{"id":11903,"date":"2015-10-09T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11903"},"modified":"2023-06-17T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T14:23:36","slug":"bearden-walter-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/bearden-walter-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"BEARDEN, Walter Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Shelbyville<\/p>\n<p><b>BEARDEN, Walter Scott<\/b>, lawyer, Chancellor Fifth Chancery Division; born Petersburg, Lincoln County, Tenn., January 10, 1843; son of <strong>Benjamin<\/strong> <b>Franklin and Susan Margaret (Blake) BEARDEN<\/b>; father\u2019s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents <b>Benj. F. and (Wright) BEARDEN<\/b>, maternal grandparents <b>John W. and Mary (Morgan) BLAKE<\/b>; Scotch, Irish, French and Huguenot descent; educated Emory and Henry College, Va.; left college to go to war; taught school summer of 1861; made speeches every Saturday to help raise a company of infantry; taught school at 15 and was teacher of a large school at 16; married <b>Margaret Cooper WHITESIDE<\/b>, February 17, 1874; member F. &amp; A. M., Tannehill Chapter, R. A. M., Murfressboro <i>\/sic\/<\/i> Commandery K. T., Trinity Consistory No. 2, Nashville, Tenn., Scottish Rite, 32 degree Mason, honorary member Century Club, Columbia, Tenn.; elected Chancellor Fourth Chancery Division in 1886; was Chancellor of that division for sixteen years; became Chancellor of Fifth Chancery Division 1902; served in army of C. S. A.; promoted once and tendered another; finally Captain, July, 1864; was wounded in battle at Peachtree Creek; wounded later July, 1864, near Atlanta, and later at battle of Jonesboro; August 31, 1864, was captured at surrender of Fort Donelson; paroled Meridian, Miss., 1865; has served as Chancellor in a large chancery division for twenty-four years continuously, and was again elected in 1910; member of Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/em>.<\/span> Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Shelbyville BEARDEN, Walter Scott, lawyer, Chancellor Fifth Chancery Division; born Petersburg, Lincoln County, Tenn., January 10, 1843; son of Benjamin Franklin and Susan Margaret (Blake) BEARDEN; father\u2019s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents Benj. F. and (Wright) BEARDEN, maternal grandparents John W. and Mary (Morgan) BLAKE; Scotch, Irish, French and Huguenot descent; educated Emory and Henry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15372,"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":[14,329,4405,4062,4418],"tags":[2314,3200,4367,3844,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-11903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bedford","8":"category-lincoln","9":"category-surname-b","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-yes","12":"tag-bearden","13":"tag-blake","14":"tag-morgan","15":"tag-whiteside","16":"tag-wright","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15996,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions\/15996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}