{"id":2325,"date":"2012-10-20T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:49:32","slug":"burnett-james-huff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/burnett-james-huff\/","title":{"rendered":"BURNETT, James Huff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Del Rio<\/p>\n<p><strong>BURNETT, James Huff<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>farmer and merchant; born Del Rio, Cocke Co., Tenn., July 21, 1859; French-Irish descent; son of <strong>James M. <\/strong>and<strong> Caroline (Huff) BURNETT<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>Swan P.<\/strong> and <strong>Francis (Bell) BURNETT<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, <strong>Stephen<\/strong> <strong>and Betsy (Carson) HUFF<\/strong>; educated Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn.; began life as a farmer and has acquired about 4,500 acres of farm and timber land in Tenn., and N. C.; engaged in the lumbering and mercantile business; President of Burnett Mercantile Co. (Inc)., of Del Rio Tenn.; Director and Stockholder in First National Bank, Newport, Tenn.; \u00a0married <strong>Lena Lee WELLS<\/strong> Dec. 30, 1890;\u00a0 member Baptist Church; Knights of Pythias; Republican; formerly postmaster Del Rio, Tenn., now postmaster at Huckleberry, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Del Rio BURNETT, James Huff, farmer and merchant; born Del Rio, Cocke Co., Tenn., July 21, 1859; French-Irish descent; son of James M. and Caroline (Huff) BURNETT; paternal grandparents Swan P. and Francis (Bell) BURNETT, maternal grandparents, Stephen and Betsy (Carson) HUFF; educated Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn.; began life as a farmer and [&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":[337,27,4405,4419],"tags":[269,1187,1188,973,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-2325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carson-newman-college","7":"category-cocke","8":"category-surname-b","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bell","11":"tag-burnett","12":"tag-carson","13":"tag-huff","14":"tag-wells","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","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=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14774,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/14774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}