City:\u00a0 <\/b>Martin<\/p>\n
TURNER, Thos. Lee<\/b>, editor of \u201cMail\u201d; born Jackson, Tenn., Jan. 6, 1863; English descent; son of Wm. C. and Martha (Nesbitt) TURNER<\/b>; father engaged in farming, milling and stock raising; paternal grandparents, James and Tabitha (Billingsly) TURNER<\/b>, maternal grandparents Robert and Sarah (Jordan) NESBIT<\/b>; received education at Milan and Knoxville, Tenn.; married Meda E. CAYCE<\/b> daughter of Elder S. F. CAYCE<\/b>, a leading minister of the Primitive Baptist church, May 27, 1891, who died May 9, 1911; member K. of P., having held several offices in that lodge; Democrat; Alderman for six years, after which time refused to make the race, but was unanimously re-elected by the city council on the resignation of a member on March 9, 1911, which office he now holds; second Lieutenant of State Guards, Milan, Tenn.; member of Baptist Church; early in life worked in mill; at the tender age of fourteen engaged in the printing business, and is now a member of the firm of the \u201cMail,\u201d a secular paper, \u201cYouth\u2019s Guardian Friend,\u201d a paper for children and \u201cPrimitive Baptist,\u201d a religious paper; director in People\u2019s Bank and Martin Overall and Glove Factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
City:\u00a0 Martin TURNER, Thos. Lee, editor of \u201cMail\u201d; born Jackson, Tenn., Jan. 6, 1863; English descent; son of Wm. C. and Martha (Nesbitt) TURNER; father engaged in farming, milling and stock raising; paternal grandparents, James and Tabitha (Billingsly) TURNER, maternal grandparents Robert and Sarah (Jordan) NESBIT; received education at Milan and Knoxville, Tenn.; married Meda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"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":[4412,818,4419],"tags":[2948,2646,305,2947,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-5910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-t","7":"category-weakley","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-billingsly","10":"tag-cayce","11":"tag-jordan","12":"tag-nesbitt","13":"tag-turner","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15255,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions\/15255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}