{"id":7777,"date":"2013-09-12T23:52:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T04:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:29:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:29:06","slug":"ely-john-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/ely-john-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"ELY, John Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>ELY, John Anderson<\/strong><b>, <\/b>cotton factor; born Vaiden, Miss., Dec. 9, 1870; English Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Richard A.<\/strong> and <strong>Mary Frances (Anderson) ELY<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation planter; paternal grandparents, <strong>Thomas<\/strong> and <strong>Mary (Madden) ELY<\/strong><b>, <\/b>\u00a0maternal grandparents<b>, <\/b><strong>Joel<\/strong> and <strong>Frances (Maddox) ANDERSON<\/strong>; educated in city schools of Vaiden, Miss., and\u00a0 A. M. College, Starkville, Miss.; began his career as clerk in U. S. Engineer\u2019s office in Memphis, Tenn.; married <strong>Sadie CANNON<\/strong>, Oct. 27, 1897; member Chickasaw Club; Democrat; member firm Lesser-Ely Cotton Co., cotton factors and Humphreys Cannon &amp; Co., coffee importers, Memphis Tenn.; member Baptist church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis ELY, John Anderson, cotton factor; born Vaiden, Miss., Dec. 9, 1870; English Scotch-Irish descent; son of Richard A. and Mary Frances (Anderson) ELY; father\u2019s occupation planter; paternal grandparents, Thomas and Mary (Madden) ELY, \u00a0maternal grandparents, Joel and Frances (Maddox) ANDERSON; educated in city schools of Vaiden, Miss., and\u00a0 A. M. College, Starkville, Miss.; [&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":[261,4409,4419],"tags":[4318,4325,1974,1407,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-7777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-e","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-anderson","10":"tag-cannon","11":"tag-ely","12":"tag-madden","13":"tag-maddox","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777","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=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}