{"id":3308,"date":"2022-01-10T17:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:22:50","slug":"scott-t-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/scott-t-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott, T. M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T. M. Scott<\/strong> is a son of Robert C. and Mary (Alston) Scott. His father was<br \/>\nborn in Halifax County, Va., in 1778, and the mother in North Carolina. They<br \/>\nhad three sons and three daughters. Our subject and a sister are now the only<br \/>\nmembers of the family surviving. In politics the father was an old line Whig.<br \/>\nHe died in 1840, his mother having died several years previous. Our subject is<br \/>\nof Scotch descent, and was born in Halifax County, Va., October 25, 1824, and<br \/>\nwas raised on a farm, receiving a good education, and came with his parents to<br \/>\nHaywood County in 1836. November 29, 1849, he married Miss Melvina H. Marley,<br \/>\nwho was born in Middle Tennessee April 12, 1826, and to their marriage nine<br \/>\nchildren were born &#8212; six boys and three girls; five sons and two daughters<br \/>\nare living. Mr. Scott and family moved to Lauderdale County in 1870, where<br \/>\nMr. Scott has since been successfully engaged in farming, owning 1,300 acres<br \/>\nof fertile land. He is a Democrat, but takes no active part in anything but<br \/>\nlocal politics. He is not connected with any church, but Mrs. Scott is a<br \/>\nmember of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mr. Scott has been a citizen of<br \/>\nLauderdale County for sixteen years, and has gained the esteem and confidence<br \/>\nof all who know him, being an upright, honest man in all of his dealings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T. M. Scott is a son of Robert C. and Mary (Alston) Scott. His father was born in Halifax County, Va., in 1778, and the mother in North Carolina. They had three sons and three daughters. Our subject and a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/scott-t-m\/\"><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":[134],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-scott"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","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=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}