{"id":11032,"date":"2014-06-10T00:08:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:41:59","slug":"lankford-alexander-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/lankford-alexander-h\/","title":{"rendered":"LANKFORD, Alexander H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Paris<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>LANKFORD, Alexander H.<\/b>, born Carroll Co., Tenn., Oct. 25, 1842; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <b>Henry and Sarah (Hamilton) LANKFORD<\/b>; his father was a farmer; grandson of <b>Thomas LANKFORD<\/b>, Indian fighter; maternal grandfather <b>James HAMILTON<\/b>, soldier of the Revolution; was educated in the country schools of Henry Co.; married <b>Lucie JENNIGAN<\/b>; was farmer in early life; entered Confederate army May 1861, serving as 1<sup>st<\/sup> corporal in all battles from New Madrid, Mo., in which Cheatham Division was engaged, to Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 16, 1864; was there captured and made prisoner of war until the surrender; was in postal service in 1886; county tax assessor in 1888; later engaged in merchandise and insurance business; was in charge of Masonic Widows &amp; Orphans Home 1898-1902; later became traveling salesman; Democrat; member Masons, Blue Lodge, Chapter, K. T.; member Presbyterian church, U. S. A.<\/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 LANKFORD, Alexander H., born Carroll Co., Tenn., Oct. 25, 1842; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Henry and Sarah (Hamilton) LANKFORD; his father was a farmer; grandson of Thomas LANKFORD, Indian fighter; maternal grandfather James HAMILTON, soldier of the Revolution; was educated in the country schools of Henry Co.; married Lucie JENNIGAN; was farmer in [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,363,81,4062,4419],"tags":[4350,3616,1972],"class_list":{"0":"post-11032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carroll","7":"category-henry","8":"category-surname-l","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-hamilton","12":"tag-jennigan","13":"tag-lankford","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032","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=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13760,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions\/13760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}