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RAY, James Nathan<\/strong>, business man and dealer in live stock; born near Greenfield Tenn., in 1851; Irish descent; son of Bennett and Cyrena (Harral) RAY<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer also County Judge; paternal grandparents\u2019 Nathan and Emily (Brown) RAY<\/strong>; maternal grandparents John and Elizabeth (Gilliam) HARRAL<\/strong>; received common school education; in early life was constable and later entered the livery business in which he is now engaged, he is also a large dealer in live stock, has dealt also in real estate and was formerly in the lumber and stave business; formerly held the offices of City Marshall, School Director and City Alderman of Greenfield, Tenn.; he is now Mayor of that city; married Iona V. COOPER<\/strong> Nov. 15, 1879; member of Knights of Pythias; Democrat (regular); member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Greenfield RAY, James Nathan, business man and dealer in live stock; born near Greenfield Tenn., in 1851; Irish descent; son of Bennett and Cyrena (Harral) RAY; father\u2019s occupation farmer also County Judge; paternal grandparents\u2019 Nathan and Emily (Brown) RAY; maternal grandparents John and Elizabeth (Gilliam) HARRAL; received common school education; in early life was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[87,818,4419],"tags":[208,437,1748,1747,1746],"class_list":{"0":"post-3429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-r","7":"category-weakley","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-brown","10":"tag-cooper","11":"tag-gilliam","12":"tag-harral","13":"tag-ray","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15835,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions\/15835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}