{"id":9922,"date":"2013-12-31T20:02:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T02:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:57:10","slug":"talbert-walter-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/talbert-walter-w\/","title":{"rendered":"TALBERT, Walter W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>TALBERT, Walter W.<\/strong>, mining operator; born Grenada, Miss., July 18, 1859; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>John R. and Maria Louisa (Talbert) TALBERT<\/strong>; educated in the free schools of Memphis, Tenn. and Gathright&#8217;s University of Gohlson, Noxubee Co., Miss., graduated from latter; in early life he was a clerk in grocery store; married twice, first in St. Louis, Mo., 1883, second, in Memphis, Tenn., 1900; member of K.P., W.O.W.; Democrat; elected and served as State Senator from Shelby Co., Tenn., 55th general assembly; candidate for Mayor of Memphis and defeated by E.H. Crump; member of Bluff City Greys, 1878, defending life and property during yellow fever scourge, and member of Chickasaw Guards from 1879-1893; twice won the National Championship as the best drilled soldier, Gen. W.T. Sherman presented championship in 1879.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis TALBERT, Walter W., mining operator; born Grenada, Miss., July 18, 1859; Scotch-Irish descent; son of John R. and Maria Louisa (Talbert) TALBERT; educated in the free schools of Memphis, Tenn. and Gathright&#8217;s University of Gohlson, Noxubee Co., Miss., graduated from latter; in early life he was a clerk in grocery store; married twice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[261,4412,4062,4419],"tags":[3328],"class_list":{"0":"post-9922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-t","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-talbert","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12922,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions\/12922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}