{"id":224,"date":"2011-10-31T20:28:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T01:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=224"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:05:44","slug":"goodspeed-biography-of-robert-c-m-cunnyngham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/goodspeed-biography-of-robert-c-m-cunnyngham\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodspeed Biography of Robert C. M. Cunnyngham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert C. M. <strong>Cunnyngham<\/strong>, a prominent attorney of Spring City, Rhea Co., Tenn., was born in that county, February 25, 1848, and is the son of Wiley H. and Elvina (<strong>Locke<\/strong>) Cunnyngham.\u00a0 The father died in Rhea County, Tenn., in 1862, at the age of fifty-two.\u00a0 He was a farmer and merchant, and, the latter part of his life, was tax collector of Rhea County. He had a good education, was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and a Whig in politics.\u00a0 The mother&#8217;s ancestors were from Ireland, and her father came to Rhea County, and was one of the first settlers of that region.\u00a0 He was a farmer, trader and blacksmith, and before his death had accumulated considerable property.\u00a0 The mother of our subject was born in Rhea County, about 1817. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 Of their eight, children, all are now living.\u00a0 Our subject received a liberal education.\u00a0 He taught school in Bledsoe County, and then went to Saline County, Ark., where he continued teaching. He afterward went to Texas, and traveled extensively over the State, and then came back to Rhea County.\u00a0 While in Arkansas, he began to read law with Judge W. L. McKinley.\u00a0 After coming back to Rhea County, he completed his course with Judge F. Locke.\u00a0 In 1874 he was admitted to the bar in Washington, Rhea County, and practiced his profession there for two years, after which he went to Rhea Springs. Four years later he moved to Spring City, where he has built up a good practice.\u00a0 He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, is a Mason, both Master and Chapter, and is a Democrat.\u00a0 May 30, 1876, Miss Julia B. Blevins, a native of Meigs County, born in 1850, became his wife.\u00a0 To them have been born five children. Those living are John W. C., Nora A., Robert L. C. and Jennie. Ortho J. died in infancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><em>Published by The Goodspeed Publishing Co 1887<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert C. M. Cunnyngham, a prominent attorney of Spring City, Rhea Co., Tenn., was born in that county, February 25, 1848, and is the son of Wiley H. and Elvina (Locke) Cunnyngham.\u00a0 The father died in Rhea County, Tenn., in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/goodspeed-biography-of-robert-c-m-cunnyngham\/\">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":[33,52,24],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodspeed","tag-blevins","tag-cunnyngham","tag-locke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}