Town: Centerville<\/p>\n
BATES, Douglas Thompson<\/strong>, attorney at law; born Centreville, Tenn., May 25, 1882; Norman French, Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of Jasper Alonzo and Cordelia Emma (Clagett) BATES<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, lawyer; paternal grandfather Lewis BATES<\/strong>, paternal grandmother Agnes (Lancaster) BATES<\/strong>, maternal grandfather William George CLAGETT<\/strong>, maternal grandmother Elizabeth (Hornbeak) CLAGETT<\/strong>; educated at Centreville Training School and graduated with degree of LL. B. from Cumberland University June 1903; began life on a farm; later worked in publisher\u2019s office, and later mine foreman; married Annie Willie HUDDLESTON<\/strong> Nov. 6, 1907; member of Knights of Pythias, Masons and Modern Woodmen of America; past chancellor and grand representative of Knights of Pythias, junior warden Masons, and past consul M. W. of A.; Democrat; county attorney of Hickman county from May, 1909 to Sept., 1910 appointed by county judge and did not stand for election; lieutenant Co. I, National Guards State of Tennessee 1904\u201305, resigned; member of Cumberland Presbyterian church; engaged in the practice of law at Centreville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Town: Centerville BATES, Douglas Thompson, attorney at law; born Centreville, Tenn., May 25, 1882; Norman French, Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of Jasper Alonzo and Cordelia Emma (Clagett) BATES; father\u2019s occupation, lawyer; paternal grandfather Lewis BATES, paternal grandmother Agnes (Lancaster) BATES, maternal grandfather William George CLAGETT, maternal grandmother Elizabeth (Hornbeak) CLAGETT; educated at Centreville Training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[595,31,190,4405,4419],"tags":[370,596,598,527,597],"class_list":{"0":"post-813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-centreville-training-school","7":"category-cumberland-university","8":"category-hickman","9":"category-surname-b","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-bates","12":"tag-clagett","13":"tag-hornbeak","14":"tag-huddleston","15":"tag-lancaster","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14667,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/14667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}