{"id":9714,"date":"2013-12-07T00:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T06:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:14","slug":"pentecost-richard-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/pentecost-richard-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"PENTECOST, Richard Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Memphis\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>PENTECOST, Richard Henry, <\/b>contractor; born Charlotte Co., Va., Oct. 29, 1855; English descent; son of <strong>Richard J.<\/strong> and <strong>Mary Jane (Davison) PENTECOST<\/strong>; educated in local schools of Campbell and Pittsylvania Counties, Va.; in early life was connected with a railroad in maintenance department; prior to 1881 he was a planter in Va.; continued in railroad service as roadmaster with N. C. &amp; St. L. R. R.; engaged in quarrying stone and gravel for building purposes in Decatur Co., Tenn., after leaving railroad service; at present he is contractor and dealer in building materials; married <strong>Mary Jane E. COLLINS<\/strong>, Feb. 6, 1879; member of Masons (Blue Lodge),\u00a0 W. O. W., and Business Men&#8217;s Club; Democrat; Christian Scientist.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who&#8217;s 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>City: Memphis\u00a0 PENTECOST, Richard Henry, contractor; born Charlotte Co., Va., Oct. 29, 1855; English descent; son of Richard J. and Mary Jane (Davison) PENTECOST; educated in local schools of Campbell and Pittsylvania Counties, Va.; in early life was connected with a railroad in maintenance department; prior to 1881 he was a planter in Va.; continued [&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":[261,85,4062,4419],"tags":[942,1315,3272],"class_list":{"0":"post-9714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-p","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-collins","11":"tag-davison","12":"tag-pentecost","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714","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=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12743,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions\/12743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}