{"id":1253,"date":"2012-09-02T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:29:28","slug":"ewing-thomas-polk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/ewing-thomas-polk\/","title":{"rendered":"EWING, Thomas Polk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Clarksville<\/p>\n<p><strong>EWING, Thomas Polk<\/strong>, farmer; born Hampton, Tenn., April 19, 1884; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Finis and Danglus (Polk) EWING<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandfather <strong>Thomas EWING<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Prity (Fort) EWING<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Irvin POLK<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Faneris (Wilson) POLK<\/strong>; educated Cumberland City Academy and graduated from same 1901; member of Elks; he was elected Justice of Peace in 1907, and in 1910 elected representative of Montgomery and Houston counties in Lower House Tenn. General Assembly; in 1908-09 served as a member of the county board of education of Montgomery Co., and also a member of the highway committee 1908-09; in 1908 was chairman of the Planters\u2019 Protective Association; has engaged in farming all of his life; member of the Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Clarksville EWING, Thomas Polk, farmer; born Hampton, Tenn., April 19, 1884; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Finis and Danglus (Polk) EWING; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandfather Thomas EWING, paternal grandmother Prity (Fort) EWING, maternal grandfather Irvin POLK, maternal grandmother Faneris (Wilson) POLK; educated Cumberland City Academy and graduated from same 1901; member of Elks; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,907,600,4409,4419],"tags":[515,8,4363,4341],"class_list":{"0":"post-1253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carter","7":"category-cumberland-city-academy","8":"category-montgomery","9":"category-surname-e","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-ewing","12":"tag-fort","13":"tag-polk","14":"tag-wilson","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","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=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15052,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}