{"id":522,"date":"2012-08-08T01:25:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T06:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=522"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:58:46","slug":"thornton-nicholas-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/thornton-nicholas-perkins\/","title":{"rendered":"THORNTON, Nicholas Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Brownsville<\/p>\n<p><strong>THORNTON, Nicholas Perkins<\/strong>, farmer; born Brownsville, Tenn., Aug. 1, 1859; English and Russian descent; son of <strong>Burwell and Lucy (Perkins) THORNTON<\/strong>; his father was a physician; paternal grandparents <strong>Frank and Annie (Boyd) THORNTON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>N. T. and Lucy (Turner) PERKINS<\/strong>; received common school education and early in life clerked in a grocery store at Brownsville, Tenn.; left an orphan at 9 years of age, lived with his grandfather, who died when he was 18 years of age; he then became a farmer; married <strong>Ruth TAYLOR<\/strong> Nov. 13, 1881; is now farming and breeding stock; Democrat; member M. E. church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Brownsville THORNTON, Nicholas Perkins, farmer; born Brownsville, Tenn., Aug. 1, 1859; English and Russian descent; son of Burwell and Lucy (Perkins) THORNTON; his father was a physician; paternal grandparents Frank and Annie (Boyd) THORNTON, maternal grandparents N. T. and Lucy (Turner) PERKINS; received common school education and early in life clerked in a grocery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[59,4412,4419],"tags":[425,424,150,423,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-haywood","7":"category-surname-t","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-boyd","10":"tag-perkins","11":"tag-taylor","12":"tag-thornton","13":"tag-turner","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15238,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/15238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}