{"id":6303,"date":"2013-05-05T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T23:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:42:38","slug":"lewis-james-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/lewis-james-w\/","title":{"rendered":"LEWIS, James W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Linden<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEWIS, James W.<\/strong>, public official; born Tom\u2019s Creek, Perry Co., Tenn., May 12, 1848; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>William K. and Susan J. (Coleman) LEWIS<\/strong>; fathers\u2019 <i>\/sic\/<\/i> occupation, farming; paternal grandparents <strong>Aaron and Polly (Dickson) LEWIS<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Abner COLEMAN<\/strong>, maternal grandmother was a <strong>Miss SPARKS<\/strong> prior to her marriage; received common school education; in early life he was a farmer, also taught school, and engaged in the retail mercantile business; married twice, first, <strong>Rebeccah Josephine SUTTON<\/strong>, 1876, second <strong>Minnie J. DICKSON<\/strong>, 1898; member F. &amp; A. M., R. A. M.; served as secretary of Linden Lodge No. 210, Linden Chapter No. 156; served four full terms as Circuit Court Clerk; at present he is Clerk and Master of Chancery Court, appointed by Chancellor <strong>E. ?\u00a0BULLOCK<\/strong>, Jan., 1908; Magistrate; member of M. E. Church, South.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The second initial for Bullock is not clear.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Linden LEWIS, James W., public official; born Tom\u2019s Creek, Perry Co., Tenn., May 12, 1848; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William K. and Susan J. (Coleman) LEWIS; fathers\u2019 \/sic\/ occupation, farming; paternal grandparents Aaron and Polly (Dickson) LEWIS, maternal grandfather Abner COLEMAN, maternal grandmother was a Miss SPARKS prior to her marriage; received common school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[54,81,4419],"tags":[2052,558,4357,4394,1535,682],"class_list":{"0":"post-6303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-perry","7":"category-surname-l","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-bullock","10":"tag-coleman","11":"tag-dickson","12":"tag-lewis","13":"tag-sparks","14":"tag-sutton","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8221,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions\/8221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}