{"id":11024,"date":"2014-06-10T00:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T05:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11024"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:26:14","slug":"diggs-pleasant-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/diggs-pleasant-james\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGGS, Pleasant James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Paris<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>DIGGS, Pleasant James<\/b> farmer; born Henry Co., Tenn., Nov. 10, 1833; English-Irish descent; son of <b>Benj. H. and Mary Barly (Erwin) DIGGS<\/b>; his father was a farmer; received education in the common schools of Henry Co., and Andrew College, Trenton, Tenn.; he taught school until the war; married <b>Margaret A. ALEXANDER<\/b> Aug. 20, 1863; enlisted in war in 1861, joining an independent company of cavalry, organized by <b>Capt. STOCKS<\/b>, of Miss., this company being composed entirely of the youths of Henry Co.; he held position of 1<sup>st<\/sup> corporal; later was made 2<sup>nd<\/sup> sergeant, Company G., of the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Tenn. Regt., under command of <b>Col. Wm. JACKSON<\/b>, of Jackson, Tenn.; Mason and member Methodist church.<\/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: Paris DIGGS, Pleasant James farmer; born Henry Co., Tenn., Nov. 10, 1833; English-Irish descent; son of Benj. H. and Mary Barly (Erwin) DIGGS; his father was a farmer; received education in the common schools of Henry Co., and Andrew College, Trenton, Tenn.; he taught school until the war; married Margaret A. ALEXANDER Aug. 20, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2320,363,4408,4062,4419],"tags":[185,3609,434,4391,3610],"class_list":["post-11024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-andrew-college","category-henry","category-surname-d","category-whoswho","category-x_featured-image-no","tag-alexander","tag-diggs","tag-erwin","tag-jackson","tag-stocks","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13754,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions\/13754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}