{"id":5954,"date":"2013-04-14T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T20:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:49:32","slug":"burns-james-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/burns-james-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"BURNS, James Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie<\/p>\n<p><strong>BURNS, James Thomas<\/strong>, retail merchant; born near McLemoresville, Tenn., May 5, 1849; son of <strong>John and Margaret (Patton) BURNS<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, <strong>Richard and &#8212;&#8212;- (Newbill) BURNS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>William and Mary (Wright) PATTON<\/strong>; educated at Bethel College, McLemoresville, Tenn., and University of Miss.; worked on farm until 1871, entered the mercantile business in 1875 at Trezevant, Tenn.; married <strong>Mary Lee HARRIS<\/strong>, March 27, 1878; member of Knights of Pythias, and United Order of the Golden Cross; Democrat; Vice Pres. and Gen. Mgr. of the Moore &amp; Burns Co., General Merchandise, McKenzie, Tenn.; member of Presbyterian church, U.S.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie BURNS, James Thomas, retail merchant; born near McLemoresville, Tenn., May 5, 1849; son of John and Margaret (Patton) BURNS; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, Richard and &#8212;&#8212;- (Newbill) BURNS, maternal grandparents William and Mary (Wright) PATTON; educated at Bethel College, McLemoresville, Tenn., and University of Miss.; worked on farm until 1871, entered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[1760,21,363,4405,818,4419],"tags":[1447,994,2467,11,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-5954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bethel-college","7":"category-carroll","8":"category-henry","9":"category-surname-b","10":"category-weakley","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-burns","13":"tag-harris","14":"tag-newbill","15":"tag-patton","16":"tag-wright","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14778,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions\/14778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}