{"id":3342,"date":"2022-01-10T17:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:41:53","slug":"tigrett-rev-samuel-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/tigrett-rev-samuel-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigrett, Rev. Samuel K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rev. Samuel K. Tigrett<\/strong>, a talented minister of the Baptist Church, was born in<br \/>\nGibson County, Tenn., June 29, 1848, and is the youngest of two sons born to<br \/>\nChesterfield and Mary (Hurley) Tigrett, of Scotch-Irish descent. His father<br \/>\nwas born in Mississippi, came to Tennessee when a young man, and married in<br \/>\nwhat is now Crockett County in 1840, and was a farmer and cabinet-maker, and<br \/>\nwas a strict member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He died in<br \/>\nCrockett County in 1850. The mother was a native of Crockett County and died<br \/>\nin 1870. Our subject was raised on a farm and received a common school<br \/>\neducation and after attaining his majority he entered the ministry, and has<br \/>\nmade a most earnest and efficient laborer in his Master&#8217;s cause. He has<br \/>\nbaptized 618 persons, married 109 couples, and received into church membership<br \/>\nover 1,000 members. Mr. Tigrett was married in Crockett County, July 19,<br \/>\n1877, to Miss Lizzie A. Nunn, a daughter of Dr. I. A. Nunn, who at one time<br \/>\nrepresented his district in the State Senate. One son, Isaac B., was born to<br \/>\nthis marriage, September 15, 1878. Mrs. Tigrett was born in Crockett County,<br \/>\nat Chestnut Bluff. She is a devout member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Tigrett<br \/>\nis in politics a Democrat, and a Mason. He has now charge of four churches,<br \/>\nwith a membership of more than 700, and is faithful and conscientious in his<br \/>\nwork, generous and sympathetic in his nature. He owns 500 acres of farming<br \/>\nland, and raises cotton and grain, but gives most of his attention to stock<br \/>\nraising, and has a comfortable dwelling, the place being at Hall&#8217;s Station on<br \/>\nthe Newport News &amp; Mississippi Valley Railroad.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Samuel K. Tigrett, a talented minister of the Baptist Church, was born in Gibson County, Tenn., June 29, 1848, and is the youngest of two sons born to Chesterfield and Mary (Hurley) Tigrett, of Scotch-Irish descent. His father was <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/tigrett-rev-samuel-k\/\"><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":[146],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-tigrett"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","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=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3353,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}