{"id":10790,"date":"2014-03-30T20:29:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T01:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:56:18","slug":"sparks-jesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/sparks-jesse\/","title":{"rendered":"SPARKS, Jesse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Pope<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPARKS, Jesse<\/strong>, farmer; born Nathan, Tenn., Dec. 3, 1860; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Jesse and Mary B. (Patterson) SPARKS<\/strong>; father , blacksmith and farmer; received education at Linden; in early life he engaged in the mercantile business; married <strong>Minervia LEDBETTER<\/strong>, Oct. 16, 1887; Democrat, member 56th General Assembly, Tenn., 1909; is at present engaged in banking and farming.<\/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: Pope SPARKS, Jesse, farmer; born Nathan, Tenn., Dec. 3, 1860; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Jesse and Mary B. (Patterson) SPARKS; father , blacksmith and farmer; received education at Linden; in early life he engaged in the mercantile business; married Minervia LEDBETTER, Oct. 16, 1887; Democrat, member 56th General Assembly, Tenn., 1909; is at present [&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":[54,4062,4419],"tags":[2558,249,1535],"class_list":{"0":"post-10790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-perry","7":"category-whoswho","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-ledbetter","10":"tag-patterson","11":"tag-sparks","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790","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=10790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13666,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions\/13666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}