{"id":2331,"date":"2012-10-20T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T18:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:59:19","slug":"tyson-benjamin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/tyson-benjamin\/","title":{"rendered":"TYSON, Benjamin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Denmark<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYSON, Benjamin<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>farmer; born Haywood Co., Tenn., Oct. 4, 1847; Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0 <strong>Benjamin<\/strong> and <strong>Pamela (Moore) TYSON; <\/strong>\u00a0father was a merchant and farmer, who came to Tenn., from North Carolina; educated in the local schools of Haywood and Madison Co\u2019s., Tenn.; began life as a clerk in dry goods store at Brownsville, Tenn., and later in the drug business, Denmark, Tenn.; married <strong>Lelia BOND<\/strong> June 26, 1879; Democrat; represented Madison Co., Tenn., in the 41<sup>st<\/sup> General Assembly 1879, later justice of the peace in 5<sup>th<\/sup> Civil District Madison Co., Tenn., in all, thirty-six years without intermission; member Board Education, Madison Co., past four years; member Presbyterian Church, and Ruling Elder in same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Denmark TYSON, Benjamin, farmer; born Haywood Co., Tenn., Oct. 4, 1847; Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0 Benjamin and Pamela (Moore) TYSON; \u00a0father was a merchant and farmer, who came to Tenn., from North Carolina; educated in the local schools of Haywood and Madison Co\u2019s., Tenn.; began life as a clerk in dry goods store at [&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":[59,36,4412,4419],"tags":[355,4344,1192],"class_list":{"0":"post-2331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-haywood","7":"category-madison","8":"category-surname-t","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bond","11":"tag-moore","12":"tag-tyson","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","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=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15258,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/15258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}