{"id":758,"date":"2012-08-13T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T06:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=758"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:47:41","slug":"morris-gideon-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/morris-gideon-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"MORRIS, Gideon Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Cedar Hill<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>MORRIS, Gideon Lee, <\/strong>farmer; born near Cedar Hill, Tenn., Feb. 25, 1866; Scotch-Irish descent; son of<strong> Thomas E. <\/strong>and<strong> Elizabeth (Mathews) MORRIS, <\/strong>father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandfather<strong> Jesse MORRIS<\/strong>; paternal grandmother<strong> Mary (Nichols) MORRIS, <\/strong>maternal grandfather <strong>Thomas B. MATHEWS<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>maternal grandmother <strong>Fannie POWELL<\/strong>; educated common schools and Bell Academy Springfield, Tenn.; graduated Commercial College Kentucky University 1888; married <strong>Fannie BENTON<\/strong> May 21, 1890; member Knights of Pythias; early business occupation, traveling salesman for Walter A. Wood Machine Co., and later teaching school; member of board of education for Robertson county and also present representative for Robertson county in the lower house and general assembly of Tennessee. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Cedar Hill MORRIS, Gideon Lee, farmer; born near Cedar Hill, Tenn., Feb. 25, 1866; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Thomas E. and Elizabeth (Mathews) MORRIS, father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandfather Jesse MORRIS; paternal grandmother Mary (Nichols) MORRIS, maternal grandfather Thomas B. MATHEWS, maternal grandmother Fannie POWELL; educated common schools and Bell Academy Springfield, Tenn.; graduated [&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":[522,5,82,4419],"tags":[4320,458,465,523,353],"class_list":{"0":"post-758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bell-academy","7":"category-robertson","8":"category-surname-m","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-benton","11":"tag-mathews","12":"tag-morris","13":"tag-nichols","14":"tag-powell","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15694,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/15694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}