{"id":10852,"date":"2014-03-18T03:51:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T08:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10852"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:47:41","slug":"morris-thomas-overton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/morris-thomas-overton\/","title":{"rendered":"MORRIS, Thomas Overton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Obion<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORRIS, Thomas Overton<\/strong>, lawyer; born Troy, Tenn., Sept. 28, 1879; son of <strong>George P. and Ella C. (WILSON) MORRIS<\/strong>, paternal grandfather <strong>Thomas O. MORRIS<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Bessie (BUCKLEY) MORRIS<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>William WILSON<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Nancy A. (CARUTHERS) WILSON<\/strong>; Scotch-Irish descent; educated Obion and Glass, Tenn.; graduate of Southern Normal University, Huntingdon, Tenn., A. B. 1899; member K. of P.; I. O. O. F.; has been engaged in practice of law at Obion since July 1902.<\/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: Obion MORRIS, Thomas Overton, lawyer; born Troy, Tenn., Sept. 28, 1879; son of George P. and Ella C. (WILSON) MORRIS, paternal grandfather Thomas O. MORRIS, paternal grandmother Bessie (BUCKLEY) MORRIS, maternal grandfather William WILSON, maternal grandmother Nancy A. (CARUTHERS) WILSON; Scotch-Irish descent; educated Obion and Glass, Tenn.; graduate of Southern Normal University, Huntingdon, Tenn., [&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":[809,452,82,4062,4419],"tags":[1880,752,465,4341],"class_list":{"0":"post-10852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-obion","7":"category-southern-normal-university","8":"category-surname-m","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-buckley","12":"tag-caruthers","13":"tag-morris","14":"tag-wilson","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852","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=10852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13620,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions\/13620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}