{"id":6131,"date":"2013-05-03T18:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T23:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:24","slug":"barksdale-william-randolph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/barksdale-william-randolph\/","title":{"rendered":"BARKSDALE, William Randolph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>BARKSDALE, William Randolph<\/strong>, cotton factor, hardwood lumber and grocer; born Murfreesboro, Tenn., Aug. 6, 1850; English-Scotch descent; son of <strong>William H. and Fannie (Baskette) BARKSDALE<\/strong>; paternal grandfather, <strong>Randolph BARKSDALE<\/strong>, maternal grandfather, <strong>Dr. William BASKETT<\/strong>; educated at Old Nottingham school near Somerville, Tenn.; began his career as clerk and bookkeeper in dry goods store; for twenty-six years he has been engaged in the wholesale grocery and cotton business, and seventeen years in lumber business as hardwood lumber manufacturer; married <strong>Eva STRANGE<\/strong>, March 2, 1877; member I.O.O.F., Business Men&#8217;s Club, Lumbermen&#8217;s Club (past president), and Country Club; Independent Democrat; director in First National Bank, Memphis, Tenn.; member of Congregational church.<\/p>\n<p>Editorial Note: \u00a0Baskett and Baskette spellings were as written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis BARKSDALE, William Randolph, cotton factor, hardwood lumber and grocer; born Murfreesboro, Tenn., Aug. 6, 1850; English-Scotch descent; son of William H. and Fannie (Baskette) BARKSDALE; paternal grandfather, Randolph BARKSDALE, maternal grandfather, Dr. William BASKETT; educated at Old Nottingham school near Somerville, Tenn.; began his career as clerk and bookkeeper in dry goods store; [&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":[798,3084,45,261,4405,4419],"tags":[1162,2535,2534,1328],"class_list":{"0":"post-6131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fayette","7":"category-old-nottingham-school","8":"category-rutherford","9":"category-shelby","10":"category-surname-b","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-barksdale","13":"tag-baskett","14":"tag-baskette","15":"tag-strange","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","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=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14657,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/14657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}