{"id":10775,"date":"2014-03-29T20:24:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10775"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:45:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:45:26","slug":"mays-rufus-adolphus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/mays-rufus-adolphus\/","title":{"rendered":"MAYS, Rufus Adolphus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Pinson<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAYS, Rufus Adolphus<\/strong>, banker; born Madison Co., Tenn., Jan. 18, 1839; Irish-German descent; son of <strong>James Gay and Catherine (Fulbright) MAYS<\/strong>; father was a farmer; received common school education; he was a farmer in early life; married <strong>Nancy Green DAVIS<\/strong>, Dec. 27, 1865; represented the County in Legislature, 1904-1905; was County Surveyor for number of years; served in Confederate army, holding rank of Capt. Co. C, 6th Tenn. Reg.; captured Aug. 27, 1863; sent as prisoner of war to Alton, Ill., then to Camp Chase, Ohio, then to Fort Delaware, where he was released March 7, 1865; fought in all battles in which the army of Tenn. was engaged, never having been wounded; cashier Pinson Savings bank; member Pinson Lodge of F. &amp; A.M.; Democrat; member M.E. church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s 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: Pinson MAYS, Rufus Adolphus, banker; born Madison Co., Tenn., Jan. 18, 1839; Irish-German descent; son of James Gay and Catherine (Fulbright) MAYS; father was a farmer; received common school education; he was a farmer in early life; married Nancy Green DAVIS, Dec. 27, 1865; represented the County in Legislature, 1904-1905; was County Surveyor for [&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":[36,4062,4419],"tags":[318,4158,4157],"class_list":{"0":"post-10775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-madison","7":"category-whoswho","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-davis","10":"tag-fulbright","11":"tag-mays","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775","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=10775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}