City: Gravelhill<\/p>\n
GOOCH, John Roberts<\/strong>, merchant; born Gravelhill, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1870; son of William Andrew and Nancy (Murphy) GOOCH<\/strong>; in early life was a farmer boy; later clerked in store; received common school education; began business for himself March 2, 1896 with less than $400.00 capital in a small box Tenn.; is also Postmaster of Gravelhill house and now owns and operates a large mercantile establishment at Gravelhill, and has held that office since 1903; married Julia A. SPRINGER<\/strong> Nov. 28, 1894; member of Masons and Woodmen of the World; is Consul Commander of Gravelhill ,Tenn., Camp, W. O. W.<\/p>\n Editor\u2019s note: one line of this entry seems to be misplaced. It should probably read: \u201cbegan business for himself March 2, 1896 with less than $400.00 capital in a small box house and now owns and operates a large mercantile establishment at Gravelhill, Tenn.; is also Postmaster of Gravelhill\u00a0 and has held that office since 1903;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Gravelhill GOOCH, John Roberts, merchant; born Gravelhill, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1870; son of William Andrew and Nancy (Murphy) GOOCH; in early life was a farmer boy; later clerked in store; received common school education; began business for himself March 2, 1896 with less than $400.00 capital in a small box Tenn.; is also Postmaster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[1677,4411,216,4419],"tags":[875,1374,1695],"class_list":{"0":"post-3393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mcnairy","7":"category-surname-g","8":"category-washington","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-gooch","11":"tag-murphy","12":"tag-springer","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15148,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/15148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}