{"id":2023,"date":"2012-09-10T17:52:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:55:57","slug":"smith-john-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/smith-john-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, John Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Decaturville<\/p>\n<p><strong>SMITH, John Thomas <\/strong>farmer; born Decatur Co., Tenn., Dec. 22, 1866; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>James Noah and Missouri (Stallings) Smith; <\/strong>father\u2019s occupation, farmer, merchant, cotton and peanut broker; paternal grandparents, <strong>William<\/strong> and <strong>Martha \u00a0(Weatherly) SMITH<\/strong>; maternal grandparents, <strong>Benedic<\/strong> and <strong>Sallie (Choat) STALLINGS<\/strong>; received common school education; began his career as clerk in general store, and later entered mercantile business, and was senior member of firm of Smith Bros., General Merchandise, New Era, Tenn., 1892-99, and same style firm at Peters Landing, Tenn., 1899-1902, and that of Smith &amp; Smith at Vise Landing, to 1907; at present engaged in farming; married twice, first <strong>Nanie V. TURNBO<\/strong>, April 14, 1887, second, <strong>Ida M. TORBET<\/strong>, Sept. 20, 1897; member Brownsport Lodge No. 476 F &amp; A. M. , Treas., Vise Camp No.418 W. O. W., Banker; Democrat (Regular); member of M. E. Church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Decaturville SMITH, John Thomas farmer; born Decatur Co., Tenn., Dec. 22, 1866; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James Noah and Missouri (Stallings) Smith; father\u2019s occupation, farmer, merchant, cotton and peanut broker; paternal grandparents, William and Martha \u00a0(Weatherly) SMITH; maternal grandparents, Benedic and Sallie (Choat) STALLINGS; received common school education; began his career as clerk in [&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":[797,88,4419],"tags":[1018,4356,1016,1020,1019,1017],"class_list":{"0":"post-2023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-decatur","7":"category-surname-s","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-choat","10":"tag-smith","11":"tag-stallings","12":"tag-torbet","13":"tag-turnbo","14":"tag-weatherly","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","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=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15939,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/15939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}