{"id":76,"date":"2011-10-22T23:15:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T04:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=76"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:52:31","slug":"roy-rob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/roy-rob\/","title":{"rendered":"ROY, Rob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ROY, Rob<\/strong> &#8212; Editor and Publisher; born Alexandria, Tenn., Aug. 5, 1876; Scotch descent; son of <strong>J.F. and Helen (Yeargin) ROY<\/strong>; paternal grandfather <strong>Beverly ROY<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Jane (Lawrence) ROY<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>R.W. YEARGIN<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Salena (Vick) YEARGIN<\/strong>; educated Webb&#8217;s School Bell Buckle; married <strong>Carrie SIMPSON<\/strong> Jan. 18, 1899; member Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias (C.C.) treasurer Tennessee Press Association, and chairman Masonic Board of Trustees; Democrat; Election Commissioner three times; elected secretary of DeKalb Co., A. &amp; M. Association at the age of 19, oldest fair in the State, and has held position for 16 years; has been editor and publisher of the Alexandria Times for sixteen years; voted by gathering of newspaper man in state of Tennessee; director of the Bank of Alexandria; owner of several business houses Alexandria (Tenn.), secretary, general manager and principal owner of the Alexandria (Tenn.) Fair Association; member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROY, Rob &#8212; Editor and Publisher; born Alexandria, Tenn., Aug. 5, 1876; Scotch descent; son of J.F. and Helen (Yeargin) ROY; paternal grandfather Beverly ROY, paternal grandmother Jane (Lawrence) ROY, maternal grandfather R.W. YEARGIN, maternal grandmother Salena (Vick) YEARGIN; educated Webb&#8217;s School Bell Buckle; married Carrie SIMPSON Jan. 18, 1899; member Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[96,87,98,4062,4419],"tags":[4340,99,101,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-76","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dekalb","7":"category-surname-r","8":"category-webbs-school","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-lawrence","12":"tag-roy","13":"tag-vick","14":"tag-yeargin","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13946,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/13946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}