{"id":3398,"date":"2012-11-18T23:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:53:21","slug":"shelton-erasmus-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/shelton-erasmus-archer\/","title":{"rendered":"SHELTON, Erasmus Archer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Graysville<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHELTON, Erasmus Archer<\/strong>, physician; born Tazewell Co., Va., May 9, 1846; English and Scotch descent; son of <strong>Samuel F. and Permelia C. (Gregory) SHELTON<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer and minister; paternal grandparents <strong>Wesley and Emily (Hayden) SHELTON<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>John and Mary E. (Pig) GREGORY; <\/strong>received common school education; married <strong>Lydia J. UMBARGER<\/strong> Jan 21, 1868; member Masons, Knights of Pythias and Red Men; served in Confederate Army, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> North Carolina Regiment, <strong>Gen. Joseph E. JOHNSTON<\/strong>\u2019s command; was reared on a farm and was very young when entered the Confederate service; \u00a0returned from the war in 1865 in poverty and took up medicine as a profession; worked in day time and read medicine at night by pine knot light; entered the regular practice and never stopped long enough to finish up his medical course; there were few medical schools in the country when he read medicine; regular Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Graysville SHELTON, Erasmus Archer, physician; born Tazewell Co., Va., May 9, 1846; English and Scotch descent; son of Samuel F. and Permelia C. (Gregory) SHELTON; father\u2019s occupation farmer and minister; paternal grandparents Wesley and Emily (Hayden) SHELTON; maternal grandparents John and Mary E. (Pig) GREGORY; received common school education; married Lydia J. UMBARGER Jan [&hellip;]<\/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":[156,88,4419],"tags":[764,1699,1700,165,1701],"class_list":{"0":"post-3398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rhea","7":"category-surname-s","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-gregory","10":"tag-hayden","11":"tag-pig","12":"tag-shelton","13":"tag-umbarger","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","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=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15911,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/15911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}