{"id":1255,"date":"2012-09-02T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T14:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:30:13","slug":"fort-dancey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/fort-dancey\/","title":{"rendered":"FORT, Dancey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Clarksville<\/p>\n<p><strong>FORT, Dancey<\/strong>, attorney at law; born Adams, Tenn., Oct. 11, 1870; French-Huguenot descent; son of <strong>Josiah W. and Eliza Penelope (Dancey) FORT<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, Baptist minister; paternal grandfather <strong>Joel B. FORT<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Nancy (Metcalf) FORT<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>William Exum DANCEY<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Nancy Hodges (Deggs) DANCEY<\/strong>; educated public schools and University of Tenn.; graduated Cumberland University with degree of LL.B. June 20, 1891; member of Odd Fellows, Elks and Knights of Pythias; married <strong>Benjamin GILL<\/strong> Nov. 11, 1896; in early life worked on a farm; admitted to bar Clarksville, Tenn., Sept. 21, 1891; chairman executive Democratic committee in Montgomery Co. 8 years; State Senator 1906-1910; City Attorney Clarksville, Tenn.; trustee and treasurer Odd Fellows Home; member of law firm of Savage &amp; Fort, Clarksville; member of Baptist church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Clarksville FORT, Dancey, attorney at law; born Adams, Tenn., Oct. 11, 1870; French-Huguenot descent; son of Josiah W. and Eliza Penelope (Dancey) FORT; father\u2019s occupation, Baptist minister; paternal grandfather Joel B. FORT, paternal grandmother Nancy (Metcalf) FORT, maternal grandfather William Exum DANCEY, maternal grandmother Nancy Hodges (Deggs) DANCEY; educated public schools and University of [&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":[31,600,5,4410,418,4419],"tags":[908,12,8,910,909],"class_list":{"0":"post-1255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-montgomery","8":"category-robertson","9":"category-surname-f","10":"category-university-of-tennessee","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-dancey","13":"tag-deggs","14":"tag-fort","15":"tag-gill","16":"tag-metcalf","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","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=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15098,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/15098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}