{"id":12106,"date":"2014-06-16T00:39:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T05:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12106"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:25:51","slug":"davis-powhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/davis-powhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVIS, Powhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Tiptonville<\/p>\n<p><b>DAVIS, Powhattan<\/b>, banker; born Union Co., Tenn., Jan. 22, 1847; English descent; son of <b>James and Rebecca (Dalton) DAVIS<\/b>; father, farmer, lawyer and slave owner; educated in private schools of Obion Co., Tenn.; married <b>Sarah EAGAN<\/b>, Jan. 2, 1878; independent Democrat; served as Clerk and Master of Chancery Court of Lake Co., Tenn., 1870-1898, chairman of the Co. Court, 1900-1911; enlisted in Co. K. 2d Tenn. Cavalry under\u00a0Forrest as private from April, 1864, to close of war; entered banking business at Tiptonville, Tenn., 1899, and is now cashier of People\u2019s Bank at Tiptonville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Tiptonville DAVIS, Powhattan, banker; born Union Co., Tenn., Jan. 22, 1847; English descent; son of James and Rebecca (Dalton) DAVIS; father, farmer, lawyer and slave owner; educated in private schools of Obion Co., Tenn.; married Sarah EAGAN, Jan. 2, 1878; independent Democrat; served as Clerk and Master of Chancery Court of Lake Co., Tenn., [&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":[806,809,4408,815,4062,4419],"tags":[2036,318,3912],"class_list":{"0":"post-12106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lake","7":"category-obion","8":"category-surname-d","9":"category-union","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-dalton","13":"tag-davis","14":"tag-eagan","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106","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=12106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13897,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106\/revisions\/13897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}