesteem and confidence in him as a man.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Davis Roberson, a farmer of the Eleventh District of Lauderdale County, was born in the county September 2, 1830, and is a son of Isham and Rhodie (Stames) Roberson, both natives of South Carolina; the father was born in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/roberson-john-davis\/\"><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":[131],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-roberson"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","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=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}