{"id":403,"date":"2013-06-12T22:26:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/?p=403"},"modified":"2013-05-19T22:26:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T22:26:54","slug":"banker-chris-c-d-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/banker-chris-c-d-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"BANKER, Chris C. (d. 1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Van Buren Man Fatally Wounded<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A 39-year-old truck operator was fatally injured late Sunday afternoon when a fellow Van Buren countian is alleged to have fired a double-barrel shotgun blast into his mid-section in an altercation reported to have taken place near a club, located on McMinnville highway, \u00bd mile from Spencer. <strong>C.C. (Chris) Banker<\/strong>, of Spencer, died of wounds received in the shooting which was reported to have occurred about 5 o&#8217;clock Sunday afternoon. A Nashville newspaper quoted <strong>police Chief Claude Baker<\/strong>, of Spencer, as stating that Banker was shot by a man identified as <strong>Floyd Sullivan<\/strong>, after an argument between the two men. It was reported that Sullivan fired both barrels of a double barrel shotgun at Banker and that the slain man fired back after he had been shot. Funeral services for Banker were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o&#8217;clock at his Spencer home. <strong>Rev. Simmons<\/strong> officiated and burial took place in McElroy cemetery under the direction of High&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Southern Standard, McMinnville,TN.\u00a0 Aug. 12, 1949.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">[Contributor:\u00a0 Maxine Reggio, 2001]<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Buren Man Fatally Wounded\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 A 39-year-old truck operator was fatally injured late Sunday afternoon when a fellow Van Buren countian is alleged to have fired a double-barrel shotgun blast into his mid-section in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/banker-chris-c-d-1949\/\"><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":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[25,218,220,219],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-baker","tag-banker","tag-simmons","tag-sullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}