{"id":3707,"date":"2012-12-15T14:10:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T20:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:34:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:34:33","slug":"gaw-roscoe-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/gaw-roscoe-c\/","title":{"rendered":"GAW, Roscoe C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Gainesboro<\/p>\n<p><strong>GAW, Roscoe C., <\/strong>public official; born near Gainesboro, Jackson, Co., Tenn., July 6, 1882; Scotch-Irish descent; son of \u00a0<strong>Armel <\/strong>and <strong>Clarissa (Purcell) GAW<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal<strong> <\/strong>grandparents <strong>Elias <\/strong>and<strong> Jane GAW<\/strong>; educated in the common schools Jackson Co., Tenn.; at the age of fifteen began teaching public schools Jackson Co., Tenn., and continued in this profession until 1903, when he began the study of law in the office of <strong>Congressman Cordell HULL<\/strong> and <strong>John J. GORE<\/strong> surveyor of customs for the port of Nashville, when he was elected to the office of Circuit Court Clerk of Jackson Co., Tenn., in 1906; reelected Circuit Court Clerk Aug. 1, 1910; member of Tanney Hill Lodge No. 133 F. &amp; A. M. and is W. M. of said Lodge; also Gainesboro Lodge No. 234 I. O. O. F. and treasurer of same, and M. W. of A., Rock Island, Ill.; Democrat; member of the Church of Christ; member Quarles Sadler Dry goods Co., Gainesboro, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Gainesboro GAW, Roscoe C., public official; born near Gainesboro, Jackson, Co., Tenn., July 6, 1882; Scotch-Irish descent; son of \u00a0Armel and Clarissa (Purcell) GAW; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Elias and Jane GAW; educated in the common schools Jackson Co., Tenn.; at the age of fifteen began teaching public schools Jackson Co., Tenn., and [&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":[804,4411,4419],"tags":[1844,270,497,1845],"class_list":{"0":"post-3707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jackson","7":"category-surname-g","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-gaw","10":"tag-gore","11":"tag-hull","12":"tag-purcell","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","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=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15134,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions\/15134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}