{"id":2921,"date":"2012-11-04T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:35:33","slug":"griffitts-jacob-lafayette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/griffitts-jacob-lafayette\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIFFITTS, Jacob Lafayette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dunlap<\/p>\n<p><strong>GRIFFITTS, Jacob Lafayette, <\/strong>clergyman; born in Loudon Co., Tenn., Nov. 14, 1869; Welsh and Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>John Wesley<\/strong> and <strong>Mary E. (Donaldson) GRIFFITTS;<\/strong> paternal grandparents, <strong>Emanuel <\/strong>and <strong>Rachel (Jenkins) GRIFFITTS<\/strong>; maternal grandparents<strong> James H. and Lucinda (Matthews) DONALDSON; <\/strong>educated at Unitia Academy Unitia, Tenn., and graduated from Moody Bible Institute Chicago, Ill., 1900; began life in the mercantile business; joined the Holston Conference of M. E. church, South, at Morristown, Tenn., 1903; ordained Deacon, 1903, ordained Elder 1910 Chattanooga, Tenn.; served the following charges, viz: Decatur, Dunlap and Mountain City, all in Tenn.; married <strong>Permelia CABLE<\/strong> Sept. 3, 1902; member M. E. Church, South; F. &amp; A. M. Knights of Pythias, I. O. O. F., Woodmen of the World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dunlap GRIFFITTS, Jacob Lafayette, clergyman; born in Loudon Co., Tenn., Nov. 14, 1869; Welsh and Scotch-Irish descent; son of John Wesley and Mary E. (Donaldson) GRIFFITTS; paternal grandparents, Emanuel and Rachel (Jenkins) GRIFFITTS; maternal grandparents James H. and Lucinda (Matthews) DONALDSON; educated at Unitia Academy Unitia, Tenn., and graduated from Moody Bible Institute Chicago, [&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":[151,624,674,811,4411,1991,4419],"tags":[1499,533,1498,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-2921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hamilton","7":"category-loudon","8":"category-marion","9":"category-sequatchie","10":"category-surname-g","11":"category-unitia-academy","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-cable","14":"tag-donaldson","15":"tag-griffitts","16":"tag-jenkins","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15178,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/15178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}