{"id":1142,"date":"2024-09-29T20:36:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2024-09-29T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:36:04","slug":"moses-e-deakins-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/moses-e-deakins-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses E. Deakins Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEAKINS, Moses E.,&nbsp;<\/strong>farmer and surveyor; born Marion Co., Tenn., Nov. 30, 1840; German descent; son of&nbsp;<strong>Franklin&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Lydia Harpine (Easterly) DEAKINS<\/strong>; paternal grandparents&nbsp;<strong>Absaiom&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Mary (Brown) DEAKINS;<\/strong>&nbsp;maternal grandparents<strong>&nbsp;Moses and Charlotte Fudge EASTERLY;&nbsp;<\/strong>educated at Athens Seminary; married&nbsp;<strong>Martha Burr HAMMONS<\/strong>, July 21, 1866; Blue Lodge and Chapter Mason; was Clerk and Master Chancery Court, Sequatchie Co., eight years; member of the lower House of the 49<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;General Assembly State of Tennessee; soldier in Confederate army from Sept. 6, 1861, to the termination of the Civil War; placed on Roll of Honor by&nbsp;<strong>President Jefferson DAVIS<\/strong>; was the head of the Tennessee Central Railroad Engineering Department for seven years; member of Primitive Baptist church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEAKINS, Moses E.,&nbsp;farmer and surveyor; born Marion Co., Tenn., Nov. 30, 1840; German descent; son of&nbsp;Franklin&nbsp;and&nbsp;Lydia Harpine (Easterly) DEAKINS; paternal grandparents&nbsp;Absaiom&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mary (Brown) DEAKINS;&nbsp;maternal grandparents&nbsp;Moses and Charlotte Fudge EASTERLY;&nbsp;educated at Athens Seminary; married&nbsp;Martha Burr HAMMONS, July 21, 1866; Blue Lodge and Chapter Mason; was Clerk and Master Chancery Court, Sequatchie Co., eight years; member of the lower House of the 49th&nbsp;General Assembly State of Tennessee; soldier in Confederate army from Sept. 6, 1861, to the termination of the Civil War; placed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/moses-e-deakins-biography\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surname-family-history-website"],"modified_by":"Bettye Seaton Liberty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}