{"id":11162,"date":"2015-02-15T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T02:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11162"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:40:46","slug":"kennedy-marion-sawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/kennedy-marion-sawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"KENNEDY, Marion Sawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Pulaski<\/p>\n<p><b>KENNEDY, Marion Sawyer, <\/b>minister of the gospel; born Camp Creek, Greene Co., Tenn.; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <b>James F.<\/b> and <b>Katherine (McGaughey) KENNEDY<\/b>; father merchant; attended the village schools of Cornersville, Tenn., later was under private tutorage of Rev. Wm. Stoddert, D.D., of Lynnville, Tenn.; graduated from William and Mary College, A. B., 1877, and from Union Theological Seminary, Hampden Sidney, Va., B. D., 1881; married <b>Carrie Celeste HARRIS, <\/b>June 25, 1885; licensed to preach Aug. 27, 1881, by the Presbytery of Columbia; ordained April 1, 1882; pastor Lewisburg church in 1882, Bethberei church, 1888; served both these churches as stated supply from July, 1881, to the time of installation as pastor, respectively; installed pastor Presbyterian church, Pulaski, Tenn., 1892; his great, great grandfather, <b>Col. Daniel KENNEDY<\/b>, fought under John Sevier, the first governor of Tenn., at King&#8217;s Mountain, Oct. 7, 1780; his sword used in that battle being now in possession of the family.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/\">Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/a><\/em>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Pulaski KENNEDY, Marion Sawyer, minister of the gospel; born Camp Creek, Greene Co., Tenn.; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James F. and Katherine (McGaughey) KENNEDY; father merchant; attended the village schools of Cornersville, Tenn., later was under private tutorage of Rev. Wm. Stoddert, D.D., of Lynnville, Tenn.; graduated from William and Mary College, A. B., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[205,254,80,4062,4419],"tags":[994,912,1788],"class_list":{"0":"post-11162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giles","7":"category-greene","8":"category-surname-k","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-harris","12":"tag-kennedy","13":"tag-mcgaughey","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14411,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions\/14411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}