{"id":3341,"date":"2022-01-10T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:38:07","slug":"tarrant-john-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/tarrant-john-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant, John D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John D. Tarrant<\/strong>, ex-postmaster and farmer, is a son of John and Nancy (Croft)<br \/>\nTarrant, who were born, and reared and married in the Palmetto State. They<br \/>\nsoon after moved to Alabama, where they spent the remainder of their lives.<br \/>\nTheir family consisted of five sons and six daughters. The father was a Whig<br \/>\nand a strong Union man, and as farming was his chosen calling, he followed it<br \/>\nquite extensively in early life. His wife died in 1854 and he again<br \/>\nremarried. He died in 1867. Mr. Tarrant inherits English blood from his<br \/>\nancestors. Our subject is the tenth child of the family and was born October<br \/>\n21, 1849, in Cherokee County, Ala. At the age of seventeen he began to battle<br \/>\nhis own way in the world and for four years worked at the carpenter&#8217;s trade<br \/>\nand expended the fruits of his labor in educating himself. He came to<br \/>\nLauderdale County in 1867 and has since made it his home. After residing in<br \/>\nRipley a short time he entered a mercantile house as salesman, continuing<br \/>\nuntil 1872, when he became one of the firm of Greaves, Tarrant &amp; Co. Their<br \/>\nstock and store burned in 1874, and Mr. Tarrant accepted the position of<br \/>\ndeputy sheriff, which position he filled sixteen months, doing all the<br \/>\nbusiness of the office. In 1876 he acted as tax collector and has filled the<br \/>\noffice of deputy marshal four years, and was re-appointed but resigned. From<br \/>\n1881 until 1885, he served as postmaster, and since that time has followed<br \/>\nfarming. He owns 400 acres of farming land and 571 acres in timber. In 1879<br \/>\nhe married Anna Alexander, who was born July 7, 1852. They have three<br \/>\nchildren: Anna Marie, John and Genevieve. Mrs. Tarrant is a Missionary<br \/>\nBaptist. Mr. Tarrant is a Republican and for twenty years has been a resident<br \/>\nof Lincoln County. He has been a successful business man, and as a citizen<br \/>\nhas the interest of the community at heart. He was Mayor of Ripley two years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John D. Tarrant, ex-postmaster and farmer, is a son of John and Nancy (Croft) Tarrant, who were born, and reared and married in the Palmetto State. They soon after moved to Alabama, where they spent the remainder of their lives. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/tarrant-john-d\/\"><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":[143],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-tarrant"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","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=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}