{"id":14281,"date":"2014-08-31T00:51:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T05:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=14281"},"modified":"2023-06-17T09:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T14:33:06","slug":"john-h-adkerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/john-h-adkerson\/","title":{"rendered":"ADKERSON, John H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Col. John H. ADKERSON<\/b>, an enterprising farmer, was born in this county and State October 15, 1831, and is the son of <b>James A. and Percilla (Jones) ADKERSON<\/b>, both natives of Virginia. \u00a0The father was one of the early settlers of this county, coming here in 1820. \u00a0He was one of the leading farmers of the county, and his death, which occurred December 3, 1853, was a sad shock to all who knew him. \u00a0The mother died September 12, 1877. \u00a0The subject of our sketch, <strong>John H.<\/strong>, was reared on the farm and received his education in the county schools. \u00a0At the age of twenty-one he took charge of his father\u2019s farm, and in the year 1861 enlisted in Company I., Forty-fifth Tennessee Regiment, as first lieutenant, and served in that capacity for eight months, when on account of his health failing, he was honorably discharged September, 1861. \u00a0He then returned to his farm, and has since been engaged in farming and stock raising. \u00a0On January 20, 1854, <b>Mr. ADKERSON<\/b> was united in marriage to <b>Miss Sallie SNEED<\/b>, a native of this county, and to them were born the following children: <b>Sallie M.<\/b> (deceased), <b>Ida, Ella, Katie N., George M., James A., John N., Mabel<\/b> and <b>Clinton<\/b>. \u00a0<b>Mr. ADKERSON <\/b>is a Democrat in politics, and served as deputy sheriff for four years in this county. \u00a0He is also a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and the balance of the family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. \u00a0<b>Mr. ADKERSON<\/b> is justly recognized as one of the leading citizens of the county.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Source:\u00a0History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson (Goodspeed, 1886).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Col. John H. ADKERSON, an enterprising farmer, was born in this county and State October 15, 1831, and is the son of James A. and Percilla (Jones) ADKERSON, both natives of Virginia. \u00a0The father was one of the early settlers of this county, coming here in 1820. \u00a0He was one of the leading farmers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15369,"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":[4309,45,4406,4418],"tags":[4310,2093],"class_list":{"0":"post-14281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-goodspeed-bios","8":"category-rutherford","9":"category-surname-a","10":"category-x_featured-image-yes","11":"tag-adkerson","12":"tag-sneed","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281","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=14281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14283,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281\/revisions\/14283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}