{"id":449,"date":"2012-11-13T23:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T05:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/?p=449"},"modified":"2012-11-13T23:38:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T05:38:43","slug":"church-robert-r-contributes-1000-for-confederate-veterans-reunion-entertainment-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/church-robert-r-contributes-1000-for-confederate-veterans-reunion-entertainment-1901\/","title":{"rendered":"CHURCH, Robert R. &#8211; Contributes $1,000 for Confederate Veterans Reunion Entertaiment (1901)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The announcement comes from Memphis, Tenn., that <\/span><strong style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Robert R. CHURCH<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">, believed to be one of the wealthiest colored men in the South, has contributed over $1,000 for the entertainment of the\u00a0Confederate\u00a0Veterans at their annual reunion in that city in May next. \u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">CHURCH<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"> was born a slave in Mississippi and spent his early days on a Mississippi steamboat , of which his master was the owner and captain,. (pg. 1)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source: Roanoke Beacon newspaper of Plymouth, NC. \u00a0February 15, 1901. \u00a0pg. 1<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Notes:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/?q=aah\/robert-reed-church-sr-1839-1912\" target=\"_blank\">read more about Robert Reed Church at BlackPast.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement comes from Memphis, Tenn., that Robert R. CHURCH, believed to be one of the wealthiest colored men in the South, has contributed over $1,000 for the entertainment of the\u00a0Confederate\u00a0Veterans at their annual reunion in that city in May next. \u00a0CHURCH was born a slave in Mississippi and spent his early days on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/church-robert-r-contributes-1000-for-confederate-veterans-reunion-entertainment-1901\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHURCH, Robert R. &#8211; Contributes $1,000 for Confederate Veterans Reunion Entertaiment (1901)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,8],"tags":[146],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-newsarticle","tag-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}