{"id":11511,"date":"2013-12-25T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T02:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11511"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:55:56","slug":"smith-homer-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/smith-homer-h\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, Homer H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Birchwood<\/p>\n<p><strong>SMITH, Homer, H<\/strong>., attornery-at-law; born Sullivan Co., Tenn., Nov. 25, 1869; Irish-English descent; son of <strong>George W. and Elizabeth (Cross) SMITH<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer; paternal grandfather <strong>John Umphreys SMITH<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Malinda (Matthews) SMITH<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Rev. William K. CROSS<\/strong>, maternal grandmother<strong> Louzena (Cross) CROSS;<\/strong> received common school education; married <strong>Fannie M. MASSENGILL <\/strong>June 9, 1904; Democrat; in early life taught school; read law under <strong>Col. Chas. R VANCE,<\/strong> Bristol (Tenn.) and admitted to bar at Blountville, Tenn., Nov.1893; engaged in practice of law since March 1894; attorney for Farmers&#8217; Bank of Sullivan Co., and a director in same; member of Christian church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Source: Who&#8217;s 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: Birchwood SMITH, Homer, H., attornery-at-law; born Sullivan Co., Tenn., Nov. 25, 1869; Irish-English descent; son of George W. and Elizabeth (Cross) SMITH; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer; paternal grandfather John Umphreys SMITH, paternal grandmother Malinda (Matthews) SMITH, maternal grandfather Rev. William K. CROSS, maternal grandmother Louzena (Cross) CROSS; received common school education; married Fannie M. MASSENGILL [&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":[663,88,4062,4419],"tags":[1357,3072,50,4356,2517],"class_list":{"0":"post-11511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sullivan","7":"category-surname-s","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-cross","11":"tag-massengill","12":"tag-matthews","13":"tag-smith","14":"tag-vance","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511","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=11511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12684,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511\/revisions\/12684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}