{"id":366,"date":"2011-11-05T05:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T10:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=366"},"modified":"2011-11-05T05:06:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T10:06:28","slug":"blevins-family-moves-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/blevins-family-moves-to-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Blevins Family Moves to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Henry <strong>Blevins<\/strong> (1855-1929), the youngest child of John Torbett <strong>Blevins<\/strong> and his wife, Florence Elizabeth (<strong>Pass<\/strong>) <strong>Blevins<\/strong> (1864-1915), moved their family from Spring City, Rhea, TN to Lake Creek, Lamar, TX in the late1890s. John was a farmer. His house was once featured in the Paris, TX newspaper. They had eight children. Luna (1883-1887) is buried in or near Spring City. Roy (1884-1968) was a barber in Paris, TX. Rufo moved back to Tennessee where he was a barber. Lawrence (1892-1954) Moved to Memphis, TX where he was a farmer. Lester (1893-1953) was a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, a carpenter, and a farmer. Clayton (1898-1973) inherited the family farm. Robert (1899-1900) died in infancy. Paul (1902-1983) moved to Memphis, TX where he was a barber. After Elizabeth died, John moved to Memphis, TX, to live with Lawrence, where he eventually remarried. A niece describes him as a &#8220;tall, good-looking, gray-haired, southern gentleman.&#8221; Clayton&#8217;s son, Bill <strong>Blevins<\/strong>, still operates the family farm. Lester was my grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Vab78230@aol.com\">Alton Blevins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Henry Blevins (1855-1929), the youngest child of John Torbett Blevins and his wife, Florence Elizabeth (Pass) Blevins (1864-1915), moved their family from Spring City, Rhea, TN to Lake Creek, Lamar, TX in the late1890s. John was a farmer. His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/blevins-family-moves-to-texas\/\">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":[134,6],"tags":[33,146],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exodus","category-people","tag-blevins","tag-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}