{"id":3945,"date":"2012-12-17T14:38:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:46:32","slug":"melton-john-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/melton-john-h\/","title":{"rendered":"MELTON, John H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Gassaway<\/p>\n<p><strong>MELTON, John H., <\/strong>banker, farmer and merchant; born in Cannon Co., Tenn., March 26, 1869; English descent; son of <strong>George G. <\/strong>and <strong>Martha (Walkup) MELTON; <\/strong>father was interested in farming, banking and merchandising; paternal grandparents <strong>James<\/strong> and <strong>Pollie (Elidge) MELTON<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>Robert<\/strong> and <strong>Sarah (Nealey) WALKUP<\/strong>; educated in common schools DeKalb Co., Tenn., and Liberty, Tenn.; graduating from the latter in 1886; in early life was a farmer, in 1885 became interested in mercantile business, and 1903 organized and became Cashier of Melton\u2019s Bank, Gassaway, Tenn.; married <strong>Tina HAWKINS<\/strong> Dec 22, 1892; member Masons and Odd Fellows (Past Grand); formerly Postmaster of Gassaway, Tenn.; notary public; member of the church of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Gassaway MELTON, John H., banker, farmer and merchant; born in Cannon Co., Tenn., March 26, 1869; English descent; son of George G. and Martha (Walkup) MELTON; father was interested in farming, banking and merchandising; paternal grandparents James and Pollie (Elidge) MELTON; maternal grandparents Robert and Sarah (Nealey) WALKUP; educated in common schools DeKalb Co., [&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":[20,96,82,4419],"tags":[1895,4389,1894,1896,1657],"class_list":{"0":"post-3945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cannon","7":"category-dekalb","8":"category-surname-m","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-elidge","11":"tag-hawkins","12":"tag-melton","13":"tag-nealey","14":"tag-walkup","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","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=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15658,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/15658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}