{"id":3176,"date":"2012-11-10T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:03:36","slug":"clay-thomas-eakin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/clay-thomas-eakin\/","title":{"rendered":"CLAY, Thomas Eakin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Franklin<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLAY, Thomas Eakin, <\/strong>educator, born in Shelbyville, Tenn., May 21, 1855; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Silas Webb<\/strong> and <strong>Ellen (Nevins) CLAY<\/strong>; received common school education Athens, Ala., and graduated in academic course from Edgefield Male Academy June 15, 1879; in early life engaged in farming, later became a school teacher; in 1885 elected principal of Robertson Academy, Davidson Co., then the oldest school in Tenn.; has been engaged in educational work for thirty-one years, is at present Superintendent of Public Schools for the City of Franklin, Tenn.; has real estate interests in Nashville; married Lula <strong>RIGGAN<\/strong> Feb. 5, 1891; member of I. O. O. O. F.; Democrat (Independent); member\u00a0 M. E. church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Franklin CLAY, Thomas Eakin, educator, born in Shelbyville, Tenn., May 21, 1855; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Silas Webb and Ellen (Nevins) CLAY; received common school education Athens, Ala., and graduated in academic course from Edgefield Male Academy June 15, 1879; in early life engaged in farming, later became a school teacher; in 1885 elected [&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":[14,2010,2011,261,4407,232,4419],"tags":[4330,1617,1618],"class_list":{"0":"post-3176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bedford","7":"category-edgefield-male-academy","8":"category-robertson-academy","9":"category-shelby","10":"category-surname-c","11":"category-williamson","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-clay","14":"tag-nevins","15":"tag-riggan","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","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=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14886,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/14886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}