{"id":363,"date":"2012-07-01T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=363"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:51:17","slug":"ransom-sr-b-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/ransom-sr-b-f\/","title":{"rendered":"RANSOM Sr., B.F."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bellbuckle &#8212;<strong> RANSOM Sr., B.F<\/strong>., farmer; born Rutherford Co., Tenn., Dec. 14, 1819; English and Irish descent; son of <strong>Benjamin C. and Sarah (Jaratt) RANSOM<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>Richard and Cissiah (Portice) RANSOM<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>Thomas and Susannah (Thompson) JARRATT<\/strong>; received common school education; devoted himself to farming in early youth; all of his life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits; was a soldier in the Cherokee and Creek war (Indian) in 1838; was turnpike commissioner for state of Tenn., in 1857; married three times, first <strong>Lavonia JORDAN<\/strong> Oct. 1848, second <strong>Maggie FUGITT<\/strong> Sept. 1881, third <strong>Elizabeth SLATER,<\/strong> Feb. 1883; Democrat (Regular); member Methodist church.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellbuckle &#8212; RANSOM Sr., B.F., farmer; born Rutherford Co., Tenn., Dec. 14, 1819; English and Irish descent; son of Benjamin C. and Sarah (Jaratt) RANSOM; paternal grandparents Richard and Cissiah (Portice) RANSOM; maternal grandparents Thomas and Susannah (Thompson) JARRATT; received common school education; devoted himself to farming in early youth; all of his life has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[14,45,87,4419],"tags":[306,303,305,304,302,307,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bedford","7":"category-rutherford","8":"category-surname-r","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-fugitt","11":"tag-jaratt","12":"tag-jordan","13":"tag-portice","14":"tag-ransom","15":"tag-slater","16":"tag-thompson","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15832,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/15832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}