{"id":132,"date":"2013-05-22T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/?p=132"},"modified":"2013-05-20T01:48:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:48:59","slug":"griffits-jacob-lafayette-b-1869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/griffits-jacob-lafayette-b-1869\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIFFITS, Jacob Lafayette (b. 1869)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Dunlap<\/p>\n<p><strong>GRIFFITTS, Jacob Lafayette,\u00a0<\/strong>clergyman; born in Loudon Co., Tenn., Nov. 14, 1869; Welsh and Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0<strong>John Wesley<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Mary E. (Donaldson) GRIFFITTS;<\/strong>\u00a0paternal grandparents,\u00a0<strong>Emanuel\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Rachel (Jenkins) GRIFFITTS<\/strong>; maternal grandparents<strong>\u00a0James H. and Lucinda (Matthews) DONALDSON;<\/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\u00a0<strong>Permelia CABLE<\/strong>\u00a0Sept. 3, 1902; member M. E. Church, South; F. &amp; A. M. Knights of Pythias, I. O. O. F., Woodmen of the World.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<i>Who&#8217;s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Dunlap GRIFFITTS, Jacob Lafayette,\u00a0clergyman; born in Loudon Co., Tenn., Nov. 14, 1869; Welsh and Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0John Wesley\u00a0and\u00a0Mary E. (Donaldson) GRIFFITTS;\u00a0paternal grandparents,\u00a0Emanuel\u00a0and\u00a0Rachel (Jenkins) GRIFFITTS; maternal grandparents\u00a0James H. and Lucinda (Matthews) DONALDSON;educated at Unitia Academy Unitia, Tenn., and graduated <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/griffits-jacob-lafayette-b-1869\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[19],"tags":[36,33,32,34,35],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","tag-cable","tag-donaldson","tag-griffits","tag-jenkins","tag-matthews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sequatchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}