{"id":713,"date":"2012-08-15T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=713"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:24:52","slug":"cotton-james-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/cotton-james-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"COTTON, James Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0City: Carthage<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>COTTON, James Thomas<\/strong>, minister of the Gospel; born Brentwood, Tenn., June 27, 1867; son of <strong>John A.<\/strong> and <strong>Rachel P. (TUKCER) COTTON<\/strong>; educated common schools, Wall &amp; Mooney\u2019s Academy, Culleoka, Tenn., and Vanderbilt University; graduated from Wall &amp; Mooney\u2019s Academy June, 1890; converted to Christianity 1883; licensed to preach Jan., 1888; in early life worked on a farm, then taught school two years at Camden, Tenn., prior to his matriculation in Vanderbilt University; spent seven years in region, returned to Tenn. Nov., 1904; became pastor at Prospect Methodist church, then Methodist church, South Columbia, then Greenbrier, Tenn., then Carthage, Tenn., which pulpit he now fills; married first <strong>Alice WEAVER<\/strong> Dec 3, 1898 second <strong>Pearl CALVERT<\/strong> May 30, 1906; member M. E. church, South.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0City: Carthage COTTON, James Thomas, minister of the Gospel; born Brentwood, Tenn., June 27, 1867; son of John A. and Rachel P. (TUKCER) COTTON; educated common schools, Wall &amp; Mooney\u2019s Academy, Culleoka, Tenn., and Vanderbilt University; graduated from Wall &amp; Mooney\u2019s Academy June, 1890; converted to Christianity 1883; licensed to preach Jan., 1888; in early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[15,180,5,197,4407,7,482,4419],"tags":[485,483,386,484],"class_list":{"0":"post-713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-benton","7":"category-maury","8":"category-robertson","9":"category-smith","10":"category-surname-c","11":"category-vanderbilt-university","12":"category-wall-mooneys-academy","13":"category-x_featured-image-no","14":"tag-calvert","15":"tag-cotton","16":"tag-tucker","17":"tag-weaver","18":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14920,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/14920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}