{"id":7384,"date":"2013-07-01T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:37:56","slug":"horton-johnston-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/horton-johnston-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"HORTON, Johnston Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>HORTON, Johnston Bright<\/strong>, wholesale grain business; born Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 13, 1880; English and Scotch descent; son of <strong>W.H. and Lilla Belle (Bright) HORTON<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, grain merchant; paternal grandparents <strong>Claiborne M. and Malvina (Harrison) HORTON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents<strong> Johnston and Sarah (Slack) BRIGHT<\/strong>; educated in public schools of Memphis, Tenn.; in early life worked in traffic department of railroad; married <strong>Marguerite Rembert MOON<\/strong>, Oct. 11, 1910; member Chickasaw Club; Democrat; retired Lt. Col. of Tenn. National Guard; at age of 18 enlisted as private in 2d Tenn. regiment of Volunteers at outbreak of Spanish-American war, served ten months, afterwards helped organize Forrest Rifles of Memphis, becoming 2d Lieut., 1st Lieut. and Captain in succession; in 1906 elected Major of 2d battalion comprising four companies of Tenn. National Guard and commanded that battalion during the quelling of &#8220;night rider&#8221; depredations at and around Reelfoot Lake; member of Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis HORTON, Johnston Bright, wholesale grain business; born Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 13, 1880; English and Scotch descent; son of W.H. and Lilla Belle (Bright) HORTON; father&#8217;s occupation, grain merchant; paternal grandparents Claiborne M. and Malvina (Harrison) HORTON, maternal grandparents Johnston and Sarah (Slack) BRIGHT; educated in public schools of Memphis, Tenn.; in early life [&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":[261,77,4419],"tags":[1389,487,1647,825,2199],"class_list":{"0":"post-7384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-h","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-bright","10":"tag-harrison","11":"tag-horton","12":"tag-moon","13":"tag-slack","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","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=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9878,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions\/9878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}