{"id":1761,"date":"2012-10-07T23:31:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T04:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:47:38","slug":"blackburn-william-wirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/blackburn-william-wirt\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKBURN, William Wirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dandridge<\/p>\n<p><strong>BLACKBURN, William Wirt, <\/strong>farmer; born near Dandridge, Tenn., April 9, 1838; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Benjamin A.<\/strong> and Isabella M. (Caldwell) BLACKBURN;\u00a0 father\u2019s occupation, farmer;\u00a0 paternal grandparents <strong>John<\/strong> and <strong>Elizabeth (McGerk) BLACKBURN<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>William<\/strong> and <strong>Nellie (Moore) CALDWELL<\/strong>; enlisted as private in Co. C, 9<sup>th<\/sup> Tenn. Cav. U. S. A., May 6, 1863; promoted to 1<sup>st<\/sup> Lieut. \u00a0and R. C. S. Sept. 25, 1864; married twice, first <strong>Harriet E. McSPADDEN<\/strong>, Jan. 13, 1869, second, <strong>Harriet R. MILLER<\/strong>, Oct. 14, 1874; all of his business life has been devoted to farming; has been interested in public school work for forty years; served as Trustee of Maury Academy, Dandridge, Tenn., for twelve years, also chairman of the board; Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian church for 35 or 40 years; has served as chairman of Board of Trustees of Hopewell Presbyterian church thirty-four years and is also treasurer of same; his father, grandfather and great grandfather were all Ruling Elders in the Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dandridge BLACKBURN, William Wirt, farmer; born near Dandridge, Tenn., April 9, 1838; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Benjamin A. and Isabella M. (Caldwell) BLACKBURN;\u00a0 father\u2019s occupation, farmer;\u00a0 paternal grandparents John and Elizabeth (McGerk) BLACKBURN, maternal grandparents William and Nellie (Moore) CALDWELL; enlisted as private in Co. C, 9th Tenn. Cav. U. S. A., May 6, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[148,1576,4405,4419],"tags":[1235,681,1577,1578,793,4344],"class_list":{"0":"post-1761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jefferson","7":"category-maury-academy","8":"category-surname-b","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-blackburn","11":"tag-caldwell","12":"tag-mcgerk","13":"tag-mcspadden","14":"tag-miller","15":"tag-moore","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14694,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/14694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}