{"id":11060,"date":"2014-06-11T00:20:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T05:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:56:18","slug":"spicer-james-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/spicer-james-r\/","title":{"rendered":"SPICER, James R."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Paris<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>SPICER, James R.<\/b>, funeral director; born Humphreys Co., Tenn., Sept. 10, 1858; Irish descent; son of <b>Charley and Eliza (Long) SPICER<\/b>; father was a farmer; educated Edgewood Normal College on Yellow Creek, Dickson Co., Tenn.; began his career as clerk and office boy for <b>Dan RICE<\/b> at Tennessee City, Tenn., in 1871-1875, and clerked for William Pickett &amp; Bro. at Dickson, Tenn., in 1876-1880, then entered mercantile business as partner of <b>H. E. PICKETT<\/b>, in which business he continued three years, when he entered general mercantile business and undertaker in Dickson, Tenn., until 1900, at which time he moved to Paris and entered present business of undertaker; was President of Undertaker and Ambulance Assn. of Tenn., 1906-1907; married <b>Ida B. WILLIAM<\/b>, May 13, 1883; member Royal Arch Masons, I. O. O. F., K. of P. and Elks, has passed all chairs, Noble Grand in I. O. O. F., Chancellor Commander in K. of P. and High Priest in Royal Arch Masons; Democrat; Member of 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 SPICER, James R., funeral director; born Humphreys Co., Tenn., Sept. 10, 1858; Irish descent; son of Charley and Eliza (Long) SPICER; father was a farmer; educated Edgewood Normal College on Yellow Creek, Dickson Co., Tenn.; began his career as clerk and office boy for Dan RICE at Tennessee City, Tenn., in 1871-1875, and [&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":[199,3506,363,88,4062,4419],"tags":[236,4380,333,3606,3633],"class_list":{"0":"post-11060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dickson","7":"category-edgewood-normal-school","8":"category-henry","9":"category-surname-s","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-long","13":"tag-pickett","14":"tag-rice","15":"tag-spicer","16":"tag-william","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","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=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13761,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/13761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}