{"id":1151,"date":"2024-09-29T20:42:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2024-09-29T20:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:49:02","slug":"jacob-lafayette-griffitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/jacob-lafayette-griffitts\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Lafayette Griffitts Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GRIFFITTS, Jacob Lafayette,&nbsp;<\/strong>clergyman; born in Loudon Co., Tenn., Nov. 14, 1869; Welsh and Scotch-Irish descent; son of&nbsp;<strong>John Wesley<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Mary E. (Donaldson) GRIFFITTS;<\/strong>&nbsp;paternal grandparents,&nbsp;<strong>Emanuel&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Rachel (Jenkins) GRIFFITTS<\/strong>; maternal grandparents<strong>&nbsp;James H. and Lucinda (Matthews) DONALDSON;&nbsp;<\/strong>educated at Unitia Academy Unitia, Tenn., and graduated from Moody Bible Institute Chicago, Ill., 1900; began life in the mercantile business; joined the Holston Conference of M. E. church, South, at Morristown, Tenn., 1903; ordained Deacon, 1903, ordained Elder 1910 Chattanooga, Tenn.; served the following charges, viz: Decatur, Dunlap and Mountain City, all in Tenn.; married&nbsp;<strong>Permelia CABLE<\/strong>&nbsp;Sept. 3, 1902; member M. E. Church, South; F. &amp; A. M. Knights of Pythias, I. O. O. F., Woodmen of the World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRIFFITTS, Jacob Lafayette,&nbsp;clergyman; born in Loudon Co., Tenn., Nov. 14, 1869; Welsh and Scotch-Irish descent; son of&nbsp;John Wesley&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mary E. (Donaldson) GRIFFITTS;&nbsp;paternal grandparents,&nbsp;Emanuel&nbsp;and&nbsp;Rachel (Jenkins) GRIFFITTS; maternal grandparents&nbsp;James H. and Lucinda (Matthews) DONALDSON;&nbsp;educated at Unitia Academy Unitia, Tenn., and graduated from Moody Bible Institute Chicago, Ill., 1900; began life in the mercantile business; joined the Holston Conference of M. E. church, South, at Morristown, Tenn., 1903; ordained Deacon, 1903, ordained Elder 1910 Chattanooga, Tenn.; served the following charges, viz: Decatur, Dunlap and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/jacob-lafayette-griffitts\/\"> 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":"no","_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-1151","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\/1151","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=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}