{"id":10361,"date":"2014-01-20T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T02:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10361"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:14","slug":"pentecost-richard-henry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/pentecost-richard-henry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PENTECOST, Richard Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>PENTECOST, Richard Henry<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">, contractor; born Charlotte Co., Va., Oct. 29, 1855; English descent; son of <\/span><b>Richard J. and Mary Jane (DAVISON) PENTECOST;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> educated in local schools of Campbell and Pittsylvania Counties, Va.; in early life was connected with a railroad in maintenance department; prior to 1881 he was a planter in Va.; continued in railroad service as roadmaster with N. C. &amp; St. L. R. R.; engaged in quarrying stone and gravel for building purposes in Decatur Co., Tenn., after leaving railroad service; at present he is contractor and dealer in building materials; married <\/span><b>Mary Jane E. COLLINS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">, Feb. 6, 1879; member of Masons (Blue Lodge), W. O. W., and Business Men\u2019s Club; Democrat; Christian Scientist.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis PENTECOST, Richard Henry, contractor; born Charlotte Co., Va., Oct. 29, 1855; English descent; son of Richard J. and Mary Jane (DAVISON) PENTECOST; educated in local schools of Campbell and Pittsylvania Counties, Va.; in early life was connected with a railroad in maintenance department; prior to 1881 he was a planter in Va.; continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,261,85,4062,4419],"tags":[942,1315,3272],"class_list":{"0":"post-10361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-decatur","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-p","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-collins","12":"tag-davison","13":"tag-pentecost","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13242,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions\/13242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}