{"id":10770,"date":"2014-02-07T21:51:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T03:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:05","slug":"peak-mellville-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/peak-mellville-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"PEAK, Mellville Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Pinhook Landing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>PEAK, Mellville Cox<\/strong>, merchant; born Pin Hook Landing, 1870; son of <strong>W.C. and Nancy (Matlock) PEAK<\/strong>; Irish descent; father, merchant and planter; paternal grandparents <strong>Jacob and Kesiah (Prigmore) PEAK<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>William and Sallie (Dodson) MATLOCK<\/strong>; educated in Decatur High School; married<strong> Iva SHERMAN<\/strong>, April 10, 1901; began life as farmer; in mercantile business until 1907, since which time he has been a commercial traveler; is also Coroner and Notary Public; member Woodmen of the World and Commercial Travelers; Democrat.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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: Pinhook Landing PEAK, Mellville Cox, merchant; born Pin Hook Landing, 1870; son of W.C. and Nancy (Matlock) PEAK; Irish descent; father, merchant and planter; paternal grandparents Jacob and Kesiah (Prigmore) PEAK, maternal grandparents William and Sallie (Dodson) MATLOCK; educated in Decatur High School; married Iva SHERMAN, April 10, 1901; began life as farmer; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"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":[643,4062,4419],"tags":[1553,2611,2126,4152,4153],"class_list":{"0":"post-10770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-meigs","7":"category-whoswho","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-dodson","10":"tag-matlock","11":"tag-peak","12":"tag-prigmore","13":"tag-sherman","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13564,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions\/13564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}