{"id":1660,"date":"2012-10-28T23:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:02:49","slug":"caton-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/caton-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"CATON, Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Cosby<\/p>\n<p><strong>CATON, Thomas<\/strong>, minister of the Gospel, farmer; born in Roane Co., N. C., Dec. 24, 1819; English descent; son of <strong>Stephen and Susie (Dedmon) CATON<\/strong>; maternal grandfather <strong>Thomas DEDMON<\/strong>; educated in local schools of native county, and Saturday and Sunday school in Blount Co., Tenn.; began life as a farmer and blacksmith in his father\u2019s shop; licensed to preach Nov. 4, 1865; deacon Oct. 10, 1869, etc.; married <strong>Margaret MCGAHA<\/strong>; member of Methodist Episcopal church, Sunday School Union League; one time Whig, later Republican, and loyal to the Union 1861; First Lieutenant in early State Militia of Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Cosby CATON, Thomas, minister of the Gospel, farmer; born in Roane Co., N. C., Dec. 24, 1819; English descent; son of Stephen and Susie (Dedmon) CATON; maternal grandfather Thomas DEDMON; educated in local schools of native county, and Saturday and Sunday school in Blount Co., Tenn.; began life as a farmer and blacksmith in [&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":[17,27,4407,4419],"tags":[1347,1348,1345],"class_list":{"0":"post-1660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blount","7":"category-cocke","8":"category-surname-c","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-caton","11":"tag-dedmon","12":"tag-mcgaha","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14861,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/14861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}