{"id":218,"date":"2011-10-31T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:06:17","slug":"goodspeed-biography-of-jonathan-m-caldwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/goodspeed-biography-of-jonathan-m-caldwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodspeed Biography of Jonathan M. Caldwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan M. <strong>Caldwell<\/strong>, farmer of Spring City, Rhea Co., Tenn., was born in that city May 11, 1819, and is the son of David and Elizabeth (<strong>Givens<\/strong>) <strong>Caldwell<\/strong>.\u00a0 The father came to Rhea County about 1818, was a farmer by occupation, and a Democrat in politics. The mother was born in Blount County, Tenn., and both died in Rhea County.\u00a0 Three children are now living of the twelve born to this union, our subject being the eldest. \u00a0 He secured his education in the home schools, and remained at home until his thirtieth year, when he was elected sheriff for three terms; he also collected taxes one or two years; he then purchased land near Spring City, and here he has since remained.\u00a0 He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Masonic fraternity, and an excellent citizen.\u00a0 In 1858 he married Miss Victoria <strong>Darwin<\/strong>, a native of Rhea County, born about 1839.\u00a0 This union resulted in the birth of eleven children; Nettie, Walter A., Nancy A., James A., Vesta, Eva, Jessie, Kittie, Cecil and Edwin; Calla died when six years of age.\u00a0 In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate Army, Company B, Twenty-sixth Tennessee Infantry, was made lieutenant, and was in the service until failure of health.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Published by The Goodspeed Publishing Co 1887<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan M. Caldwell, farmer of Spring City, Rhea Co., Tenn., was born in that city May 11, 1819, and is the son of David and Elizabeth (Givens) Caldwell.\u00a0 The father came to Rhea County about 1818, was a farmer by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/goodspeed-biography-of-jonathan-m-caldwell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[48,50,49],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodspeed","tag-caldwell","tag-darwin","tag-givens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}