{"id":8591,"date":"2013-11-07T17:01:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=8591"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:55:46","slug":"singleton-william-rufus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/singleton-william-rufus\/","title":{"rendered":"SINGLETON, William Rufus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Murfreesboro<\/p>\n<p><strong>SINGLETON, William Rufus<\/strong>, bookkeeper; born Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 21, 1859; English descent; son of <strong>Stephen H. and Sarah M. (Tompkins) SINGLETON<\/strong>; father was a merchant and farmer; paternal grandparents, <strong>Hazeal and Lavinia (Hope) SINGLETON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, <strong>James M. and Kitty G. (Rucker) TOMPKINS<\/strong>; educated at Murfreesboro, Tenn.; in early life worked on farm, and clerked in store; married <strong>Margaret H. WOODS<\/strong>, Nov. 14, 1889; Democrat; deputy county court clerk of Rutherford Co., Tenn., 1885-98; election commissioner 1909; First Lieut. National Guard State of Tenn.; first elected city treasurer of Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1897, being elected every two years since then, and is the present incumbent; secretary and treasurer of Murfreesboro Water Works Co., and bookkeeper for Davis-Elam Gas &amp; Electric Co., Murfreesboro, Tenn.; member of Christian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Murfreesboro SINGLETON, William Rufus, bookkeeper; born Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 21, 1859; English descent; son of Stephen H. and Sarah M. (Tompkins) SINGLETON; father was a merchant and farmer; paternal grandparents, Hazeal and Lavinia (Hope) SINGLETON, maternal grandparents, James M. and Kitty G. (Rucker) TOMPKINS; educated at Murfreesboro, Tenn.; in early life worked on farm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[45,88,4419],"tags":[2322,1060,2672,3162,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-8591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rutherford","7":"category-surname-s","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-hope","10":"tag-rucker","11":"tag-singleton","12":"tag-tompkins","13":"tag-woods","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8592,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions\/8592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}