{"id":11480,"date":"2013-11-16T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11480"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:26:45","slug":"dowdy-earl-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/dowdy-earl-h\/","title":{"rendered":"DOWDY, Earl H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Big Sandy<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWDY, Earl H.<\/strong>, farmer; born in Henry Co., Tenn., July 2, 1878; English descent; son of <strong>Henry and Angeline (Marbry) DOWDY<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, farming; received common school education; in early life clerked in a confectionery store, later took up farming, in which business he is now engaged at Big Sandy, Tenn.; married <strong>Clara PIERCE<\/strong> Aug. 6, 1899; member F. E. and C. U. of A., F. &amp; A. M. (Senior Warden), M. W. A., Pres. of Farmers&#8217; Union of Benton Co., Tenn.; Republican; Justice of the Peace, Notary Public; elected President of Farmers Bank of Big Sandy, Tenn., Nov. 4, 1909; elected as member of Tenn. State Executive Committee of Farmers; Union Sept., 1910; member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; was alternate lay delegate to general conference of M. E. church, which met in Baltimore, Md., in 1908.<\/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: Big Sandy DOWDY, Earl H., farmer; born in Henry Co., Tenn., July 2, 1878; English descent; son of Henry and Angeline (Marbry) DOWDY; father&#8217;s occupation, farming; received common school education; in early life clerked in a confectionery store, later took up farming, in which business he is now engaged at Big Sandy, Tenn.; married [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[15,363,4408,4062,4419],"tags":[3730,3731,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-11480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-benton","7":"category-henry","8":"category-surname-d","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-dowdy","12":"tag-marbry","13":"tag-pierce","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13288,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions\/13288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}